-The Hindu Business Line Red flags about some inconsistencies and the resulting legal inefficacy of normative provisions of the Act Former Union Agriculture Minister and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday to raise his apprehensions about the formation of Cooperation Ministry and the amendments in Banking Regulation Act. Pawar urged Modi to ensure that the co-operative principles laid down in the Constitution should not be sacrificed at...
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Odisha seeks 95% vaccine allocation for State, 5% to private hospitals -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Uptake from 25% allocation to private hospitals is less because of their low presence, CM tells PM Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday demanded an increase in the allocation of vaccines for the State to 95%, and a reduction in the share available to private hospitals to 5%, in order to speed up the COVID-19 inoculation drive in Odisha. In a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah...
More »How did low-income women fare during the pandemic? -Gaurav Gupta
-IndiaTogether.org A survey of nearly 15,000 women in the aftermath of the pandemic-induced lockdown last year reveals specific ways in which women are pARTicularly vulnerable to risks. This could provide valuable input for new interventions, writes Gaurav Gupta. After India's first nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020 a flurry of important, rapid research was conducted by multiple private, public, and social sector organisations to understand the effects of the pandemic....
More »Spending on R&D will determine India’s future progress, key message of the latest UNESCO Science Report
Scientific knowledge has immensely helped in combating the dreadful coronavirus and its spread. Within a record short period of time, scientists (including virologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, etc.) and their research outputs helped the commoners to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 and how it spreads from one individual to the next one. Common people have now come to know how simple techniques and behavioural change like the wearing of N95 masks, maintaining...
More »With fewer migrants returning in COVID 2.0, U.P. says many stayed back after 1st wave
-The Hindu U.P. was the only State to do a skill mapping exercise of returning migrants last year, says an official Just four lakh migrant workers returned to Uttar Pradesh during the second COVID-19 wave this year, compared to 40 lakh workers after the national lockdown of 2020, indicating many of these workers may not have returned to their earlier workplaces after the first wave and got gainfully employed in U.P., top...
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