Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a drug peddler anD recovered Poppy straw in south Kashmir district of Kulgam, a police spokesman said.
He said on a tip-off, a police party from Police Station (PS) Qazigund arrested a drug peddler and recovered 10.2 kg of poppy straw and 98 Spasmo Proxyvon capsules from his possession.
A case FIR No. 152/2021 U/S 8/15, 21 NDPS Act stands registered in PS Qazigund and further investigation taken up, he said.
(Agencies)
Puducherry, Political parties here are gearing up themselves to face the local body election in the Union Territory after a gap of 10 years.
It may be noted that for about 38 years local body elections were not held after 1968 and it was held in 2006.
The tenure of the elected representatives ended in July 2011.
Mr Perumal a CPI(M) functionary moved the Madras High Court against the government for not taking initiatives to hold local body election and the Court directed the government to hold the same.
However, one Ananthalakshmi filed a petition before the Madras High Court praying that ward delimitation be held on the basis of 2011 census and reservation for women and the Court ordered to hold the poll after completing all the formalities.
Meanwhile, one Balaji moved the Supreme Court against the decision to hold election and the Apex Court taking note that local body election was not held for long, ordered to hold it within four months.
Following this, Mr.Roy P Thomas was appointed as the State Election Commissioner and works for the election was speeded up.
The Municipal and commune panchayats wards were delimited on the basis of population. There are five municipalities,10 commune panchayat and 98 village panchayats in the UT.
In the delimitation, the number of wards in the Puducherry Municipality came down to 33 from 42, and the number of wards in the Oulgaret Municipality rose to 42 from 37 wards.
Though, political parties objected to the reduction of wards, the State Election Commission unmindful of anything is going ahead with its work and the draft voters list for Municipalities and Commune Panchayats were released and the final list will be published on June 28.
With this, political parties also started preparatory works to face the local body election and the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) is in the process of appointing party Presidents for Municipality and Commune Panchayats.
Other parties are also in the process of preparatory works to face the local body election.
(Agencies)
Kolkata, National Employability through Apprenticeship Program [NETAP], India’s largest degree apprenticeship program from TeamLease Skills University, India’s first vocational skills university, has indicated that overall intake of apprentices across India Inc. has seen a significant surge amidst the COVID 19 pandemic.
In FY20-21 hiring has increased by 35%. In fact from April 2021 to now, hiring continues to spike by approximately 40%, especially across key sectors like healthcare & pharmaceuticals, ITeS, BFSI, e-Commerce amongst others. Not only this, even the average stipend pay-out per apprentice has improved by 18% over the years. NETAP has disbursed INR 2700 crores worth stipends since 2014.
Sharing his views on the trajectory of the NETAP program, Sumit Kumar, Vice President – NETAP, TeamLease Skills University, said, “At TeamLease very early in our journey we realised that in India, lack of job opportunities was not a major problem, instead the dearth of skilled talent was.
One of the most effective method to address this issue is apprenticeships. Traditionally both the perception and acceptance for this model was not very high. Today with our conscious efforts, by linking apprenticeship with higher education and offering degree apprenticeships, we have been able to move the needle. Not only have candidates become more forthcoming towards apprenticeships but even companies have consciously increased their apprentice hiring as they have realised the merits of this model to build a robust talent pipeline for the future.”
The apprenticeship route has also enabled aspiring candidates to pave their way into formal employment. Today 95% of the certified apprentices are in formal employment. 40% of these apprentices are being absorbed by the same employers where the candidates had done their apprenticeships. “Not only this, a majority of these apprentices are now earning an average 45% premium on their wages, as they have advanced their skill expertise through the apprenticeship route”, added Kumar.
“NETAP has been a pioneer on the front of taking apprenticeships to the masses. In fact, we were the first to roll out a degree apprenticeship program much before the recent education reforms were formulated. We have completed enrolments of close to 2.5 lakh apprentices since our inception and certified close to 1.25 lakh+ apprentices. However, we have not even touched the tip of the iceberg and there is still a lot of untapped potential on this front. India’s vision is to reach 10 million apprentices in the next 10 years and it is crucial that we scale up our efforts to achieve this goal”, added Kumar.
Through NETAP, even the services sectors such as BFSI (Insurance, Fintech and NBFC), E-commerce, ITeS, Aviation and Agriculture, among others have now extensively leaned towards hiring apprentices. In fact overall apprentices hiring in these sectors has gone up by approximately 40% over the last year. Incidentally the pandemic induced shutdowns have also pushed for increase in apprenticeship deployment in Tier II and Tier III locations.
Sharing her views, Neeti Sharma, Management Representative of TLSU and CoFounder of TL Edtech, said, “Today, it is crucial to create a strong industry academia connect to improve the learning ecosystem. Apprenticeship is a very conducive mechanism to achieve this. On one hand this will provide universities with the opportunity to improve the employability of their students and on the other hand it will also enable employers to connect with the right talent and create a strong talent pool for the industry.”
Having started with a partnership with 20 employers in 2014, today NETAP is partnered with 500 employers across all sectors and caters to about 140 varied job roles. The program is deployed over 3500 locations across all states pan India and plans to expand to new pin codes in the next three years.
