Name: Supreme Court clears bonanza for pensioners
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The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for higher pension to all private sector employees by dismissing a special leave petition filed by Employees Provident Fund Or

Supreme Court clears bonanza for pensioners

The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for higher pension to all private sector employees by dismissing a special leave petition filed by Employees Provident Fund Organisation against a Kerala high court judgment. The HC had asked EPFO to give pension to all retiring employees on the basis of their full salary, rather than capping the figure on which contribution is calculated at a maximum of ₹15,000 per month. Pension of all employees in all firms are set to rise manifold after the order.

The Indian Council of Medical Research has dropped the use of convalescent plasma from the recommended treatment guidelines for Covid-19.The National Task Force of the

The Indian Council of Medical Research has dropped the use of convalescent plasma from the recommended treatment guidelines for Covid-19. The National Task Force of the ICMR, along with experts from the Health Ministry, periodically updates guidelines on recommended modes of treatment.&nbsp;
Though a trial by the ICMR on 400 patients last year&nbsp;had found no significant benefit from the use of plasma it continued to find a place in the recommended guidelines. Registered Doctors anywhere, however, aren&rsquo;t bound by the Task Force recommendations.
Several other international trials had also found no benefit from plasma therapy.

With winds gusting up to 185 km per hour, the very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae began making landfall on the Gujarat coast on Monday night. Over 1.5 lakh people have

With winds gusting up to 185 km per hour, the very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae made landfall on the Gujarat coast on Monday night.
Over 1.5 lakh people were evacuated from the low-lying coast areas and at least 17 Covid patients on ventilator support in the Porbandar Civil Hospital's ICU were shifted to other facilities.
54 teams of the NDRF and SDRF remain deployed in the region and the NDRF headquarters is closely monitoring the situation through its 24x7 control room.
11 diving teams have been kept on standby and 12 flood rescue and medical teams are also ready for immediate response.
The storm reached Gujarat after dumping heavy rains over Maharashtra on Monday morning. At least 6 people died in the Konkan region and three sailors were missing after two boats sank in the sea.

Proposed by Mynamar, Tauktae is just one of the 169 names up for grabs for cyclones in the Indian Ocean region since the year 2020. Tropical cyclones&n

Proposed by Mynamar,&nbsp;Tauktae is just one of the 169 names up for grabs for&nbsp;cyclones in the Indian Ocean region since the year 2020.&nbsp;
Tropical cyclones&nbsp;and&nbsp;subtropical cyclones&nbsp;are named by various warning centers once storms produce sustained wind speeds of more than 33 knots (61&nbsp;km/h), names are assigned in order from predetermined lists depending on which basin they originate.&nbsp;
In May 2020, the naming of&nbsp;Cyclone Amphan&nbsp;exhausted the original list of names established in So&nbsp;13 countries across the Indian Ocean territory put forward a list of proposed names, and the&nbsp;tropical cyclones to the India Meteorological Department who finally christens every storm.&nbsp;
Some of the names proposed by India in 2020 as Tej, Vyom, Gati, Neer Anahita and Toofan

Senior journalist Mathew Samuel, the man behind the Narada sting operation, said he is satisfied after the arrest of Trinamool Congress leaders. Samuel, however, expre

Senior journalist Mathew Samuel, the man behind the Narada sting operation, said he is satisfied after the arrest of Trinamool Congress leaders.
Samuel, however, expressed surprise that the CBI did not arrest former TMC minister and incumbent BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who is also accused in the same case.
Samuel said that steps against corruption are needed and investigations should be fair.
The sting operation was conducted by Samuel of Narada News, a web portal, in 2014 wherein some people resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs were seen receiving money from representatives of a fictitious company in lieu of favours.

