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Sept 10 Bharat Bandh: Oppn to collectively take on Modi Govt over fuel price hike

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September 8, 2018

New Delhi, Sept 8: Besides the UPA constituents, the Left Parties and the Trinamool Congress declared they will protest against rising fuel prices; the September 10 ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by the Congress will become another platform of opposition parties to show their strength against the Narendra Modi government. 

The Congress has announced the Bharat Bandh against the rising prices of petrol and diesel along with essential commodities, the party accused that the government had increased the excise duty on the crude oil products, which will further escalate the fuel prices.

The main opposition party also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers for their silence on the fuel prices and decline of the Rupee against the Dollar.

The Congress said ‘it is not a call by the Congress party, but the people of the nation’ against the government and requested all the opposition parties to join hands. 

While the Left parties announced a separate nationwide Hartal on September 10 against the Modi government, the ruling party of the West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has announced that it will organise street protest across the state and refused a complete shut-down.

The Mamata Banerjee-led state government also directed all employees to be present in office on September 10 and that no leave will be granted.

According to party leader Partha Chatterjee, bandh is a wastage of working hours and acts against the interest of the state. 

The Left parties will organise ‘protest hartal’ against the Union government, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said “the exponentially rising prices of petroleum products is having a crippling effect on the livelihood of crores of Indians”.
“In protest against this situation, the Left parties have decided to call for a nationwide hartal on September 10”, the CPI(M) said. 

The Opposition party in Tamil Nadu and one of the constituent in the UPA, the DMK has also extended its support. 

“DMK will extend complete support to the Bharat Bandh call by the Indian National Congress protesting against the BJP government for steep rise in prices of petrol-diesel. I urge the people and party cadres to make the bandh on 10th Sept a big success”, said DMK leader MK Stalin.

Another UPA partner, NCP, stated that the party will support the bharat bandh. 
Congress' alliance partner in Karnataka - Janata Dal (S) also extended its support to the Bharat Bandh. 

JD(S) state president AH Vishwanath said the party will stage protests in all districts and state capital on September 10. 

Another UPA partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) stated that the party will support the Bharat Bandh. 

“NCP appeals everybody for their cooperation and support to make this bandh a grand success”, the party said in a statement. 

Rebel JD(U) leader and patron of Loktantrik Janata Dal, Sharad Yadav tweeted, “I appeal all citizens of this country to support Bharat Bandh called on 10 September 2018 against the record hike in the prices of diesel and petrol in the history. Neither this Government passed the benefit of low international prices of oil earlier to the consumers nor reduced the taxes thereon”.

Taking on the Modi government the Congress spoksperson RPN Singh on Friday said 'when rupee was at Rs 60 a dollar during the UPA rule, Mr Modi, who was then the Gujarat Chief Minister, had said that rupee is in hospital. Now, under the rule of the NDA, the price of petrol and LPG prices has hit the highest in 70 years. Also, the Rupee has witnessed a sharp fall against the US Dollar.

Escalating the attack he further said, “if at 60 rupees to a Dollar, the rupee had reached the hospital where has it reached today. Today when the oil prices are hitting the roof and the rupee is at an all time low, there is no statement from the PM or any other BJP leader.'

Meanwhile, first time in the history the price of petrol crossed the Rs 80 mark in the national capital with an increase of 39 paise.

Saturday morning petrol was being sold at Rs 80.38 per litre and diesel price went upto Rs 72.51 per litre with an increase of 0.44 paise per litre, here. 

In Mumbai, petrol price reached Rs 87.77 per litre and diesel was sold at Rs 76.98 per litre with the price increasing on the third consecutive day.

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May 19,2020

New Delhi, May 19: Spitting at workplace will be punishable with fine, the Personnel Ministry has said, citing the national directives for COVID-19 management.

In an order issued to all central government departments, it has asked their heads to ensure strict compliance of this and other directives in this regard.

This order is likely to bring about changes in and around government and private work places, where one can easily spot stains of 'pan' and 'gutka' spitted at some of the corners of walls or areas not frequented by many employees/public.

