-Scroll.in The RBI had first flagged serious lapses in the bank’s governance in 2018. The Centre invested Rs 250 crore with private lender Yes Bank in the financial year 2019-’20 even though the Reserve Bank of India had deemed the bank as risky in 2018, shows the financial statement of the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. The investment in Yes Bank Fixed Deposit Receipts was made even as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last...
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NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands higher wages, more working days, employee insurance in letter to PM
-National Herald It has requested Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually for each job card holding individual Flagging issues being faced by crores of MGNREGA workers, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has requested the Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually...
More »India’s first bird flu death: Back to zoonotic diseases -Vibha Varshney
-Down to Earth The disease has been on India’s radar since 2006; need to strengthen disease surveillance, train workforce and build robust laboratories The death of an 11-year-old boy from Haryana at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences due to Avian influenza — the first such fatality in the country — has stressed the need to respond to zoonotic diseases in a timely manner. Experts have flagged the emergence and re-emergence of...
More »Sharad Pawar Meets PM Modi, Flags Amit Shah's New Ministry -Akhilesh Sharma and Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com Apart from meeting PM Modi, Sharad Pawar, 80, also wrote him a letter, flagging concerns on the Ministry of Cooperation. New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's residence. During the meeting which lasted for about 50 minutes, the veteran politician raised concerns about the newly-formed Ministry of Cooperation which is headed by Amit Shah, and farmers' issues, sources...
More »Activists flag focus on criminalisation over welfare in draft anti-trafficking bill
-The Hindu Existing laws on juvenile justice, bonded labour and POCSO sufficient, say experts. The emphasis on criminalisation and policing instead of welfare measures in the new proposed anti-trafficking Bill makes it anti-migrants and anti-sex workers, warn experts. The Ministry of Women and Child Development recently placed the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021, in the public domain and sought stakeholders' comments till July 14. The Bill is also scheduled...
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