With Cyclone Yaas likely to disrupt supply of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from steel plants in eastern India to Andhra Pradesh, the state health authorities have taken steps to ensure uninterrupted supply.Covid-19 special officer M.T. Krishna .
Assembly passes resolution against RINL privatisation
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Government acknowledges need for supporting the cause of VSP
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Government acknowledges need for supporting the cause of VSP
The State government on Thursday passed a resolution in the Legislative Assembly opposing the decision of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs to disinvest the entire stake of the Union government in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (Visakhapatnam Steel Plant) along with management control through privatisation, and seeking the Government of India’s support to the RINL for making a turnaround.
It was mentioned in the resolution moved by Minister for Industries and Commerce Mekapati Goutham Reddy, that keeping the sensitivity of the issue in view, the State government acknowledged the need for supporting the cause of RINL. Accordingly, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had written a letter to the Prime Minister with a request to reconsider the proposal of disinvestment
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India is in great distress due to the killer second wave of COVID and people are shaken up with the fear of the unknown amidst the crumbling medical infrastructure and facilities. In this heart-rending scenario, corporates from across the world have stepped in to provide help and support , including the much needed medicines and oxygen to Indians.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc has decided to donate medicines worth over $70 million, which are essential for COVID treatment. In a tweet, Albert Burla, chairman and chief executive (CEO) of Pfizer says, Right now, Pfizer colleagues at distribution centres in the US, Europe and Asia are hard at work rushing shipments of Pfizer medicines that the government of India has identified as part of their COVID treatment protocol. We are donating enough of these medicines to ensure that every COVID patient in every public hospital across India can have access to them in the next 90 days free of charge. This effort has the potent
In Telangana & Andhra too, HCs strike a blow for citizens, writes VJM Divakar
âThe entire world.knows of the war-like conditions.since February 2021. Does the SEC not belong to this planet? Are you living on Mars? You gave the notification on April 16. Some of the municipalitiesâ terms have not been completed by March and mid-April. You have four months time to conduct elections. Is there such an urgency.? Chief Justice Hima Kohli, Telangana HC
Chief Justice Hima Kohli, Telangana High Court
In the absence of any proactive measures from the elected government amidst the dangerous surge of Covid pandemic, the judiciary seems to be stepping in, to rescue helpless citizens in the country and both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states are no exception to this.
On Tuesday, the East Central Railway sent a thank-you note to Rohan Verma, CEO of MapmyIndia. The small but thoughtful gesture from the zonal railway, which is busy transporting oxygen, a lifeline for thousands of Covid patients, was encouraging for the company that is using technology to track oxygen supplies to medical units.
The East Central Railway touches Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. While Jharkhand is a production centre for oxygen, the other states are big consumers that fall on vital rail links on which the Oxygen Express trains are running. And MapmyIndia’s free-of-charge initiative is helping prevent any diversion and pilferage by tracking oxygen tankers through its global positioning system (GPS).