Year: 2020

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant was attending a virtual event organised by industry body FICCI. Addressing the attendees he said, digital infrastructure has become indispensable to the functioning of society and India can create USD 1 trillion of economic value using digital technology by 2025.   The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an impetus to the ever-expanding digital infrastructure.   “Digital infrastructure has become indispensable to the functioning of society… India can create USD 1 trillion of economic value using digital technology by 2025,” Kant said. He further added that digital…

Congress veteran Ahmed Patel passes away, who was hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus last month, passed away in early hours of Wednesday aged 71 due to multiple organ failures, his son Faisal tweeted.   Ahmed Patel had been at Medanta Hospital since his health worsened after a Covid infection. In a tweet at around 4 am, his son, Faisal Patel, said that the Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat died at 3.30 am.   Mourning the death of Mr Patel, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said she has lost an “irreplaceable comrade, a faithful…

The recent announcement on a 26 per cent limit on foreign direct investment in the digital media sector can hamper its growth potential, this may lead to an unfair advantage for global players, according to digital news companies and experts.   The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, on November 16, issued a public notice asking “entities involved in uploading/streaming of news and current affairs through digital media, to comply with the decision of Union Government on September 18, 2019, which had permitted 26 per cent FDI under government-approval route”, that…

PM Modi has decided to chair a meeting with the CMs of the respective states via video conferencing, looking at the increasing cases graph in the country. During the day-long meeting with the chief ministers, PM Modi will review the Covid situation and as per their suggestions, a possible decision is awaited to be taken.   Earlier a few states have partially announced lockdowns by imposing night curfews and Section 144, it is possible that PM Modi might announce another lockdown in states where the cases are rising at a…

TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday spit fire at Union environment, and information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar for releasing a charge-sheet with 132 charges against the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led state government.   Rama Rao said, “over 132 crore charge-sheets should be filed against the BJP for failing to give Rs 15 lakh to each Indian, as had been promised during the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Another 12 crore charge-sheets should be filed against the BJP by youth of this country for not creating two…

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.…