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Cannot pay Rs 4 lakh compensation to Covid victims, Centre informs SC
” If ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh is given for every person, who lost life due to COVID-19, the entire amount of SDRF may possibly be spent on this alone, and indeed the total expenditure may go up further”, said the affidavit.
The MHA contended that unlike floods, earthquake, cyclone, etc, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of crores of rupees have been spent by Centre and states on prevention, testing, treatment, quarantine, hospitalization, medicines and vaccination, etc and it is still continuing.
Air India has time till mid-July to challenge Cairn Energy’s lawsuit
Air India is controlled by the Indian government so much that they are “alter egos”, Cairn had said in the lawsuit filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The court should hold the airline company liable for the arbitration award, the company had said.
Cabinet note issued for 100% FDI in oil PSUs marked for disinvestment
According to the proposal, foreign investment up to 100 per cent under the automatic route would be allowed in cases where an ‘in-principle’ approval for disinvestment of a PSU has been granted by the government.
Factbox: How central banks are responding to the issue of climate change
US Fed chair Jerome Powell while he agreed climate change could have deep ramifications for inflation, employment, productivity and other economic measures, he told a conference in June: “Climate change is not something we directly consider in setting monetary policy”.
Cooperation from insurance companies for road safety activities is negligible:Gadkari
”Around 1.5 lakh persons die due to road accidents (every year)… My internal target is before 2024, we will reduce deaths and accidents by 50 per cent,” the Road Transport and Highways Minister said.
Around 50 per cent of road accidents are due to road engineering problems, he pointed out.
India:Amid unlock, Doctors warn of ‘Worse Than Second Wave’ situation if norms not followed
Medical experts in mid-May had concurred that it was lockdown majorly that had brought down the count of daily cases, while cautioning that the severity of cases was still the same.
Labour rights still fighting for recognition after ten years of ILO adoption
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated working conditions that were already very poor, the report says. Domestic workers were more vulnerable to the fallout from the pandemic because of long-standing gaps in labour and social protection. This particularly affected the more than 60 million domestic workers in the informal economy.
Govt asks ministries to target 20% reduction in controllable expenditure
However, expenditure related to containment of the pandemic is excluded from the scope of this order.
The memorandum said, ministries should aim to control expenditures like overtime allowance, rewards, domestic and foreign travel, office expenses, rents, rates and taxes, royalty.
Heavyweight bureaucrats to fight out for the IRDA chairmanship
Among the serving and retired IAS(Indian Administrative Service) officials who have applied for the top regulatory job of the Indian insurance industry are- B.V.R. Subrahmanyam(1987 batch ) who recently joined as secretary, Ministry of Commerce after serving as a chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir(J&K) since 2018,Manoj Parida(1986 batch)), advisor to the administrator of Chandigarh, VP Joy(1987), chief secretary, Kerala, Chhabilendra Roul(1985), former secretary, Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Fertilizers and Chemicals, Preeti Sudan, (1983-batch) who had retired as the union health secretary in July 2020.,Anup Wadhawan, who retired as the secretary, ministry of commerce in May end
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.