"Spitting in public and work places shall be punishable with fine, as may be prescribed in accordance with its laws, rules and regulations by the state/union territory local authority," said the national directives issued by the Home Ministry and shared by the Personnel Ministry with all central government departments.

It said wearing 'face cover' is compulsory in all public and work places.

In additional directives for the work places, the ministry said as far as possible, the practice from work from home should be followed.

"Staggering of work/business hours shall be followed in offices, work places, shops, markets and industrial and commercial establishments. Provision for thermal scanning, hand wash and sanitiser will be made at all entry and exit points and common areas," the directives said.

Frequent sanitization of the entire workplace, common facilities and all points which come into human contact e.g. door handles etc., shall be ensured, including between shifts, it said.

"All persons in charge of work places shall ensure social distancing through adequate distance between workers, adequate gaps between shifts, staggering the lunch breaks of staff, etc," the directive said.

The Centre on Monday asked 50 per cent of its junior employees, below the level of deputy secretary, to join work in office.

Till now, only 33 per cent of such employees were asked to attend office due to the novel coronavirus lockdown.

Central government employees were asked to work from home due to the lockdown that came into force from March 25.

All officers of the level of deputy secretary and above have already been asked to attend office on all working days.

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August 8,2020

Kozhikode, Aug 8: A tailwind or crosswind could be the reason for the Air India Express flight mishap at Kozhikode international airport in Kerala, according to some aviation experts. 

Team of DGCA and AIE already reached the spot. With the death of the captain and co-pilot in the mishap, the investigation would be focusing mainly on the voice recorders and other technical aspects.

It is learnt that the ill-fated aircraft, IX 1344 with 190 onboard including crew, was initially planning to land on runway-28 of the airport. But later the pilot opted runway-10 which is toward the other direction. Pilots would be taking the decisions on the basis of inputs from ATC.

The questions now doing the rounds are what made the pilot opt runway-10 and whether the tabletop runway lacked adequate safety parameters.

An aviation expert, who didn't want to be quoted, said that Capt Deepak Sathe, who was commandeering the aircraft, was a well-experienced pilot and was also familiar with the terrains. Hence the chances of any error from his part was very unlikely. Hence a fair in-depth probe was required to find the exact cause.

Though the Kozhikode airport has an Instrument Landing System, it was of category-I for which pilot's visibility is very crucial toward a touchdown. Since it is a tabletop airport and rough weather prevailing in the region, the chances of tailwind was also high, said sources.

There had been safety concerns about the airport over quite some time. In 2011 aviation safety consultant captain Mohan Ranganathan reportedly gave a report citing the safety issues, especially the buffer zones at the end of the runway.

However, an AAI officer said that rectification steps were already done by last year by widening the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) from 90 metre to 240 metre. However, the length of the runway had to be reduced to 2,700 metre from 2,850. The AAI was also constantly pressing for increasing the runway length to 3,150 metres. But that was getting delayed due to land acquisition issues pending with the state government.

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July 7,2020

India's COVID-19 tally raced past the seven lakh-mark with 22,252 fresh infections on Tuesday, five days after crossing the six lakh post, while the death toll climbed to 20,160 as 467 more people succumbed to the disease, according to the Union health ministry.

With this, the country has recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection for the fifth consecutive day.

India's coronavirus infection caseload stands at 7,19,665, the ministry's data updated at 8 am showed.

With a steady rise, the number of recoveries stands at 4,39,947, while there are 2,59,557 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.

"Thus, around 61.13 % of patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases also includes foreigners.

Of the 467 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 204 are from Maharashtra, 61 from Tamil Nadu, 48 from Delhi, 29 from Karnataka, 24 from Uttar Pradesh, 22 from West Bengal, 17 from Gujarat.

Telangana and Haryana reported 11 deaths each; Madhya Pradesh nine; Andhra Pradesh seven; Jammu and Kashmir six; Rajasthan and Punjab five each; Bihar, Kerala and Odisha two each; and Arunachal Pradesh and Jharkhand one each.

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