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Vijay Mohan Tribune News Service Chandigarh, August 28 In a significant development which may lead to removal of a long-pending anomaly for disabled officer trainees of the defence services and their widows, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the central government to resolve the matter. In a petition filed by the widow of a deceased gentleman cadet who was boarded out of the Indian Military Academy for a disability suffered during training which was declared "attributable to military service", it was pointed out that while most civilian employees who are disabled during training or service cannot be discharged from service due to a disability, there was no such protection for military personnel under the Persons with Disabilities Act. Further, those civilian trainees and officer-trainees of organisations such as the Central Armed Police Forces who are discharged on account of disabilities, are paid proper disability pension and their widows are paid family p...

Pune, August 28 A 30-year-old doctor is being hailed as a real "COVID warrior" after he drove an ambulance to ferry a critically ill elderly coronavirus patient to a hospital from a care centre here. Dr Ranjeet Nikam said since the driver of the ambulance suddenly fell ill and there was no one to replace him immediately, he decided to step in along with another doctor, Rajendra Rajpurohit, to ensure the patient gets urgent medical attention. Nikam took control of the wheel and drove the 71-year -old patient in the ambulance to a hospital after his oxygen saturation level dipped at the COVID care centre where he was undergoing treatment. The patient was under Nikam's watch at the COVID care centre set up in the Marketyard area. "The incident took place around 2 am on Monday. I was at the COVID care centre when I received a call that an elderly patient's oxygen saturation level has gone down. "After consultation with senior doctors, it was decided to shi...

New Delhi, August 28 Marking the sixth anniversary of the 'Jan Dhan' scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the initiative had been a "game-changer" and served as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives. After he led the BJP to power in 2014, this was one of his government's first major projects under which bank accounts of crores of people, mostly poor, were opened. "Today, six years ago, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched with an ambitious aim of banking the unbanked. This initiative has been a game-changer, serving as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives, benefitting crores of people," the Prime Minister tweeted. "Thanks to the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the future of several families has become secure. A high proportion of beneficiaries are from rural areas and are women. I also applaud all those who have worked tirelessly to make PM-JDY a success. #6Years Of JanDhan Yoja...

New Delhi, August 28 The government has permitted the airlines to serve pre-packed snacks, meals and beverages on domestic flights and hot meals on international flights, according to an official order. Moreover, any passenger who refuses to wear a face mask in a flight could be put on the no-fly list by the airline, said a senior official of the aviation regulator DGCA. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, in-flight meal service was not permitted on domestic flights since their resumption on May 25. On international flights, only pre-packed cold meals and snacks were being served depending on the flight duration since May this year. In an order issued on Thursday, the Civil Aviation Ministry said: "Airlines may serve pre-packed snacks or meals or pre-packed beverages on domestic flights depending on the duration of the flight. Airlines and charter flight operators can serve hot meals and limited beverages on international flights as per the standard practices," it added. Th...

New Delhi, August 28 A record single-day spike of 77,266 COVID-19 cases pushed India's virus tally to 33,87,500 while the recoveries surged to 25,83,948 on Friday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll climbed to 61,529 with 1,057 people succumbing to the diseases in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. The recovery rate was recorded at 76.28 per cent while the COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.82 per cent. There are 7,42,023 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.90 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went past 30 lakh on August 23. According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 3,94,77,848 samples have been tested up to August 27 with 9,01,338 samples being tested on Thursday. PTI Source:- The Tribune https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/india-records-single-day-spike-of-77-266 covid-cases-death-...

London, August 28 Britain's World War II spy, Noor Inayat Khan, on Friday became the first Indian-origin woman to be honoured with a memorial Blue Plaque at her former family home in central London. The Blue Plaque scheme, run by the English Heritage charity, honours notable people and organisations connected with particular buildings across London. Khan's plaque has gone up at 4 Taviton Street in Bloomsbury, where she lived before she left for Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE). Noor, the daughter of Indian Sufi saint Hazrat Inayat Khan and a descendant of the 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, went on to be killed at Dachau concentration camp in 1944, having revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name. "When Noor Inayat Khan left this house on her last mission, she would never have dreamed that one day she would become a symbol of bravery," said Shrabani Basu, histori...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused permission for the Muharram procession across India. "If we allow this, there will be chaos and one particular community will be targeted for spreading Covid," the court said. — TNS Source:- The Tribune postimageurlhttps://https://ift.tt/2YFOpeJ

New Delhi/Mumbai, August 27 A day after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) registered a case against late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, the agency is all set to question 20 people in the coming days. According to NCB sources, the agency has prepared a list of 20 suspects over supply of drugs in the case, including Gaurav Arya, Suved Lohia, Kwan Entertainment partner Jaya Saha, former Big Boss contestant Ejaz Khan, Farookh Batata and Bakul Chandani among others. The development comes a day after the NCB registered a case under Sections 20 (b) 28, 29 of the NDPSAct against Rhea, her brother Showik, Saha, Sushant’s co-manager Shruti Modi and Arya. Sources said Arya is absconding. They said on August 16, a rave party was raided in Goa in which Arya was involved in supplying drugs. According to NCB sources, Khan was arrested by Navi Mumbai Police for dealing in drugs in October 2018, while Chandani, owner of Sarvodaya video library in Khar, was arrested in De...

Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 27 The turmoil caused by a letter bomb in the Congress seems far from over, with former Union minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday taking to Twitter to allege official victimisation of younger colleague Jitin Prasada, one of the 20 signatories to a recent missive that sought sweeping changes to the party structures, including its presidency. The letter was shot down on Monday at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, which unanimously asked interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to continue till the new president is elected at the next AICC session and warned leaders against going public with grievances. Though the letter writers, which include Sibal and Jitin, hailed Sonia’s “graciousness in letting bygones be bygones”, it appears the Congress rank and file is not prepared to forget that dissenters sought full-time chief virtually questioning Sonia. “Unfortunate that Jitin Prasada is being officially targeted in UP. The Congress...

Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 27 Can a company's assets, attached by authorities following legal proceedings, be considered for liquidation to settle financial liabilities? The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would examine the issue after senior advocate CS Vaidyanathan, representing liquor baron Vijay Mallya's United Breweries (Holding) Ltd (UBHL), said the company's total assets were far greater than its liabilities. The UBHL has challenged the Karnataka High Court's order upholding the decision of a single judge to wind up the company. Vaidyanathan told a Bench headed by Justice UU Lalit that the court should not uphold winding up of the company as it had far more assets than its liabilities. The Bench also reserved its verdict on a petition of Mallya, who has sought review of its 2017 order holding him guilty of contempt of court for transferring USD 40 million to his children. Vaidyanathan said the HC erred in not accepting its offer of settlement a...