(Agencies)
Ambassa(Tripura), Hundreds of farmers like Anu Mia, Ramadhar Pashi, Laxman Pashi and Achir Mia having their fields outside the barbed wire border fencing ultimately heaved a great sigh of relief as some sort of financial assistance started to flow into their bank accounts to redress their loss as they could not harvest their crops during lock down 1 due to closure of border gates.
During the lock down, in order to combat the first wave of COVID pandemic in 2020, the Union government imposed complete closure on Indo-Bangla border. As a result, the farmers lost their access to their lands outside the barbed wire border fencing. One such farmer Anu Mia said, “The period was to harvest ripe crop. But as the border was closed we couldn’t harvest. And our ripe Boro paddy was looted by Bangladeshi goons in broad daylight in front of our eyes. Rest was destroyed by monsoon flood”.
Other farmers also admitted the fact and informed that in total 141 farmers were affected at that time. Those 141 families have only these patches of land outside the barbed wire fencing and naturally the impact crushed them heavily. Laxman Pashi said, “We were in complete hopelessness. Then Kisan Morcha (BJKM) Mandal President came forward. He arranged for a visit of the affected site with Minister Manoj Kanti Deb and high officials from Agriculture Department as well as BJKM Tripura President Jawahar Saha”. After that visit Pintu communicated the whole saga in writing to the concerned Minister, Tripura Chief Minister and Union Minister for Agriculture. As a result a sum of 8,74,400 rupees was sanctioned recently to compensate the 141 farmers on the basis of their quantity of land.
And the amount started to be disbursed in the respective bank accounts.
The smile on the faces of the peasantry unveiled the reward of the initiative of BJKM, according to the local people.
(Agencies)
Kolkata, To provide enhanced support to the healthcare sector in India amid the pandemic, the State Bank of India has launched the Aarogyam Healthcare Business Loan.
Under this new product, entire healthcare ecosystem such as Hospitals, Nursing homes, Diagnostic centres, Pathology labs, Manufacturers, Suppliers, Importers, Logistic firms engaged in critical healthcare supply can avail of loans upto Rs. 100 crore (as per the geographic location) repayable in 10 years.
The Aarogyam Loan can be availed either as term loan to support expansion/modernization or as Working capital facilities such as cash credit, bank guarantee/letter of credit.
In metro centres loans under Aarogyam can be availed up to Rs.100 Crores, Tier I & Urban centres upto Rs.20 Crores and in Tier II to Tier VI centres upto Rs.10 Crores.
The beneficiary units/borrowing Companies availing loan of upto Rs. 2 crores will not be required to offer any collateral or security to the bank as this will be covered under the guarantee scheme of Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE).
Dinesh Khara, Chairman, SBI, while launching the product said, “Our Healthcare system has been providing uninterrupted and phenomenal support over the last year to the country amidst the pandemic. Acknowledging and recognizing their contribution in the wake of Covid-19, we are glad to launch the Aarogyam Healthcare Business Loan for them. We believe this special loan product will provide the much needed financial support to enable expansion/modernization of existing facilities and also creation of new facilities. With Aarogyam Healthcare Business Loan, our endeavour is towards strengthening the healthcare infrastructure across the entire country.”
Aarogyam Healthcare Business Loan will be eligible under the COVID loan book being created by banks announced by RBI as part of COVID relief measures.
(Agencies)
New Delhi, More than 1.50 crore (1,50,28,186) balance and unutilized Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
A total of 47,00,000 more will be received by them within the next three days, it added.
So far, the Centre has provided 30.54 crore (30,54,32,450) doses to the states. Of this, the total consumption, including wastages stands at 29,04,04,264 doses, as per data available this morning.
Meanwhile, India recorded 51,667 new cases of Covid-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the country’s infection caseload to 3,01,34,445, while the death toll soared to 3,93,310 with 1,329 more fatalities, as per the Ministry’s data.
Till now, a total of 30,79,48,744 people have been administered COVID-19 vaccines since January 16, of which 60,73,912 were inoculated in the past 24 hours.
(Agencies)
New Delhi, Terming the Emergency imposed in the country in 1975 a ‘dark’ chapter in the history of Indian democracy, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that period is still fresh in people’s memories.
In a tweet in Hindi, the Defence Minister said, ‘Emergency is known as a ‘dark chapter’ in the history of Indian democracy. The manner in which the Constitution was misused to attack the democratic traditions of the country can never be forgotten. Even today that era is fresh in the memories of all of us.’
‘During this, movements were also held in the country to protect democracy and people endured end number of tortures. We still remember and get inspiration from their sacrifice, courage and struggle.
I salute all those who have played a role in the safeguarding of democracy,’ he said in another tweet.
On June 25, 1975, a situation of emergency was declared by the then president Fakhruddin Ali.
Ahmed on the recommendation of the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government at the Centre which remained in effect from June 25, 1975, to March 21, 1977.
(Agencies)
New Delhi, India recorded 51,667 new cases of Covid-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the country’s infection caseload to 3,01,34,445, while the death toll soared to 3,93,310 with 1,329 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.
