GNCT Act not fight for power but means to decide responsibility: BJP MP Lekhi By Nishant Ketu | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 07:56 IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): After the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021, came into force in Delhi, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said the act should be seen as a means of fixing responsibility on the Lieutenant Governor rather change in the power centre. We should not see it (Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021) as a power centre but as a responsibility centre. So far, Delhi is lying like an orphan. The elected Chief Minister promised free electricity, water and clear oxygen and now the oxygen has finished. 45 hospitals had a private contract with an oxygen supplier and he nullified them. The supply of 28 hospitals of them have been completely stopped. Who does that? Private hospitals had their own supply chains. He took it from them and said he will do the
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After weathering the first wave of COVID-19 infections, India has been engulfed by a massive second wave, overwhelming the health-care system and plunging the country into a terrifying humanitarian crisis.
Johns Hopkins University reports that as of April 28, India had a cumulative case count of 17,997,113 COVID-19 infections, second only to the United States. Since the onset of the pandemic, 204,832 people in India have been killed by the highly transmissible disease. On April 27, India recorded 360,927 COVID-19 cases in a single day, a world record. That same day, 3,293 people in India succumbed to COVID-19.
Urdu Bulletin: Setting up of 500 oxygen plants through PM-CARES fund reported ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 11:56 IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Urdu publications have in their Thursday editions prominently carried the news of Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairing a high-level meeting in which he said that 500 oxygen generation plants will be set up through funding from the PM-CARES fund.
Most publications reported that Delhi s Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal is now the government in the national capital after the Centre notified the amended Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021 on Tuesday.
Rashtriya Sahara: The publication highlighted that one lakh portable oxygen concentrators will be purchased and 500 oxygen generation plants will be set up with PM-CARES funds, the Centre informed after a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also said the oxygen concentrators shoul
The clarification from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) came after the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021 came into force from Tuesday.
Supreme Court gives clearance to special Covid care centre at Pragati Maidan
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The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had earlier written to the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana to convert the new advocates chamber building into a Covid-19 care centre for lawyers, court staff, and their families.
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In its press release, the apex court said that its administration has conveyed its in-principle concurrence to the initiative of the SCBA for setting up of temporary in-patient facility for Covid-19 patients in the Supreme Court Complex.
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave formal clearance to a special Covid care centre at the new additional building complex in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.