The CBSE Class XII Board Exams for 2021 have been cancelled this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced after chairing a review meeting where officials gave a detailed presentation on the wide and extensive consultation held so far and views received from all stakeholders.
The Supreme Court will today hear a suo motu petition, taking into account the “problems and miseries of migrant labourers," amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The court did not stop at that. It said: "In a quasi-federal country like ours, it is the constitutional duty of the Central Government to rush to the rescue of the State Government."
The plea in the Delhi High Court wants a control on the cost of treatment incurred by Covid patients in private hospitals. The plea has also sought a direction to private hospitals to publish on its website the regulated rates as well as show in prominent places inside the hospitals.
Earlier, the petitioner had submitted that complete chaos prevails, because of the deadly situation of shortage of oxygen. The high court had also asked the states to consider home delivery of oxygen cylinders.
The restaurateur is fearing arrest, being named in the FIR for a case registered against him for allegedly black marketing and hoarding of oxygen concentrators and other medical equipment amid the Covid pandemic.
A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail application of restaurateur Navneet Kalra in a case against him for black marketing of Oxygen Concentrator and other medical equipment during the Covid pandemic.
The bench made it clear that authorities must make all effort to make sure that oxygen is available to a patient desperately needing it and that authorities cannot ignore such needs.
Regarding the workers who could help out in this, Rao said “There are about 15-16,000 Anganwadi workers and 72 child care institutions that can be roped in.”