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Government laws. sentatives of MeitY on “safe- the post of a compliance offi- Centre is at loggerheads with Taking suo motu cogni- personnel and police personnel #7-643601//42/5 At the meeting, Twitter guarding citizens’ rights and cer and who is competent the microblogging site over sance of the photographs, the in markets to enforce social dis- ) ## ! ! ) India was represented by its prevention of misuse of authority to decide. To which the new Information and HC initiated a PIL, directing tancing. A status report was #.32.,701-2445 legal counsel Ayushi Kapoor social/online news media plat- Twitter representatives said Technology (IT) rules and the the Centre, the Delhi also been called for. The mat- ! ! &23 <=& and senior manager for public forms, including special they will respond in writing alleged “Congress toolkit” Government and the Delhi ter will be taken up for hearing # /.434401/265 policy Shagufta Kamran. emphasis on women security in and that they need to consult case. Police to file status reports. on July 7. )% ! . 6 ! R #$ %& elhi Chief Minister Arvind DKejriwal on Friday dis- cussed the action plan and roadmap with the Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal in view of the possible third wave of Covid-19 infection in the national Capital. he Supreme Court on Justices Hemant Gupta and V UAPA has been “turned upside The Delhi Government is TFriday said the bail grant- Ramasubramanian termed as down” by the high court in making its preparations based ed by the Delhi High Court to “troubling” that the High Court granting bail in the case, the on the possibility of likely three student-activists in Delhi has written 100 pages dis- bench said that the issue is 37,000 and maximum 45,000 riot cases will continue but the cussing the entire anti-terror important and can have pan- corona cases per day during the According to a senior offi- bail could not be treated as law UAPA while deciding the India ramifications. possible third wave. cial, the Chief Minister dis- precedent in cases under the bail applications in the case and “We would like to issue “A State-level task force, cussed in detail about the State- Unlawful Activities said it will require interpreta- notice and hear the other side,” more healthcare staff and a spe- level task force constituted by (Prevention) Act (UAPA). tion by the apex court. While said the bench. Mehta urged cial task force for treatment of the Delhi Government to Solicitor General Tushar refusing to stay the High Court the apex court to stay the high children are part of the Delhi increase the number of health Mehta, representing the Delhi verdicts granting bail to the court verdicts saying the find- Government’s action plan to workers and pediatric task Police, argued that the Delhi three accused, the bench said ings arrived at in these judg- deal with the third wave,” the force to streamline effective $ HC’s bail order given to JNU that these judgments will not be ments “virtually record acquit- Chief Minister’s office treatment of children from P students Natasha Narwal and treated as precedent by any tal for these accused” and other tweeted. corona. Devangana Kalita and Jamia party before any court. co-accused would also seek A presentation inclusive The Chief Minister also '() student Asif Iqbal Tanha had “It is clarified that release bail relying on them. “The of all the extensive prepared- informed the L-G about totally turned upside down of the respondents (Narwal, way the Act has been inter- ness measures was made to the “Pressure Swing Adsorption” * the UAPA provisions. This bail Kalita and Tanha) on bail is not preted, probably it will require L-G, highlighting the enhanced (PSA) oxygen plant, Cryogenic order has gone like a mini trial interfered with at this stage,” the interpretation by the Supreme healthcare infrastructure that Plant, LMO Storage Plant, on the UAPA enacted by bench said. Taking note of Court. That is why we are the Delhi Government has Oxygen and bed management !" # Parliament, said Mehta. Solicitor General Tushar issuing notice,” the bench been persistently building since in hospitals, arrangement of The vacation bench of Mehta’s submission that the said. the pandemic. medicines and vaccination. he Central Government is tudies among healthcare Tlikely to hold discussions Sworkers have shown that with all regional parties in # following vaccination the Jammu & Kashmir before the chances of hospitalisation end of this month as part of its reduce by 75-80 per cent, while initiatives to bolster political % &' (!&) oxygen requirement comes processes, including holding down to 8 per cent even after assembly elections, in the !" decided to accept the has been enhanced from Rs contracting Covid-19, the union territory, officials said Commission's majority of the 3,500-plus dearness allowance Government said on Friday. here on Friday. recommendations, which has (DA) to Rs 9000 plus DA per Addressing a Press confer- Paul said in one particular The Central leadership all along been demanded by the month. ence, NITI Aayog Member study, there was one death out may even invite National # $%&' state government employees. The expected amount of (Health) Dr VK Paul said in of 7,000 cases and it was also Conference chief Farooq ith the aim of fighting the !("''' As per the decision, the net arrears from January 1, these studies, which have been because the person had comor- Abdullah, PDP chairperson Wmodern-day war cohe- minimum pay for a govern- 2016, to June 30, 2021, is esti- conducted among healthcare bidities. Mehbooba Mufti, Altaf sively, the Government has ment employee will increase mated to be around Rs 13,800 workers who fall in the high “Similar studies in other Bukhari of the Jammu & formed a committee of three &)*# from Rs 6,950 to Rs 18,000 per crore.Punjab Government risk group, also showed that the countries have also shown the Kashmir Apni Party, People’s Vice Chiefs to find ways to month. With the implementa- employees have already been risk of ICU admission remains protection vaccine gives.

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