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  • 12 youngsters fall in poor health after consuming toxic fruits in Himachal’s Una

    By PTI

    UNA: Twelve youngsters of migrant labourers have been admitted to the regional hospital in Una district of Himachal Pradesh after they complained of vomiting and abdomen ache, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    The youngsters dwelling with their households in Lalsinghi village swallowed toxic fruits from a close-by forest when their dad and mom had gone to work final night.

    The youngsters have been aged between three to 9 years, officers mentioned.

    Dr Vikash Chauhan, a paediatrician on the hospital, mentioned when the kids have been delivered to the well being facility their situation was crucial.

    After the right treatment, they’re steady now, he added. Una police have began an investigation into the matter.

    UNA: Twelve youngsters of migrant labourers have been admitted to the regional hospital in Una district of Himachal Pradesh after they complained of vomiting and abdomen ache, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    The youngsters dwelling with their households in Lalsinghi village swallowed toxic fruits from a close-by forest when their dad and mom had gone to work final night.

    The youngsters have been aged between three to 9 years, officers mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Dr Vikash Chauhan, a paediatrician on the hospital, mentioned when the kids have been delivered to the well being facility their situation was crucial.

    After the right treatment, they’re steady now, he added. Una police have began an investigation into the matter.

  • Tejashwi Yadav refutes allegations of ‘assaults’ on Bihar staff in Tamil Nadu

    By Online Desk

    PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday refuted that staff from Bihar are going through assaults from native individuals in Tamil Nadu. He mentioned that if there have been any such “attacks,” as some sections claimed, the state governments of Bihar and Tamil Nadu will act instantly.

    Tejashwi identified that the Bihar authorities has deployed a staff to Tamil Nadu to take inventory within the wake of social media rumours concerning the plight of migrant staff from Bihar in Tamil Nadu.

    It could also be recalled that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin already had a telephonic dialog along with his counterpart Nitish Kumar and guaranteed him that migrant staff are protected in Tamil Nadu.

    Meanwhile, Tejashwi urged the Centre to step in and take motion towards these circulating disinformation on social media.

    “Can you see any concern from the Centre in this matter?,” he questioned as he urged the Centre to step in and take motion towards these spreading rumours.

    Tejashwi had come beneath assault from BJP for attending Stalin’s birthday when staff from the state are allegedly going through “attacks” in Tamil Nadu.

    PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday refuted that staff from Bihar are going through assaults from native individuals in Tamil Nadu. He mentioned that if there have been any such “attacks,” as some sections claimed, the state governments of Bihar and Tamil Nadu will act instantly.

    Tejashwi identified that the Bihar authorities has deployed a staff to Tamil Nadu to take inventory within the wake of social media rumours concerning the plight of migrant staff from Bihar in Tamil Nadu.

    It could also be recalled that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin already had a telephonic dialog along with his counterpart Nitish Kumar and guaranteed him that migrant staff are protected in Tamil Nadu.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Meanwhile, Tejashwi urged the Centre to step in and take motion towards these circulating disinformation on social media.

    “Can you see any concern from the Centre in this matter?,” he questioned as he urged the Centre to step in and take motion towards these spreading rumours.

    Tejashwi had come beneath assault from BJP for attending Stalin’s birthday when staff from the state are allegedly going through “attacks” in Tamil Nadu.

  • Two labourers from UP killed in grenade assault in J-Okay, LeT ‘hybrid terrorist’ arrested

    By PTI

    SRINAGAR: Two migrant labourers have been killed after terrorists hurled a grenade at them in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir within the early hours of Tuesday, police mentioned.

    An area “hybrid terrorist” of the proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was arrested for the assault throughout a search and cordon operation, they mentioned.

    “Hybrid terrorists” are unlisted radicalised individuals who perform terror strikes and slip again into their routine lives usually with out leaving any hint.

    Below are hyperlinks to different such assaults in Jammu and Kashmir:

    1. Four militants killed in separate encounters in J-K’s Shopian 

    2. Cop killed, CRPF personnel injured in militant assault in J&K’s Pulwama

    3. Encounter breaks out between militants and safety forces in J&K’s Kulgam

    4. Two militants concerned in assault on labourer killed

    5. Kashmiri Pandit shot useless, brother injured in militant assault in J&K’s Shopian

    SRINAGAR: Two migrant labourers have been killed after terrorists hurled a grenade at them in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir within the early hours of Tuesday, police mentioned.

    An area “hybrid terrorist” of the proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was arrested for the assault throughout a search and cordon operation, they mentioned.

    “Hybrid terrorists” are unlisted radicalised individuals who perform terror strikes and slip again into their routine lives usually with out leaving any hint.

