(PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue directions to states for payment of salaries and providing necessary quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers engaged in treating COVID-19 patients. The government told the court it would issue the necessary directions. A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah said that doctors and healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients should not be denied quarantine facilities. The top court asked the Centre to file a compliance report within four weeks on payment of salaries and quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers and warned that non-compliance…
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(Livemint) The coronavirus pandemic in India witnessed a new peak with the states registering 12,881 fresh cases in a single day — the highest so far. The total number of coronavirus patients in the country zoomed to 366,946. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi — three worst-affected states — continued to record high number cornavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Uttar Pradesh and Haryana recorded the biggest jump in COVID-19 count on Tuesday. The death toll in the country jumped to 12,237. At least 334 people succumbed to death in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, India saw a huge jump…
(FE) Scotching rumours of more lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the time has come for ‘unlock 2.0’ and taking further steps to minimise sufferings of people, including migrant workers. Holding a meeting via video conferencing with the second batch of chief ministers (CMs) and lieutenant governors of 15 states and Union Territories to discuss the road ahead, Modi said inflation has been kept under control and economic performance are showing signs of revival after reduction in restrictions. He asked the states to take steps to boost infrastructure and construction-related work as well as remain alert to effectively tackle the…
(FE) India is stepping on the gas today to lay a strong foundation for energy security in the country while providing large-scale employment and huge opportunities for investment in the coal sector. In line with the prime minister’s vision to build Aatmanirbhar Bharat, India is marking a fundamental shift to unleash the coal sector as commercial-mine auction kickstarts. The coal sector is at the cusp of a paradigm shift today as we reorient our approach from focussing on revenue maximisation to making maximum coal available in the market. The move will not only help address India’s coal production needs, but…
(NDTV) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today he wanted to assure the nation that the sacrifice of Indian soldiers killed in a clash with Chinese troops at Galwan Valley in Ladakh would not go in vain and India, while peace-loving, is capable of giving a fitting reply if provoked. “No one should be in any doubt. India wants peace but when provoked, it is capable of giving a fitting reply, be it any situation,” PM Modi warned in a strong message to China after the border fight on Monday that marked the giant escalation after weeks of tension. “The country will be…
(Zee News) India was elected to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member from the Asia-Pacific category for a two-year term on Wednesday (June 17) night. India was elected unopposed as one of the non-permanent member of the UNSC after winning 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. The minimum requirement to get elected was 128 votes. India has served seven times earlier as non-permanent member of the UNSC in 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992 and 2011-2012. “We have received overwhelming support and we we deeply humbled by the tremendous confidence that the member states of the United…
(HT) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold an all-party meeting on Monday on the coronavirus crisis in Delhi. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 11 am. Delhi Congress chief Anil Kumar said on Sunday that he would attend a meeting and sought suggestions from the people that he would mention there. “I have received information about the meeting from the home ministry. I will attend the meeting and people can give suggestions which I will place before the home minister of the country,” news agency PTI quoted Kumar as saying. Kumar said the Congress has been giving positive…
(FE) The employees’ union at SAIL’s corporate office at Lodhi Road in Delhi has demanded an independent inquiry into the death of the company’s personnel director, Atul Srivastava. In a statement, issued in the wee hours of June 11, SAIL had attributed Srivastava’s death on June 10 night to cardiac arrest, and said the deceased was Covid-19 negative. “There is a clear attempt to suppress facts and there is a deliberate attempt to show the death of Late Shri Srivastava as a death due to natural causes. Further, we have come to know that the death certificate issued by concerned agencies…
(LiveMint) The states added over 11,000 fresh coronavirus infections for the third straight day. The total number of coronavirus cases in India increased to 332,424. Maharashtra continued to record over 3,000 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Tamil Nadu and Delhi also saw an explosion of new cases on Sunday. At least 307 deaths from the COVID-19 infection were reported in the last 24 hours. The deadly novel virus killed 9,520 people in the country. There were 153,106 active coronavirus patients in India, according to the data released by ministry of health and family welfare. On the positive side, over 1.69…
(ET) State-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) lost 638 MT of crude oil production from 66 producing wells and 0.46 MMSCMD of natural gas from three gas wells due to blockades by the local people and various students organisations in two districts of Assam, an OIL official said. A senior OIL official said that as the fire fighters, the NDRF and engineers intensified their efforts to douse the oil well fire in Assam’s Tinsukia district on the fifth day on Saturday, various students organisations and other associations forced OIL to stop its operations in many drilling locations and nine work-over locations in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts. Security forces in large…