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Aspirational Districts outperform non-ADs in pushing development in India: UNDP

The report, which includes a comparison of Aspirational Districts (ADs) with non-aspirational districts, indicates that ADs have outperformed non-ADs by substantial margins, given the increased focus through monitoring real-time data, convergence across government programmes and schemes, and receiving the benefits of the Aspirational Districts Programme.
The ADP(Aspirational Districts Programme) was launched by the India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in 2018, with the objective of expediting the transformation of 112 most backward districts across 28 states through convergence across government departments. 

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IMA to hold country-wide protest on June 18 against assault of doctors

The Indian Medical Association has termed ”extremely disturbing” a series of violence against doctors in the last two weeks in Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and other places.

It demanded the implementation of the central hospital and Health Care Professionals Protection Act with IPC and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), standardization and augmentation of security in each hospital, and declaring hospitals as protected zones among others.

719 doctors have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the second wave of the COVID pandemic with Bihar recording the maximum fatalities.

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Policybazaar gets insurance broking licence from IRDAI

With this development, the company will surrender its web-aggregator licence to Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and undertake business including insurance aggregation under the broking umbrella.
The broking licence will allow the company to venture into segments which it could not do in the past like claims assistance, offline services, and establish Points of Presence network.

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CoWIN hack and data leak is baseless: Govt

Dr R S Sharma, Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration, has clarified that “the claims of so-called hackers on the dark web, relating to alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system and data leak, is baseless. We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with Co-WIN.”

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PM Narendra Modi calls for ‘one earth one health’ approach for pandemic at G7 summit

Sources said Modi’s call for adopting a “one earth, one health” approach received support from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

They said Australia and several other countries came out in strong support of Modi’s call to waive patents on coronavirus vaccines to boost their production. India and South Africa have come out with the proposal at the World Trade Organisation.

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Road accidents in India are like silent pandemic: Rajnath Singh

Addressing the ‘Karmayogis’ of Border Road Organisation (BRO) via video conferencing, the Union Defence Minister said, “Accidents on the roads are a cause of great concern for us today. It is a matter of great surprise that our country has less than 3 per cent of the world’s total vehicles, but accidents are close to 11 per cent. Every year around 4.5-5 lakh accidents and 1.5 lakh unfortunate deaths occur in the country. It is not less than a silent pandemic.”

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