Krishna District Collector Md Imtiaz launches lottery to boost occupancy at its Covid care centres, where less than 10% of 3,200 beds are currently occupied.
Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital is hiring residents for Rs 25,000-35,000 less than pre-pandemic stipend. Doctors across states say govts are insensitive to their financial instability.
Kejriwal government has launched an Integrated Command & Control Centre. But it neither has real-time data, nor is its dashboard accessible to the public yet.
State database shows nearly 500 vacant beds, but a check with a few hospitals shows these numbers aren't entirely reliable. This at a time experts warn the Covid wave is yet to peak in Bengal.
Multiple committees — some formed at the start of the pandemic, and one predating it — are overseeing India's Covid response on many fronts, from vaccines to medical infra.
A Modi govt programme to vaccinate livestock for foot-and-mouth disease hit a wall in 2020 after all the vaccine batches were recalled from states/UTs over quality concerns.
Under the PM-Kisan scheme, the govt is providing Rs 6,000 to 14 crore farmers annually. The amount is directly transferred into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
I&B ministry says its daily meeting are routine and are meant to review functioning of the media units, says it is not aimed at countering any 'adverse media publicity'.
My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.
SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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