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Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy’s demic preparedness a part of the cur- Odisha will stand out in saving IRREGULAR by MANJUL Laboratories (DRL) for purchase of riculum in schools and colleges. all-time high 5,000 sachets of 2DG drugs. The price Every student, elected representa- peoples’ lives of 2DG has been fixed at `990 per sa- tive, government official, Mission NAVEEN PATNAIK | CHIEF MINISTER PRESS TRUST OF INDIA diesel comes for `92.17 chet. The drug will be of immense Shakti member and other stakehold- per litre. benefit to the people suffering from ers will be trained in disaster as well of disaster and pandemic manage- New Delhi, May 29: Petrol Fuel prices differ from Covid-19, sources said. as pandemic preparedness. n The Council of Ministers headed ment. Government jobs and recruitment price Saturday crossed the state to state depending While the product has been soft- by Chief Minister Naveen will have a mandatory syllabus on dis- `100-a-litre mark in Mumbai on the incidence of local launched a couple of weeks ago, the COUNCIL OF MINISTERS’ MEET Patnaik Saturday passed a aster and pandemic management. after the 15th increase in taxes such as VAT and commercial launch and supply of 2DG “This is a historic step and will en- resolution to make disaster and Similarly, all elected public repre- fuel prices this month. freight charges. Rajasthan to major government and private hos- able and empower our future genera- pandemic preparedness a part sentatives starting from ward mem- Petrol price was in- levies the highest value- pitals is expected to commence in mid- tions to withstand the vagaries of na- of the curriculum in schools and bers to Chief Minister will be trained creased by 26 paise per litre added tax (VAT) on petrol June. ture whether it’s biological or climatic. colleges on disaster and pandemic manage- and diesel by 28 paise a litre, in the country, followed The 2DG drug can be administered Odisha will stand out in saving peoples’ n Every student, elected ment. Besides, members of the Mission according to a price notifi- by Madhya Pradesh and only on prescription to hospitalised lives. It flows from our realisation that representative, government Sakti groups, Vana Surakya Samitis, cation of state-owned fuel Maharashtra. Covid patients suffering from moder- community preparedness is key to official, Mission Shakti member and other community-based organi- retailers. The increase - We just need documents ate to severe symptoms. disaster management,” Naveen said. and other stakeholders will be sations will be equipped with the 15th this month - took petrol CITY FUEL PRICES to see if you can afford According to a statement issued by The world has changed its percep- trained in disaster as well as knowledge required to manage dis- and diesel prices to a fresh PETROL `94.72 (+0.26) fuel cost pandemic preparedness the Union government, clinical trial tion about Odisha’s ability to deal asters and pandemics. all-time high across the DIESEL `92.55 (+0.30) data of the drug shows that the mole- with disasters in the course of the The Council of Ministers has re- country. cule helps in faster recovery of pa- last two decades. There was a time known emergencies and how to re- solved to undertake systematic and The price of petrol, which In Delhi, the petrol price DOMESTIC FLIGHTS TO tients hospitalised with Covid-19, and when we evoked pity. Today, the Odisha spond to situations where the out- detailed training programmes to equip had already crossed the rose to `93.94 a litre and reduces their dependence on supple- model of disaster management draws come cannot be predicted,” read the res- the citizens with adequate knowledge `100-mark in several cities diesel to `84.89. COST MORE FROM JUNE 1 mental oxygen. global admiration. olution passed by the panel. and skills in disaster and pandemic in Rajasthan, Madhya This is the 15th increase The drug accumulates in cells in- “The time has come for us to create Now, every high school and college management and make Odisha a lead- Pradesh and Maharashtra, in prices since May 4, when NEW DELHI: Flights within the fected by coronavirus and prevents a massive knowledge infrastructure in student will learn about disaster and ing state in disaster preparedness - breached the psychologi- state-owned oil firms ended country are set to become costlier the growth of the virus by stopping viral the state that will make everyone a pandemic management as part of their whether it’s biological or climatic. cal barrier in Mumbai an 18-day hiatus in rate re- as the Ministry of Civil Aviation synthesis and energy production. Its warrior. Today, we are taking a fu- curriculum. The government will train The main objective of the resolution Saturday. vision they observed during (MoCA) has decided to raise the selective accumulation in virally-in- turistic decision. We will train our every government employee on the is to have a ‘Yodha’ in every home of Petrol now costs `100.19 Assembly elections in states lower limit on domestic airfares fected cells makes this drug unique. people at large on how to deal with fundamental nature of different kinds Odisha, a statement read. a litre in Mumbai and like West Bengal. from 13 per cent to 16 per cent, which will come into effect from June 1. As per an order by MoCA Friday, “Fare for domestic travel less CASTING HIS NET than 40 minutes of duration will be ` hiked by `2,300 to `2,600, which is Centre to borrow 1.58 trn 13 per cent of the current fare.” Flights with duration between 40 minutes to one hour will have fares at a lower limit of `3,300. The fares for such flights were earlier to compensate tax shortfall capped by the ministry at `2,900. Similarly, for flights of duration AGENCIES ing, which the council’s first for eight between 60-90 minutes airfare will months, disappointed some of its mem- be charged at `4,000, 90-120 min- New Delhi, May 29: The Centre will bers and experts, after it deferred re- utes at `4,700, 150-180 minutes at borrow `1.58 trillion ($22 billion) from ducing taxes on Covid-19 related med- `6,100 and 180-210 minutes will cost the market to compensate the states ical equipments and medicines. `7,400. Currently, the airfare for for a shortfall in tax receipts this fis- “The council has failed to address flights in the above period is cheaper cal year, but it deferred cutting taxes major pain points of the industry and by `300 to `1,000. In other words, for on medicines and medical equipments the common man resulting from the instance, a Delhi-Mumbai flight used to treat Covid-19 patients. The Goods and Services Tax (GST), pandemic,” said Rajat Bose, partner at will cost `700 more than the current This borrowing would be additional India’s biggest tax reform, was intro- Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, fare. An increase in airfares has to the `12 trillion ($166 billion) it already duced in 2017 to replace an array of fed- a law firm.Sitharaman said that a been attributed on the capacity of plans to raise in the fiscal year that eral and state duties. State govern- committee would be set up to look the load factors of the passengers. started April 1. ments were promised compensation into reducing rates of various medical A sudden increase of coronavirus India’s deadly second wave of coron- through a surcharge on taxes on lux- equipments and medicines. The com- cases in the second wave of Covid avirus that killed thousands of people in ury goods for five years to ensure 14% mittee would submit its report in the pandemic showed a decrease in the last two months is now threatening annual growth in GST revenue. coming 10 days, she added. domestic air travel. an economic revival that had begun to Union Finance Minister Nirmala “GST #COVID19 relief put on hold take hold since the beginning of the Sitharaman told the media after the for lack of compassion by the Union year. The economy is showing signs of meeting with the Goods and Services Government,” Manpreet Singh Badal, distress, such as falling tax collections Tax Council, which she chairs and in- Finance Minister of Punjab tweeted REMAINING IPL and slump in sales of a variety of goods, cludes all state Finance Ministers of after the meeting.