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CoWIN Portal In 14 Regional Languages May 19, 2021, 19:48 IST According to the Centre, the CoWIN Portal will be available in Hindi and other languages starting next week. These decisions were announced at the 26th meeting of the High-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19, chaired by Health Minister Harsh Vardhan New Delhi: By next week, the CoWin portal will be available in Hindi and 14 regional languages, and 17 new laboratories will be added to the INSACOG network to track COVID-19 variants, the health ministry announced. These decisions were announced at the 26th meeting of th...

Industry and Employment Correspondent Around 9,000 local authority staff belonging to the Fórsa trade union are to ballot for industrial action up to and including strike action in a dispute over a job evaluation scheme for clerical and administrative staff. The move could trigger pay rises for them over and above scheduled public service increases, increments or promotions. Job evaluation allows the knowledge and skills associated with a particular post to be assessed, measured and "appropriately rewarded". A similar evaluation in 2019 resulted in pay rises ranging from 6% to 13% for around...

Conference on the Future of Europe must make their voices heard - President of the European Committee of the Regions 2021-05-07 Photo: EPP Group in the CoR RIGA - The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has demonstrated that the EU foundations lie in local communities, therefore their voices must be heard, said President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Apostolos Tzitzikostas, at the Conference on the Future of Europe. "For more than one year now the COVID-19 pandemic has swept across Europe. (...) Throughout these difficult times, the CoR, and the one million regional and local elected ...

Chinese Chemicals in Mexican Cartel Hands Feed Deadly U.S. Fentanyl Crisis On 5/5/21 at 12:44 PM EDT Chemicals manufactured in China and bought by Mexico's narco cartels in transactions facilitated by a global network of Chinese criminal groups are fueling the fentanyl crisis, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States, the world's biggest market for illegal drugs. The U.S. death toll tied to fentanyl in 2020 is estimated at a record 90,000. The problem may only be getting worse. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid developed decades ago as an extremely powerful pain reli...

Met dank overgenomen van Europees Parlement (EP), gepubliceerd op vrijdag 30 april 2021. Parliament leadership adopts roadmap to achieve gender equality in political processes and its administration. 50% women in middle and senior manager positions and 40% women in top manager positions in the administration. These are the targets the European Parliament's Bureau, comprising the President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors, set in January 2020. To reach these targets by 2024 the Bureau approved a two-year roadmap of ambitious milestones in political processes and in the Parliament’s administrat...