    Below are hyperlinks to different such assaults in Jammu and Kashmir:

    1. Four militants killed in separate encounters in J-K’s Shopian 

    2. Cop killed, CRPF personnel injured in militant assault in J&K’s Pulwama

    3. Encounter breaks out between militants and safety forces in J&K’s Kulgam

    4. Two militants concerned in assault on labourer killed

    5. Kashmiri Pandit shot useless, brother injured in militant assault in J&K’s Shopian

  • Odisha hand-chopping case: Ninth convict sentenced to 10 years RI

    By Express News Service
    BHAWANIPATNA: Additional District and Sessions Judge of Dharamgarh Bandana Kar on Monday sentenced a person to bear rigorous imprisonment of 10 years for his alleged involvement in chopping off the palms of two migrant labourers eight years in the past.

    The convict Parshuram Nayak (45) of Nuaguda in Kalahandi district was an affiliate of middlemen, who had minimize off the proper palms of the labourers as punishment for his or her attempting to flee in December 2013. Nayak has additionally been ordered to pay a positive of Rs 15,000.

    According to the prosecution, Nayak had assisted the middlemen to find two migrant labourers – Deyalu Nial and Nilambar Dhangda Majhi – a part of a 12-member crew from Nuaguda and Pipalguda villages underneath Jaipatna police limits.

    The middlemen had supplied them Rs 10,000 every as advance to work in a brick manufacturing unit at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. After arriving at Raipur when the middlemen despatched them to Hyderabad from Raipur in a practice, the labourers sensing bother had de-boarded the practice at completely different stations and returned house.

    But Nial and Majhi had been caught by the middlemen and their associates who adopted them upon studying that they had been heading in the direction of their house. They had been then taken to a forest close to Sindhekella within the Balangir district.

    Public Prosecutor Thabir Sahu stated the middlemen and their associates first demanded a ransom of Rs 2 lakh every over the cellphone from the relations of the labourers. When the latter expressed their incapability to satisfy the demand, they’d chopped off the labourers’ proper arms from beneath the wrist.

    “Altogether nine persons were involved in the gory incident that had grabbed national headlines. While eight middlemen and their associates were arrested, Nayak was absconding. The eight were sentenced to life in 2016 and Nayak was nabbed in the same year,” Sahu stated.

    The different accused serving life imprisonment are Parbesh Dundi, Baikuntha Rout, Arjun Bhoi, Gangadhar Das, Bana Majhi, Jaisen Thela, Bimal Rout and Mantu Nial. The State authorities had paid a compensation of Rs 5 lakh every to the victims. 

    Unable to bear the agony and trauma, Majhi had died earlier than the pronouncement of the judgement. 

  • Six months after lockdown lifted, no let-up in MNREGS demand

    SIX MONTHS after the easing of restrictions and phase-wise opening of the financial system in view of the dip in coronavirus circumstances, the demand for work underneath the MNREGS continues to stay excessive, with almost two crore or extra households availing the agricultural job assure scheme each month.
    In reality, the variety of households availing the MNREGS within the final two months, December and January, is on the similar degree as in August and September final 12 months, when coronavirus circumstances have been at their peak.
    In all, 7.17 crore households (10.51 crore people) had already availed the MNREGS until February 17 within the present monetary 12 months (April 1, 2020 onwards) — an all-time excessive for a monetary 12 months for the reason that inception of the scheme in 2006.
    With lakhs of migrant employees returning to their villages following the Covid-19 lockdown, the MNREGS has seen unprecedented demand for unskilled work. A month-to-month evaluation reveals that the demand peaked in June 2020, when 3.89 crore households — 80% increased than June 2019 — availed the scheme. The July 2020 determine of two.75 crore was 83% increased than July 2019’s.

    ExplainedLong street backTHE MNREGS figures for the previous two months are the identical as when the coronavirus was its peak. The unflagging demand for the agricultural job scheme reveals that unskilled labourers are struggling to seek out work regardless of the phased opening up of the financial system.

    In August, September and October 2020, the variety of households that availed the MNREGS remained round two crore – 62% to 82% increased than the corresponding figures for a similar months within the earlier fiscal. Though the numbers fell in November, the decline was marginal (to 1.84 crore), and nonetheless 47% increased than those that signed up for the MNREGS in November 2019. December 2020 and January 2021 once more noticed an increase, to 2.08 crore (46.8% increased than December 2019) and a couple of.05 crore households (30.36% increased than January 2020) respectively.

    While the lockdown lasted two months (April-May) after which the phased unlocking started, the numbers present that the MNREGS demand stays excessive.