Vikram Q: on use of drugs remdesivir &amp; ivermectin Dr Vinay Gupta:&nbsp; Truly important question considering what&rsquo;s happening in India. Convalescent plasma, actually taking antibodies from someone who has recovered from covid and giving it to somebody sick with covid, the data has been up and down and a bit confusing here in the US for the last 10 months. What we know is that if you get a high concentration of this early in the case of critical or severe covid- if you require oxygen or all the way up to a ventilator- within the first 48 hours of your critical illness and you get a high dose of this, there is different dosages, then it looks like that could potentially help you come out of the ICU more quickly. So there does appear to be a benefit if you get it early and you get a high dose of it which is different form the way we were thinking about it many months ago where you just gave it whenever you could and didn&rsquo;t really think about the dose. So that plasma, has utility but under specifications. Remdesivir- Knowing what we do now and what we knew back in 2020, the data has never been compelling. There is a lot of sending shipment to India- I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s where our attention should be. It does not look like Remdesivir is life saving. There was some initial data suggesting that it might get you out of the ICU more quickly if you are on a ventilator but now &mdash; by a much larger study by the World Health Organisation. So for all of you out listening, I would not focus on getting Remdesivir if you have a loved one in the hospital because we don&rsquo;t think there is compelling enough data that says it&rsquo;s actually gonna save lives. On the question of ivermectin- my own family members are getting- my father got from his physician, a sheet they are giving out I posted on Twitter. It&rsquo;s basically 10 medications, anything from herbal tea to an acid reflux medication to ivermectin&hellip;Ivermectin Is a dangerous drug. It is an anti-parasite that is used to treat parasites like tapeworms in your gut or I know it&rsquo;s less common in India, if you have a pet and they have seething like that you give it to them. The doses that are required to kill Covid in the body we think are so high using ivermectin that it can cause liver injury, cause vital organ injury. It&rsquo;s not something to be taken lightly It&rsquo;s not proven to be effective in the human body and we think that if it could be effective in the human body you&rsquo;d have very very high doses that will otherwise be very harmful to you. So do not take it. Absolutely do not take it. We don&rsquo;t recommend it here in the US and for good reasons. Lastly, monoclonal antibodies will be available- in my opinion these medications could very well be helpful in reducing death tolls in India. They are very hard to get even here in the US so I worry about access. The monoclonal antibodies if what President Trump received if you remember his illness. These are basically pre-formed antibodies that can kill covid early on in illness Early, in the course of critical or more severe covid. Vikram Question: are there new medicines that we are likely to have over the next few weeks? (take full answer) Dr Kavita: nothing in the next few weeks , excited about pfizer drug...there are no miracle drugs...i understand that people are desperate, the important things that people can do is go back to the basics...people are emotional....there are spending their entire savings on medicines like ivermection &amp; remdesivir...please do not do that (till end of answer)

(include Vikram Q1) Vinay Gupta: (ans 1)&nbsp; I have a feeling here that there were too many data points in the SUTRA amodel....you lose the ability to give an accurate forecast...we limit it to 4/5/6 variables crucial variables only....big difference in what IHME and the SUTRA model are forecasting Vikram Q: is it going to get better or worse? Vinay Gupta: things are getting better, improvement is happening but it wont feel like improvement (join from ans) Dr Kavita: sutra model heavily reliant on over fitting the model....it does have a sound basis mathematically...but fitting data that to a computation model cant predict future behaviour for freaky reasons...there is also psycology of people, there is so much you can do.....biggest factor is the variance of virus, can't understand possibly predict or anticipate how the virus can mutate.

A special CBI court on Monday granted bail to two West Bengal ministers, a TMC MLA and a former minister arrested in connection with the Narada sting tape case. Specia

A special CBI court on Monday granted bail to two West Bengal ministers, a TMC MLA and a former minister arrested in connection with the Narada sting tape case.
Special CBI court judge Anupam Mukherjee granted bail to senior ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former minister Sovan Chatterjee after hearing their lawyers and the counsel for the agency, their lawyer Anindya Raut said.
They were produced before the court through the virtual mode.
The four were kept at the CBI office in Nizam Palace following their arrest in the morning from their homes in different parts of Kolkata.&nbsp;

The BJP’s Sitapur MLA has become the latest to join the list of ruling party lawmakers in Uttar Pradesh who have expressed resentment over COVID-19 management in

