A Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hemant Gupta, suggested that Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker P Prajapati interact with the rebel Congress MLAs through video link or the court can appoint an observer to allay the fear that the legislators are in captivity. The Speaker, however, refused to accept the apex court’s proposal. The bench said it can create conditions to ensure that “exercise of volition” of the rebel MLAs is “truly voluntary”. “We can appoint an observer to Bengaluru or some other place so that the rebel MLAs can connect with the Speaker through video conferencing…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 pm today regarding the ongoing coronavirus outbreak across the world and the efforts to combat it. The address comes after a high-level meeting the Prime Minister chaired in the evening to review the efforts to contain COVID-19. The country has seen 151 cases of coronavirus so far and three patients have died. https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1240319599930773506?s=20 To control the spread of the virus, the government has drawn up a plan to sensitise people and spread awareness about the issue. Sources said the participants at the meeting discussed ways to further strengthen the preparedness…
A case was registered on Wednesday against the owner of a furniture shop at Bhiwandi in Thane district for issuing a misleading advertisement which claimed that mattresses sold at his shop cure the coronavirus. The accused, whose name was not disclosed by the police, owns two furniture showrooms in Bhiwandi. On March 13, he allegedly published an advertisement in a Gujarati newspaper that the novel coronavirus can be cured or prevented by sleeping on a special kind of mattress which he sold. Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajkumar Shinde said a First Information Report (FIR) was registered on a complaint by…
Delhi government employee association on Wednesday met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and demanded closure of all government offices for a week in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Umesh Batra, general secretary of the Delhi government Welfare Association, said around 2.5 lakh people are employed with the Delhi government and most of them are engaged in public dealings. In its memorandum, the association said, “The precaution taken by the Maharashtra government should be adopted by the Delhi government by closing all its offices for seven days.” Batra said the association has requested the chief minister that if the government is…
Yes Bank on Wednesday said it has resumed operations, and all its banking services are available for its customers now. “Our banking services are now operational. You can now experience the full suite of our services. Thank you for your patience and co-operation. #YESforYOU @RBI @FinMinIndia,” the lender tweeted. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had put a restriction on the lender on March 5, under which the bank’s customers were allowed to withdraw up to Rs 50,000 till April 3. The government notified the Yes Bank reconstruction scheme last week.
No document will be collected from anyone during the exercise to be carried out to update the National Population Register, Union minister Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday. Rai also said in Rajya Sabha that till now, the central government has not taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) at the national level. “No document is to be collected during the updation of NPR 2020,” Rai, the Union Minister of State for Home, said replying to a written question. The NPR data will be collected along with the house-listing phase of the census to be conducted…
All five candidates for as many Rajya Sabha seats in Bihar were on Wednesday declared elected unopposed as no other nominations were filed, an official said. Bihar assembly secretary-cum-returning officer Bateshwar Nath Pandey said that certificates were handed over to all the five candidates after the deadline for withdrawal of nomination papers at 3 pm. Two candidates each were from the Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and one from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Since no other candidate had filed nomination papers, the voting, which was scheduled on March 26, was done away with. Elections…
Consequent to the separation of duties between Department of Defence (DoD) and Department of Military Affairs (DMA), the first meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) under the chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh was held with the Acquisition Wing being the Secretariat of the DAC. This would lead to better coordination and faster processing of cases with the Acquisition wing being in the overall charge of the Capital acquisition process. The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas indigenously-designed by Aircraft Development Agency (ADA) under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is going…
Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh PokhriyalNishank chaired a meeting on Research in Indian Traditional Knowledge Systems in New Delhi today. Minister of State for HRD Shri Sanjay Dhotre was present in the meeting. Dr Sonal Man Singh, Member of Parliament; Principal Scientific Advisor, Shri K. Vijay Raghavan; Secretary, MHRD, Shri Amit Khare; Secretary AYUSH, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha and senior officials of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Ministry of HRD were present in the meeting. Eminent persons from the field of Arts, Science, Culture, Medicine, Technology who have demonstrated special…
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Hyderabad has reported that Oceansat Satellite data from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are used to prepare the Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ) advisories on the potential rich fishing areas and provide to the sea faring fishermen in all states. ISRO has developed the methodology for the generation of fishery advisories and transfer to INCOIS since 2002 as an operational service for providing PFZ advisories. This service utilizes data on chlorophyll concentration (Chl) obtained from ISRO’s Oceansat-2 satellite and the sea surface temperature from National Oceanic Atmospheric…