Gujarat logs record 11,403 COVID-19 cases, 117 deaths; state ramps up Oxygen production
This is for the first time that the number of fresh coronavirus has crossed the 11,000-mark in a day in Gujarat.
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Covid-19 patients watch a movie at a COVID Care Centre in Surat, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Photo | PTI) By PTI
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat recorded 11,403 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest one-day count so far, while 117 patients died due to the infection, the most in a day, the state Health Department said.
This is for the first time that the number of fresh coronavirus has crossed the 11,000-mark in a day in Gujarat.
How Indiaâs Plan for Bank Privatisation Is Fraught with Serious Challenges
The government intends to privatise four mid-sized public sector banks: Bank of Maharashtra, Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank and Central Bank of India.
Central Bank of India is among the four PSBs which government intends to privatise. Photo: PTI
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Keeping the focus on the Rs 1.75 lakh crore disinvestment target for the financial year 2022âs privatisation drive, the finance ministry is holding discussions to bring legislative amendments in order to bring two public sector banks (PSBs) out of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 and (nationalisation) 1980. Before the bank nationalisation laws can be repealed, the PSBs have to be transferred from under these acts to the Companies Act.
One million Indian bank employees join two-day national strike against privatisation
About one million public sector bank workers joined a two-day national strike on Monday and Tuesday against the plans by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for mergers and privatisations of state banks. Striking workers held protests in several cities across India.
The two-day action is part of a growing wave of class and other social struggles in India and internationally. Tomorrow, workers in public sector insurance companies will join a strike against privatisation. Tens of thousands of farmers are in continuous protests against the government’s pro-agribusiness farm laws, camping at various sites on the outskirts of Delhi since November 26.
Bank strike Day 2: These banks to remain shut today; check what services will remain hit
During the first day of the bank strike, services such as cash withdrawals, deposits, cheque clearing, and business transactions remained impacted across the country
BusinessToday.In | March 16, 2021 | Updated 09:37 IST
Bank employees participate in a protest during a 2-day nationwide bank strike against proposed privatisation of Public Sector banks and retrograde reforms
Banking services on Tuesday, March 16, will also remain affected as bank unions and employees continue to protest as part of a two-day national strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions.
General insurance employees set to go on strike on Wednesday The govt had announced its decision of strategic sale in one general insurance company in 2021-22 and introduce the IPO of LIC in the current fiscal
Employees of public sector insurance companies, including LIC and four public sector general insurers, are set to up the ante against the government move to divest LIC and privatise a general insurance company.
Following a two-day bank strike on Monday and Tuesday, general insurance employees are set to go on a strike on Wednesday (March 17, 2021) and LIC employees have called a strike on Thursday (March 18, 2021).