Amazon to Pay for Employees’ Abortion Travel, Other Treatments

Amazon to Pay for Employees’ Abortion Travel, Other Treatments

May 3, 2022 — Amazon has become the latest big U.S. company to announce it will reimburse employees and their dependents forced to travel for non-life threatening medical treatments, including abortion, Reuters reported. Amazon benefit will pay up to $4,000 if a procedure is not available within 100 miles of an employee’s residence and virtual … Read more

Amazon to Pay for Employees’ Abortion Travel, Other Treatments

Amazon to Pay for Employees’ Abortion Travel, Other Treatments

May 3, 2022 — Amazon has become the latest big U.S. company to announce it will reimburse employees and their dependents forced to travel for non-life threatening medical treatments, including abortion, Reuters reported. Amazon benefit will pay up to $4,000 if a procedure is not available within 100 miles of an employee’s residence and virtual … Read more

Scrapping Roe v. Wade would make the US an outlier in the West

Scrapping Roe v. Wade would make the US an outlier in the West

Such a move would represent a drastic reversal of decades of precedent that would isolate the United States from most of the developed world on reproductive rights. The court’s public affairs office on Tuesday confirmed the document is “authentic,” but stressed that “it does not represent a decision by the court or the final position … Read more

Rahul Gandhi’s partying in Nepal leads to Congress-BJP war of words in India

Rahul Gandhi’s partying in Nepal leads to Congress-BJP war of words in India

A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reportedly at a nightclub in Kathmandu triggered a war of words between the BJP and the Congress on Tuesday. BJP leaders who shared the video — an undated one showing Gandhi accompanied by a friend at a dimly lit nightclub, with loud music in the background — took … Read more

FIR against MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, notices to 13k workers

FIR against MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, notices to 13k workers

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday cracked down on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which has been demanding removal of loudspeakers from mosques. On Tuesday, the police registered an FIR against the party chief, Raj Thackeray, and then made preventive arrests of its leaders. Police personnel were also deployed outside mosques in sensitive areas. The development came hours … Read more

PMGKAY: Wheat allocation to be cut, rice to go up for beneficiaries

PMGKAY: Wheat allocation to be cut, rice to go up for beneficiaries

The government will increase allocation of rice and decrease that of wheat to beneficiaries under its free grains programme as part of efforts to ensure availability of wheat in the domestic market amid a forecast of reduced crop yield this year. Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY), 800 million poor people are … Read more

Hepatitis Outbreak in Children: What to Know

Hepatitis Outbreak in Children: What to Know

May 3, 2022 — The worldwide outbreak of acute hepatitis in children totals nearly 200 cases in 16 countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 20 severe cases in the United States, specifically in Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, New York, and North Carolina. In Wisconsin, one infant died of the disease. Of the … Read more