Tag: Centre
SC Declines Plea To Set Up NEET Exam Centres Abroad
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a plea for directions to the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) for setting up NEET exam centres abroad for the benefit of students in foreign countries in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. ....
Centre To SC: No Removal Of 48,000 Jhuggis Along Railway Tracks For Now
The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that for the time being there will be no removal of 48,000 slums along the railway tracks in Delhi.....
'Govt Cannot Muzzle The Voice Of Farmers': Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav was put under undeclared house arrest on Monday morning and by afternoon he was arrested and taken away by Uttar Pradesh Police. ....
SC Stays Farms Laws' Implementation: Key Points From Order
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of the three laws - the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020; and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, until a committee of experts it set up talks to the government and the farmers and reports back to it ....
Centre Allows 100% Occupancy At Cinema Halls From Feb 1
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has allowed 100% occupancy in multiplexes and cinema halls beginning February, it said in a statement on Saturday. This should come as a relief to movie theatres that were shut for seven months last year owing to coronavirus pandemic and have been struggling with low attendance and few new offerings since reopening.....
Fire At Mumbai Covid Centre, Over 70 Patients Rescued
At least two persons have reportedly perished and around 73 evacuated after a major fire engulfed the Sunrise Hospital located within the Dreamz Mall in Mumbai's Bhandup, early on Friday, officials said. ....
Centre Lists Out 7-step Strategy To Deal With Covid Spike At District-level
Amid the surge in coronavirus cases, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday wrote to Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories seeking action at the district levels, including public health measures, focus on mortality reduction and 100 per cent saturation vaccination of priority age groups. ....
150-bed Covid Care Centre Opened At Bengaluru Airport
A 150-bed Covid care centre with oxygen supply was opened at the Bengaluru airport on the city's northern outskirts to treat asymptomatic patients with mild hypoxia, said the operator on Wednesday. ....
Shocking That CBSE Will Hold Exams, Priyanka Gandhi Writes To Education Minister
After the CBSE board issued a circular stating that it is going ahead with the Board exams scheduled in May, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has written to Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank that its 'shocking' that the CBSE has decided to go ahead with exams despite parents expressing fears and 'apprehensions' about assembling at exam centres in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic. She said these 'apprehensions' are not 'Unreasonable', so exams should be cancelled.....
78 Afghan Evacuees Released From ITBP Quarantine Centre In Delhi
After completing 14 days of essential quarantine period at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) centre at Chhawla camp here, all the 78 evacuees from Afghanistan were allowed to go to their respective places from the facility on Tuesday. ....