The BJP&rsquo;s Sitapur MLA has become the latest to join the list of ruling party lawmakers in Uttar Pradesh who have expressed resentment over COVID-19 management in the state, saying he feared a sedition charge for speaking up.
&ldquo;What standing do MLAs have? If we speak too much, treason and sedition charges will be slapped on us as well,&rdquo; Rakesh Rathore told reporters last week, according to a video clip which surfaced Monday.
The MLA was replying to a question about ICU facilities in Sitapur.
Pressed further, he said, "Do you think any MLA can put forward his point of view?" &ldquo;Everything is going fine. I will only say that things couldn&rsquo;t be better,&rdquo; he said in a sarcastic vein, while replying to another question.
&ldquo;I am not the government. But I can definitely say that whatever the government is telling you, it should be considered as correct," he said.
Asked why the district administration is lacking in efforts to control the crisis, the MLA said the government and administration are two sides of the same coin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with doctors from across the country about their learnings and suggestions on Covid-19. PM Modi spok

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with doctors from across the country about their learnings and suggestions on Covid-19.&nbsp; &nbsp; PM&nbsp;Modi spoke to groups of doctors involved in COVID care through video-conferencing.&nbsp; &nbsp; The doctors were from various regions, including the northeast, and Jammu and Kashmir.&nbsp; &nbsp; They shared their experiences in dealing with highly infectious disease and offered suggestions.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The SUTRA model is a mathematical model used by the govt to fight the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. SUTRA which stands for for Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (

The SUTRA model is a mathematical model used by the govt to fight the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. SUTRA which stands for for Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive) and Removed Approach, hit the headlines when one of its expert members informed in October 2020 that India had crossed the Covid 19 peak.
Speaking to Vikram Chandra on editorji, Dr M Vidyasagar, Professor, IIT Hyderabad who worked on this model, explains how data-centric modelling such as SUTRA work to predict the trajectory of a pandemic. He says, the changing behaviour of the virus, fact that some people were bigger transmitters of the virus than others were important parameters that showed there was lack of social or geographic heterogeneity as the disease spiralled.

Delhi on Monday reported 4,524 new COVID-19 cases, lowest since April 5, and 340 fatalities. The positivity rate dipped to 8.42 per cent, according to the latest healt

Delhi on Monday reported 4,524 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest since April 5, and 340 fatalities.
The positivity rate dipped to 8.42 per cent, according to the latest health bulletin released by the city government. The positivity rate is the lowest since April 9 when it stood at 7.8 per cent
The COVID-19 situation has been improving in Delhi with the number of cases and positivity rate going down steadily in the past few days.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday however extended the lockdown till May 24, saying the gains made so far in combating coronavirus cannot be lost due to relaxations now.

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that it views WhatsApp’s privacy policy as violating India’s IT Laws.

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that it views WhatsApp&rsquo;s privacy policy as violating India&rsquo;s IT Laws. The Centre has sought directives from the court to WhatsApp to make it clear if it is conforming to India&rsquo;s laws.
The government made the admission before a Delhi High Court bench hearing several petitions challenging WhatsApp&rsquo;s new privacy policy, which came into effect on May 15.
WhatsApp has stopped short of deleting accounts of users who have not yet accepted the policy, but will increasingly limit functionality unless they accept.

Delhi High Court on Monday reserved judgment in a plea seeking temporary suspension of work on Central Vista Redevelopment Project in light of second wave of Covid-19.

Delhi High Court on Monday reserved judgment in a plea seeking temporary suspension of work on Central Vista Redevelopment Project in light of second wave of Covid-19. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, representing the petitioner, said in the court that government&rsquo;s Central Vista project should now be called the &lsquo;Central fortress of death.&rsquo;
The remarks come as a bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a plea against the construction of the project in the national capital in the backdrop of the second wave. The Centre has been facing flak from the opposition for executing the project at time of Covid emergency.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday on the Cyclone Tauktae related situation in the state, official sources said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday over&nbsp;the Cyclone Tauktae related situation in the state.
The cyclonic storm over the Arabian Sea led to very strong winds blowing at a speed of 114 kmph in Mumbai on Monday afternoon. Maharashtra government has said that two persons died in Konkan region in separate incidents.&nbsp;
Two barges with 410 persons on board have gone adrift off the Mumbai coast as the cyclonic storm over the Arabian Sea intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm and is expected to reach Gujarat coast Monday evening.

