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Suspended website promoting e-pharmacies on Aarogya Setu app, Centre informs HC
The Centre’s submission came on a plea seeking to de-link from Aarogya Setu mobile app, the website — www.aarogyasetumitr.in — as it was acting as a marketing tool for e-pharmacies only.
SC extends order of no coercive action against employers for non-payment of full wages
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah reserved the verdict on a batch of petitions filed by various companies challenging the circular of the Ministry of Home Affairs issued on March 29 asking the employers to pay full wages to the employees during the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In the proceedings conducted through video conferencing, the top court said there was a concern that workmen should not be left without pay, but there may be a situation where the industry may not have money to pay and hence, the balancing has to be done.
Govt sets up empowered group of secretaries to attract investments to India
The group would comprise Niti Aayog CEO and secretaries from the DPIIT, Department of Commerce, Department of Revenue, Department of Economic Affairs and the concerned department head. Cabinet Secretary will be the chairperson and DPIIT secretary will be the member convenor
SC to decide if divorced daughter has same right to freedom fighter family pension as unmarried one
Is a divorced woman entitled to her freedom fighter father’s family pension like an unmarried or widowed daughter?
A high court said “yes”, while another ruled: “No. It is not a bounty.” The Supreme Court has now agreed to settle the question.
Decide corruption cases in time involving retiring bank, govt officials: CVC
“Further, it was also conveyed that all such retirement cases should be received by the first week of the month of superannuation of the officer(s) concerned,” said the directive, issued to secretaries of central government departments and the chairman and managing directors of public sector banks, undertakings and autonomous organisations.
MHA extends nationwide lockdown till May 31,new guidelines issued
In the new norms, the MHA has also clarified that states to make final call on passenger movement/zoning during. However it has now permitted inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses, provided that consent is given by all states/UTs involved. States/UTs have been given the authority to decide on the intra-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses.
It has further prohibited activities like domestic/international air travel, metro rail services, schools/colleges and other educational institutions, hotels/restaurants and other hospitality services except for those housing emergency service workers or being used as quarantine facilities. Restaurants will be allowed to operate kitchens for home delivery of food items.
BBB to interview 5 sr GMs on May 11 to select CMD of Orientel Insurance
The general mangers who have been shortlisted by the ministry of finance(MoF)are-SN Rajeswari,New India Assurance(NIA) Dinesh Waghela(OIC), Sobha Reddy, National Insurance Company(NIC),Deepak Godbole,GIC Re, Madhulika Bhaskar, GIC Re.
COVID-19 Pandemic:“None of us is safe until all”says UN Chief
“Comprehensive, coordinated public health measures are critical to slow transmission and to save lives. But even countries that have taken such steps remain in jeopardy. And the virus is still likely to strike many countries that are least able to cope. In an interconnected world, none of us is safe until all of us are safe,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said
Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials
“We’ve been working on [reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative,” Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department told Reuters.
The pandemic has highlighted China’s key role in the supply chain for generic drugs here that account for the majority of prescriptions in the United States. It has also shown China’s dominance in goods like here the thermal cameras needed to test workers for fevers, and its importance in food supplies.
Indian govt brushes off Indian tax officers’ proposal for coronavirus tax on super rich
Finance Ministry sources said that neither IRS Association nor any group of officers mentioned in report were ever asked by the government to give any report on the subject. It was not part of their duty to prepare such a report and taking personal views to the media constituted an act of indiscipline, the sources said.
The report, dated April 23, said that “In times like these, the so called ‘super rich’ have a higher obligation towards ensuring the larger public good”. It also suggested a surcharge for foreign companies with a permanent establishment in India.