    The highest spurt in demand has been registered from states like Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
    Over 40 lakh households have accomplished the complete 100 days employment until date within the present monetary 12 months.
    As a part of the financial bundle introduced in response to Covid, the federal government has declared further funding of Rs 40,000 crore for the MNREGS, over and above the Rs 61,500 crore allotted within the Union Budget 2020-21. With this hike, the MNREGS annual funds has crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore determine for the primary time ever

  • Man provided pretend Covid experiences to migrant employees, arrested

    By Express News Service
    PARADIP: With the pandemic nonetheless looming giant, a racket feeding on desperation of employees, together with the migrants, to safe Covid detrimental certificates was busted by Abhaychandpur police right here on Saturday.The accused, Kalandi Tarai, 35, was discovered to be supplying pretend Covid detrimental certificates to migrant employees of various industries in Paradip. A local of Dalimpur village, he runs a cellphone store. 

    There are a whole bunch of migrant employees employed in several industries together with Paradip Refinery of IOCL. Post lockdown, native in addition to nationwide industries resumed operations and accepted employees who produced Covid-19 detrimental experiences. Taking benefit of this, Tarai provided pretend certificates for Rs 500-1000 apiece. Many individuals additionally allegedly collected pretend Covid-19 detrimental certificates from the accused to journey abroad.

    Acting on a tip off, Abhaychandpur police arrested Tarai and seized from his possession incriminating paperwork. Police discovered pretend Covid-19 certificates, seized a pc lab and cellphone store. “We have raided a pc lab and seized two pretend Covid-19 experiences and plenty of photocopies of pretend certificates and character certificates.

    Computers, laptops and different gear used to fabricate the certificates have additionally been seized. Investigation of native employees has helped unearth the racket,” stated IIC of Abhyachandpur police station Jugal Das. The accused was produced earlier than a courtroom.

    As per allegations being investigated, individuals who didn’t take a look at constructive for Covid-19 nor had signs of the illness additionally collected  pretend Covid-19 detrimental certificates to rejoin responsibility or get extra advantages from the corporate or authorities. Jagatsinghpur has reported 9,126 Covid constructive instances out of which 9,064 have recovered. Active instances at present stand at 24 whereas 38 individuals succumbed to the lethal virus.

  • Amid Covid, an NREGS first: 10 crore individuals used scheme

    As the financial system plunged into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic, the variety of staff who availed the National Rural Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has crossed the 10-crore mark for the primary time, marking an unprecedented demand for the agricultural job scheme.
    Latest information obtainable on the NREGS portal reveals that until January 10 within the present monetary 12 months, over 10 crore people throughout the nation labored beneath the scheme, which is 21 per cent larger than the 7.89 crore determine for 2019-2020. With two months nonetheless remaining within the present monetary 12 months, the quantity is anticipated to go up additional.
    The 10-crore quantity is the best for the reason that inception of the scheme in 2006 – the earlier excessive was in 2011-12, when 8.2 crore people availed the scheme.
    West Bengal has seen the best numbers this monetary 12 months, with 1.07 crore people availing the scheme till January 10. The state is adopted by Uttar Pradesh (1.06 crore), Rajasthan (99.25 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (91.62 lakh), Andhra Pradesh (77.57 lakh) and Tamil Nadu (75.37 lakh).

    ExplainedA security internetThe unprecedented bounce in demand for unskilled work beneath NREGS is a pointer to the financial misery in rural areas. In wake of the pandemic, the scheme has emerged as a security internet for crores of unskilled staff, notably migrant staff.

    Under MGNREGS, each rural family, whose grownup members volunteer to do unskilled guide work, is entitled to at the least 100 days of wage employment in a monetary 12 months.
    The variety of households availing the scheme too has reached an all-time excessive of 6.87 crore till January 10 this monetary 12 months. In 2019-2020, 5.48 crore households availed the scheme.
    The present monetary 12 months has additionally seen an unprecedented enhance within the variety of new job playing cards issued beneath the scheme. So far, 1.49 crore households (or 2.68 crore people) have gotten new job playing cards — greater than double of the 68.26 lakh households (1.27 lakh people) in all of 2019-20.
    The variety of person-days generated up to now this monetary 12 months too has reached an all-time excessive of 302 crore, up from 265 crore person-days final monetary 12 months.

    The expenditure beneath NREGA has reached an all-time excessive, with Rs 87,520 crore of the Rs-1-lakh crore allotted to the scheme being spent.
    As a part of the financial bundle introduced within the response to Covid, the federal government declared an extra funding of Rs 40,000 crore for NREGS, over and above the Rs 61,500 crore allotted within the Union Budget 2020-21. With this hike, the NREGS finances has crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore determine for the primary time ever.