The Delhi High Court on Monday pulled up the police for what it called “vague and whitewashing” investigation into allegations of hoarding of Covid-19&

The Delhi High Court on Monday pulled up the police for what it called &ldquo;vague and whitewashing&rdquo; investigation into allegations of hoarding of&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;medicines by political leaders. The high court said since it is projected that these medicines were procured for public charity and not for political gains, the leaders should surrender their stocks to the Director General of Health Services.
 The court also asked the Police to find out as to how chemists supplied such large quantities of medicines to the leaders.
The court was hearing a PIL seeking lodging of an FIR on the allegations that politicians are able to procure in huge quantity and distribute Covid-19 medicines even as patients were running from pillar to post to get them.

The national committee on serious adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) has confirmed that there is a very minuscule but definitive risk of thromboembolic events

According to a report submitted by the national committee on serious adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) to the Union Health Ministry, there is a very minuscule but definitive risk of thromboembolic events after being vaccinated. The expert panel found 26 potential cases of blood clotting after the administration of Covishied.&nbsp;
Emphasising that the vaccination outweighs the risks, the data analysed also suggests that the reports are scarce compared to the data from United Kingdom.
According to a report by India Today, the panel also suggested that South Asians may genetically have less propensity to develop post-vaccination clotting as compared with those in western countries.
The report adds that people should look out for post Covishiled symptoms such as severe headaches, seizures, vomiting, pain in the stomach and breathlessness.
No such adverse reaction has been associated with Covaxin yet.

A huge crowd of TMC supporters gathered outside the CBI office on Monday following the arrest of top party leaders in the Narada scam. TMC supporters pelted stones whil

A huge crowd of TMC supporters gathered outside the CBI office on Monday following the arrest of top party leaders in the Narada scam. TMC supporters pelted stones while protesting outside CBI office in Kolkata over the arrests of party heavyweights Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and MLA Madan Mitra.
The main gate of the CBI office in Kolkata has been closed over the massive protests. Security forces carried out baton charges against TMC protesters outside the CBI office.
TMC has written to the Kolkata police commissioner and accused CBI of working at the behest of BJP and Bengal governor. Mamata&rsquo;s nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee urged everyone to abide by the law and refrain from violating lockdown norms and said the battle will be fought legally&lsquo;

The Delhi High Court on Monday disapproved of political leaders and Members of Parliament hoarding medicines which are used for treatment of COVID-19. The observa

The Delhi High Court on Monday disapproved of political leaders and Members of Parliament hoarding medicines which are used for treatment of COVID-19. &nbsp;The observation came after hoarding of drugs by BJP MP Gautam Gambhir was brought to the attention of the Court during the hearing.
The court said political leaders have no business to hoard such medicines at a time when citizens are suffering and running around for such drugs. &lsquo;If their intention is to do public good, then they should surrender Covid drugs to Director General of Health Services (DGHS) who will then distribute it to government hospitals,&rsquo; the Court said.
HC also asked Delhi Police to file status report after conducting proper probe into hoarding of medicines.

Popular messaging service WhatsApp on Monday informed the Delhi high court that it would not defer its new privacy policy, which will take effect from May 15. Senior A

Popular messaging service WhatsApp on Monday informed the Delhi high court that it would not defer its new privacy policy, which will take effect from May 15.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for WhatsApp, said that it was trying to get users on board with the new policy.
The social media intermediary added that in case the users don't agree to its new policy, their accounts will slowly be deleted.
The updated policy will allow WhatsApp to share some data about users' interactions with business accounts with its parent company Facebook.

Amid reports that ventilators bought by the centre with PM CARES fund have technical glitches, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken a fresh swipe at PM Modi. Rahul co

Amid reports that ventilators bought by the centre with PM CARES fund have technical glitches, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken a fresh swipe at PM Modi. Rahul compared PM Modi to ventilators that are essential medical equipment for treating Covid patients.
Rahul Gandhi said both the PM and ventilator had "too much false PR", "don't do their respective jobs" and were "nowhere in sight when needed"
The centre has called the reports on faulty ventilators "unfounded".
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered an immediate audit of the process of installing and operating the ventilators
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