The 79-year-old Zuma cited his age, unspecified medical conditions and the upcoming Covid third wave to delay prison sentence imposed on him for contempt of court, sources said.
Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan said that the text-based negotiations is the way forward and it means that the members have broadly accepted the objective behind waiver proposal.
India along with 61 co-sponsors submitted a revised proposal in May on TRIPS waiver for all WTO members regarding prevention, containment, and treatment of Covid.
Ramgobin has been sentenced to 7 years in jail by a Durban court in Rs 3.22 crore fraud and forgery case and was refused leave to appeal both the conviction and sentence.
US is learnt to have told both India & South Africa that while it supports temporary TRIPS waiver, it will 'only' be applicable to Covid vaccines and not to medicines, ventilators etc.
National Testing Agency’s charter is to assess the 'competence of candidates' for admission and recruitment, but NEET and UGC-NET firestorms have put its own competency in question.
The report predicts net emigration of 4,300 millionaires in 2024, lower than the outflow in 2023 & 2022. Congress has raised concerns about the outflow of HNIs from the country.
Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.
Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.
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