Month: November 2020

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has requested PM Modi to permit central government jobs candidates to write competitive examinations in respective regional languages.   Rao, in a letter to Modi said, at present all the competitive exams for posts in central government, central PSUs, Railways, defence services and nationalised banks are held in only Hindi and English and those who are neither from those speaking states nor have been educated in either of the languages, face difficulties and have to suffer serious disadvantage in the competitive exams.   “In order…

Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a New York judge to pay $120 million (₹890 crore) in damages to a woman who blamed her asbestos-related cancer on use of the company’s baby powder.   Justice Gerald Lebovits of the state supreme court in Manhattan reduced the payout from the $325 million a jury awarded Donna Olson, 67, and Robert Olson, 65, in May 2019 following a 14-week trial. J&J faces almost 22,000 claims that its powders caused cancer.   The judge approved the lowered payout on Wednesday, court records…

It seems the COVID-19, has bought a fortune to the hospital chains in the country. A question arises when there is no vaccine is not available, then from where the cost is coming. Hence people are share to go to hospitals. There are thousands of cases been seen across the country.   Formulating effective laws to counter bio-terrorism is one of the important lessons to be learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic, a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health has said in a report, “The Outbreak of Pandemic COVID-19 And its Management.” Among other things,…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has provided free tuberculosis (TB) screening services to more than 50,000 patients, as at November 2020, through its nine eHealth Centers (eHCs) located across Assam, Chandigarh, and Uttar Pradesh. Last year, in support of the government’s target to make India TB-free by 2025, HPE signed the TB pledge with USAID to utilize its network of eHealth Centers to screen 50,000 symptomatic patients for TB. The aim was to target the “missing TB” cases, namely people who unknowingly carry and spread the disease.…

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has to approve the plan submitted by a consortium of UAE-based investor Murari Lal Jalan and London based asset management firm Kalrock Capital before they become the new owners of India’s oldest surviving Jet Airways.   admitted debt of Jet Airways was Rs 8,000 crore and the resolution professional of Jet Airways has submitted the successful resolution plan of Kalrock Capital and Murari Lal Jalan for the bankrupt airline at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).   Lenders to Jet Airways will get 9.5…

EU candidate Maia Sandu won Moldova’s presidential runoff with 57.75% of the vote, according to the results declared by the country’s central election commission.   Incumbent President Igor Dodon, who was given the explicit backing of the Kremlin ahead of the poll, could cover 42.25% of the votes.   Dodon said on Monday he would concede defeat if the courts find nothing inappropriate occurred in the voting process. “If the courts confirm that everything is ok, then we will put a full stop here,” Dodon said.   “I congratulate her…

The early result from Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine trial was declared as stunningly impressive by the United States’ top infectious disease scientist Anthony Fauci. He called the findings an emphatic validation of experimental mRNA technology that some had doubted.   “I must admit that I would have been satisfied with 70 or at the most 75 percent efficacy,” he said.   “The idea that we have a 94.5 percent effective vaccine is stunningly impressive. It is really a spectacular result that I don’t think anybody had anticipated would be this good.”…

FM Nirmala Sitharaman has ordered all banks to ensure that all accounts of their customers are linked with Aadhaar numbers of respective customers by March 31, 2021.   The financial inclusion story is not over and banks still have inclusion to carry forward, said she. There are many accounts that are not linked with Aadhaar yet.   “… by March 31, 2021, every account should have a PAN where needed and where applicable, and Aadhaar in every one of your accounts,” Sitharaman said while addressing the 73rd annual general meeting of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).   She said banks should discourage non-digital payments and should bank on promotion of digital payments techniques and also adopt many of the…

In a recent development on the investment in Odisha, Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) said it would manufacture 10 types of vaccines including Malaria and COVID- 19 in its upcoming unit in Odisha.   BBIL is a multi-dimensional biotechnology organisation specializing in manufacture of vaccines and bio-therapeutics. Dr Krishna Ella , Chairman and Managing Director ,BBIL announced this while attending a meeting with Odisha chief secretary A K Tripathy and other state government officials through digital medium.   The company has taken up the development and production of new or…