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Existing PAN holders do not need to apply afresh under PAN 2.0: Tax dept
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Odisha CM announces smart health cards for 3.5 crore people
Beneficiaries of national and state food security schemes, and Annapurna and Antyodaya initiatives will get the cards under which women can avail treatment up to Rs 10 lakh per year, and other family members will get the benefit up to Rs 5 lakh each.
Noting that the initiative will cover 3.5 crore people in 96 lakh families in a phased manner, Patnaik claimed that Odisha is the first state in the country to provide such smart health cards.
He said that the beneficiaries can avail health services in more than 200 hospital chains across the country including Odisha and it will strengthen the health security of the people of the state.
FM to meet CEOs of public sector banks on Aug 25 to review financial performance
Interestingly, this would be the first physical review meeting since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year. The meeting is expected to take stock of the banking sector, progress on restructuring the 2.0 scheme announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), sources said, adding that banks may be nudged to push loan growth in productive sectors.
The revamped Rs 4.5 lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) would also be reviewed during the meeting likely to be held in Mumbai, sources said.
Ker Police comes up with country’s first Drone Forensic Lab & Research Centre
Vijayan said that the Kerala government is working towards reducing the socio-economic inequalities, which still prevail after 75 years of Indian independence, and also to ensure protection of the environment and improving education in the state,
Higher than national average, per capita income of Telangana doubled in 7 years:KCR
”Likewise, when the state was formed in the 2013-2014 financial year our State Per Capita Income was Rs. 1,12,216 whereas now Telangana’s State Per Capita Income has reached Rs.2,37,632. Presently, our country’s Per Capita Income is recorded as Rs. 1,28,829. It is to be noticed that the Telangana State Per Capita Income is more than that of the country Per Capita Income,” he said.
All possible help being extended to people in 26 flood ravaged districts: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
All possible help is being extended to the people. Daily review meetings are being conducted along with the issuance of safety guidelines. People have been evacuated from affected areas and provided with relief aid,” said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Centre considering using MGNREGA to counter ill-effects of climate change: Giriraj
Under the scheme, he said, apart from growing fruit trees on panchayat land, ponds will also be dugout.
These ponds will be used for water conservation, he told reporters
Lower death rate pushes elderly population growth to 13.8 cr in 2021:NSO Study
Elderly in study means all those people who are of the age of 60 years and above. ”According to the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections for India and States 2011-2036, there are nearly 138 million (13.8 crore) elderly persons in India in 2021 comprising 67 million males and 71 million females,” the NSO study ‘Elderly in India 2021’ said.
New method for modelling COVID-19 spread incorporates real-time data on people’s movements
“Our work opens the door to a larger integration between epidemiological models and real-world data to, through the use of supercomputers, determine best public policies to mitigate the effects of a pandemic,” Ritabrata Dutta of Warwick University, UK said.
India’s chronic disease burden helped fuel Covid-19’s brutal waves
For years India has faced an escalating non-communicable disease crisis as its middle-class expands and leads a more sedentary and affluent lifestyle. That makes them susceptible to ailments such as diabetes and heart disease that account for almost two-thirds of all deaths in the country. Those existing conditions may have allowed the coronavirus to do more damage, boosting cases and fatalities and potentially fueling the near collapse of India’s health system.
LS passes amendment bills on homoeopathy, National Commission for Indian System of Medicine
The National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Bill, 2021, proposes to amend the National Commission for Homoeopathy Act, 2020 to provide a medical education system that improves access to quality and affordable medical education.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021, seeks to repeal the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 and help make available the Indian system of medicine professionals across the country.