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Health care activists in Maharashtra have demanded an increase in the public health budget by one-and-a-half times and implementation of a central government's legislation which provides for capping treatment rates in private hospitals . The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed loopholes in the system and several people died as they could not get proper medical attention, a group of activists, who have come under the umbrella of 'Jan Arogya Abhiyan', told reporters here on Saturday. The budget session of the Maharashtra Legislature will begin on Monday. "The public health budget should be increased by one- and-a-half times so that there are assured healthcare services in remote and rural areas," activist Ulka Mahajan said. She blamed poor maintenance of the public health system and lack of adequate staff for the death of 10 newborn babies in a fire at the Bhandara district hospital last month. For 2020-21, the Maharashtra government planned to spend Rs 1,350 per person on ... » Learn More about Increase public health care budget in Maharashtra: Activists

The state forest department is setting up three turtle conservation and treatment centres at Tondavali in Sindhudurg, Alibag in Raigad district and Dapoli in Ratnagiri district. The state forest department had recently received approvals from the environment department to set up a centre in Tondavali at a cost of Rs 46 lakh. Forest officers said that at least 30 cases of injured turtles are reported in Sindhudurg district every year. This number is more for Alibag. Additional principal chief conservator of forests (mangrove protection cell) Virendra Tiwari said, “We have got sanctions for the Tondivali centre. The building will cost us Rs 40 lakh and equipment will cost us Rs 6 lakh. The injured turtles will be treated here and then released. We are also looking for land at Dapoli. In Alibag, the centre will be located next to the range forest office.’’ local veterinary doctors . Many turtles get injured in the fishing boats propellers and also get caught in the ... » Learn More about Sindhudurg, Raigad and Ratnagiri will get turtle treatment centres

In view of the spike in COVID-19 cases in Pune, the Pune district administration on Sunday extended the night curfew and shutdown of schools till March 14. The essential services are exempted from the curfew. "COVID-19 restrictions imposed in the Pune city till February 28 have been extended to 14 March," said Murlidhar Mohol Mayor Pune. "No public movement except essential services will be allowed between 11 pm and 6 am," he added. In Pune, the total number of cases are 4,06,453, total recoveries are 3,87,527. The active cases in Pune till Saturday are 9860 while the death toll is at 9235. The State Health Department informed on Saturday that Maharashtra reported 8,623 new COVID-19 cases, 3,648 recoveries, and 51 deaths in the last 24 hours, The COVID-19 death toll reached 1,56,938 on Saturday with additional 113 deaths. Earlier Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had directed senior officials to take strict action against people or organisations ... » Learn More about Pune extends night curfew till March 14; schools to remain shut

You may be an MP or an MLA; when we go to Bengal, we go as cadre.' Rediff.com speaks to BJP leaders deputed to go to West Bengal on election duty. IMAGE: Rajya Sabha MP Rupa Ganguly -- who played Draupadi in B R Chopra's Mahabharat serial -- during the Bharatiya Janata Party's Poriborton Yatra at Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, February 13, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo Bengalis of a certain vintage have grown up hearing the word 'cader' where the 'ca' pronounced as in the word 'cad'. The rest of the world would tell you, it's cadre. That was the time of the Left Front reign in West Bengal. The cadre entered your home insidiously. An LPG gas connection, admission to a school, a job at the government college. The cadre was a seemingly benign face demanding chaanda (donation) for the parar (local) library. Cadre also implied regimentation. A disciplined rank and file, young (generally in the age group 18 to 30), obeying rules and following orders, ... » Learn More about ‘Amit Shah

The Centre on Saturday advised states and UTs reporting an increase in coronavirus cases to enforce Covid-appropriate behaviour by dealing firmly with violations and ensure effective surveillance in case of potential super spreading events so as not to squander last year's gains. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba chaired a high-level review meeting with chief secretaries of states and UTs of Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir. These states and UTs have been reporting a high Covid-19 active caseload or an increasing trend in new cases in the last week. "They were advised not to lower their guard, enforce Covid appropriate behaviour and deal firmly with violations. It was strongly underlined that they need to follow effective surveillance strategies in respect of potential super spreading events," the Union Health Ministry said in a statement. The need for effective testing , comprehensive tracking, ... » Learn More about Centre, states discuss fresh spurt in cases; Focus on strict enforcement of surveillance and testing

Policy pre-requisites for corporate earnings growth are being ignored T he fourth quarter of the last financial year, 2014-15, was an unmitigated disaster for Indian companies. Even after adjusting for extraordinary items, profits for the universe of the top 1,600 companies listed on the stock exchanges shrank by 19 per cent year on year. Profit growth for the blue chips on the Nifty was not very different; for the Sensex, the fall was around nine per cent. (All these numbers, and those that follow, exclude banks and financial companies, as is the convention. They are also marginally sensitive to exactly how you account for one-time write-offs, and so on.) Over the entire financial year, Sensex companies recorded no profit growth -- the first time that’s happened in a decade and half, if you exclude the crisis year of 2008-09. We’re in the middle of the season in which results are declared for the first quarter of this financial year, 2015-16, and the early news is not ... » Learn More about Indian economy recovering? But where and how

A day after the Election Commission of India announced the election schedule for Tamil Nadu and three other States, the district administration on Saturday began the process of setting up a control room at the Collectorate. District Collector K. Rajamani had asked a District Revenue Officer-level official to head the control room and that was most likely to be headed by the DRO in-charge of land acquisition for the Coimbatore airport expansion project. The administration was in the process of setting up phone lines with toll-free number. Once complaints start pouring in, the control room staff, who would manage the room 24x7 in turns, would forward the complaints to the DRO-cadre officers. Mr. Rajamani said the administration had calculated that it would need additional 1,300-odd polling booths in the ensuing election to ensure it could enforce COVID-19 safety protocol. Of the 1,300-odd booths, 900-odd booths will be in the same polling station. The rest would be at a premises ... » Learn More about Work to set up election control room begins in Coimbatore

“No one can predict the rise or fall in petroleum prices. After a massive drop in demand during the Covid-19 crisis, the oil-producing countries had reduced production to 10-12 million barrels in May 2020 from 100 million earlier,” Pradhan said while talking to reporters at circuit house here on Saturday. “When demand started increasing they were asked to increase production and had assured to do so by February. They did not increase production leading to demand-supply imbalance and increase of price,” he added. LPG consumption increases massively in Europe during winter and falls after March-end following which prices are likely to dip, said Pradhan. The cascading effect on other sectors is natural, but the tax component is not being disturbed as the government has to spend Rs 35,000 crore on Covid vaccine and development spending has increased 32% this year. Being the third-largest energy consumer country, all efforts are on to rein in oil prices, he said. “We are in ... » Learn More about Fuel prices increased due to dip in supply: Oil min