Also, the active cases declined by 14,189 to stand at 6,12,868. It is now 2.03 per cent of the total caseload.
The past 24 hours saw 64,527 people recovering from the deadly virus, taking the total recovery count to 2,91,28,267, which is 96.66 per cent of the case tally. The fatality rate stood at 1.31 per cent.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that a total of 39,95,68,448 samples have been tested so far for coronavirus. Of this, 17,35,781 were tested.
Till now 30,79,48,744 people have been administered COVID-19 vaccines with 60,73,912 being inoculated against the virus in the past 24 hours.
(Agencies)
New Delhi, Reiterating that there will be no compromise on Article 370, former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that the people of J&K will fight for the restoration of the special status of the erstwhile state even if takes years.
Ms Mehbooba said that she made these remarks during the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The former chief minister said that she congratulated the PM that they talked to Pakistan which led to a ceasefire and less infiltration.
“The meeting between J&K leaders and the PM took place in conducive atmosphere… I informed him about the issues confronted by the people of J&K. People of J&K are in a lot of difficulties after August 5, 2019. They’re angry, upset and emotionally shattered. They feel humiliated… I told the PM that people of J&K don’t accept the manner in which Article 370 was abrogated on August 5, 2019 unconstitutionally, illegally and immorally,” Ms Mehbooba told reporters here after attending the All Party Meeting.
“Like BJP struggled for 70 years to abrogate Article 370, illegally and unconstitutionally, the people of J&K will struggle constitutionally, democratically, peacefully for the restoration of the special status of J&K. Be it months or years, we’ll restore Article 370 in J&K as it’s a matter of our identity,” she said.
Ms Mehbooba said the special status of J&K was not given by Pakistan, but by our country, by Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel. “This Act defines the identity of the people and safeguards our land and our jobs. So there will be no compromise on this issue,” she said.
The former chief minister said that she congratulated the PM that they talked to Pakistan which led to ceasefire and less infiltration. “I told him (the PM) that the Centre is holding talks with China. Similarly, for peace of J&K if they’ve to talk to Pakistan again, they should do that,” she said.
Ms Mehbooba said that she told the PM that the Centre should also talk to Pakistan about trade with the neighbouring country along the Line of Control (LoC) that has halted. “Be it from Uri- Muzaffarabad or though Jammu, it’s a source of employment for many people,” she said.
The former chief minister said that the harassment of people, including journalists, for speaking their minds should be stopped immediately. “UAPA is imposed on anyone who speaks his mind… everyone is harassed… it has to stop. Political detainees should be released immediately,” she said.
Ms Mehbooba said that she also demanded that the land, jobs, and minerals of J&K should be protected. “People who have suffered due post-August 5, 2019 should be compensated. I particularly informed the PM that the people are suffering in J&K,” she added.
Prime Minister Modi chaired a meeting of 14 leaders from eight political parties in J&K on Thursday to discuss the future course of action for the Union Territory. This was the first such initiative by the Centre since the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state of J&K on August 5, 2019.
The Centre had invited four former chief ministers – Farooq Abdullah, his son Omar Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mehbooba Mufti, besides four Deputy Chief Ministers – Muzafar Hussain Beigh, Tara Chand, Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta. Leaders of six other political parties — Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami of CPI(M), Sajad Gani Lone of Peoples Conference, Mohammad Altaf Bukhari of Apni Party, Prof Bhim Singh of Panthers Party, Ravinder Raina of BJP and G A Mir of Congress – were also invited in the meeting.
(Agencies)
Palamu: Palamu Principal District and Sessions Judge Pradeep Kumar Choubey went door to door and handed over a cheque of two thousand rupees to the children who were orphaned in Covid under foster care and sponsorship. They had reached the victim’s house in Nawakhas village of Purvadiha and Patan police stations of Chainpur on Thursday. Seeing Principal District and Sessions Judge Pradeep Kumar Choubey coming to the village for the first time, people aroused faith that he has definitely come to help these children. It should be known that in Corona someone has lost their husband or someone has lost their son. This calamity has untimely snatched away the family of the good. Children who have lost their parents due to corona virus, the work of providing help to the child has been started through Jhalsa. Ashok Kumar, the secretary of Palamu District Legal Services Authority, himself went to the house of such children and after ascertaining their actual situation, sent the report to Jhalsa.
The Principal District and Sessions Judge met the child and gave them courage. He said that you should not consider yourself alone, Jalsa is standing with you in this hour of trouble. He said that on the directions of Hon’ble Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, Executive Chairman of Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority, such children who have become orphaned due to corona virus are being benefited from the government scheme. He said that for such children, the benefit of the state government scheme is being given by the central government, so that such children do not remain as orphans. The government would make complete arrangements for their education,initiation and food. Sadar Sub-Divisional Officer Rajesh Kumar Sah, Child Welfare Committee member Dhirendra Gupta, Panel Advocate Santosh Kumar Pandey, Assistant Sanjeev Singh, PL Vinay Prasad, Bhagirathi Dubey, Chandradev Singh were also present on the occasion.
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