In Petrapole, West Bengal, India’s busiest land crossing with Bangladesh, a truck carrying cotton yarn rumbled across the border. At the wheel for this sortie across from Petrapole land port was Annapoorni Rajkumar, a woman from Tamil Nadu. What made this special wasn’t just the landmark event of a woman driving a heavy goods vehicle … Read more
Jagrita Nagarikaru, Karnataka, a forum of progressive intellectuals and activists, have expressed shock over police action against those associated with NewsClick portal on Tuesday and said that “such acts constitute a conspiracy to silence the voices of individuals who dissent.” In a release, members of the forum said, “The media is the watchdog of democracy. Its function is … Read more
Jaipur: A new website called ‘Raj Health portal’ (rajhealth.rajasthan.gov.in) was launched by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday for maintaining real-time data of doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, officers and non-gazetted employees of the department of medical, health and family welfare. It is estimated that the state has around 1.5 lakh employees are working at health … Read more
Ghaziabad: Following instructions from UP National Health Mission in Lucknow, login IDs are being made for all the healthcare givers in Ghaziabad. Chief medical officer Dr Bhavtosh Shankdhar said doctors, community health officers, and frontline workers like auxiliary nursing midwives (ANM) will be registered on e-Sanjeevani to expand telemedicine services. In the letter issued by … Read more
New Delhi: Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra on Tuesday launched the Unified Portal of the Central Bureau of Narcotics, which will instill efficiency and transparency and reduce the time taken by the pharma industry to get a trade license. Additional Secretary (Revenue) Vivek Aggarwal, Narcotics Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Bouddh, Anil Ramteke, Chief Controller of Factories, Vinod … Read more
Lucknow: Soon, heart patients and their caregivers across the country will soon get answers to all their queries in their own language in just one click, as the Cardiological Society of India(CSI) will launch a digital platform that will guide the community on various heart conditions. The platform, which is likely to be available for … Read more
Kolkata: Learning from the COVID and the current ARI surge, where patients had complaints of having had to hop from one hospital to another for a bed, the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has decided to develop a portal that will provide real-time bed vacancy data at private hospitals. This will be applicable … Read more
Shimla: As a pilot project in Himachal Pradesh‘s Solan and Sirmaur districts, the government has launched U-WIN portal, a digital way to facilitate tracking every pregnant woman and children for vaccination. Under the Centre-sponsored project, these districts have been included among the selected ones in the country. The aim of the project is to increase … Read more
Employees Providend Fund Organisation building at Bandra. | Photo Credit: Surpreet Sapkal Implementing the recent Supreme Court order on higher provident fund pensions, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has made a provision in the member’s portal so that retired workers can opt for higher pension. The EPFO has started taking registration requests from employees … Read more
Jaipur: The health department issued directions to update and verify professional and personal details on the ‘health portal’. The department has clarified that the Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP), permission for foreign travel, NoC required for different works, transfers, postings and all such works will be done through the health portals from now onwards. The … Read more