Three kids among 4 burnt alive at Jaipur material packaging unit

 Officials said the place was being used to pack thinner for painting works

Four persons including three children were killed on Sunday after a fire broke out in a small painting material packaging unit in Jamwaramgarh area of the district, officials said. “The fire broke out in a hall constructed on a farmland. In the incident, three children and one man were burnt alive,” Jamwaramgarh Circle officer Shiv Kumar said. Officials said the place was being used to pack thinner for painting works. The deceased children belonged to a labourer’s family working and residing on the premises. Station House Officer Jogendra Singh said the two injured people have been admitted to the SMS hospital where their condition is stable…

Govt identifies 170 districts in India as hotspots, 207 potential hotspots

The officials said that health facilities in a buffer zone outside the containment zones will be oriented and people facing SARI and influenza-like symptoms will be tested there

The Union Health Ministry has identified 170 districts as Covid-19 hotspots and 207 districts as potential hotspots, officials said on Wednesday, reiterating that there has been no community transmission of the disease in the country so far.

Addressing the daily briefing on coronavirus situation in the country, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said that states have been asked to classify districts which have reported a higher number of cases as hotspots, the districts where cases have been reported as non-hotspots, and green zones where no cases have been reported. “Hotspots are those districts which are reporting more number of cases or where the rate of growth of Covid-19 cases is high,” Agarwal said, adding a detailed direction has been issued to states stating consolidated efforts are required to utilise this period of lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.

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“Cabinet secretary held a video conference today with all chief secretaries, DGPs, health secretaries, collectors, SPs, municipal commissioners and CMOs where hotspots were discussed and orientation on field level implementation of containment strategy was given.”

“They were told about large outbreak containment strategies, cluster containment strategies. Delineation of buffer and containment zone, parameter mapping, defining of entry and exit points were also discussed in detail,” he said. The joint secretary said movement of people will not be allowed in containment zones except for those related with essential services and special teams will search for new cases and samples will be collected and tested as per sampling criteria.

Punjab job crisis: Note ban haunts as labour pleads for work at 1/3rd wages

Most end up consenting to compensation as low as Rs 150-Rs 200 while the official the lowest pay permitted by law is Rs 311.12 for an untalented worker and Rs 375.62 for a talented worker

Stress had put profound wrinkles on Balkara Singh’s temple however he was only 32 years of age. The day by day wage specialist, wearing a blurred blue sweater and pants, has gone to the Gol Diggi work center in southern Punjab’s Bathinda city each and every day throughout the previous five years to search for employments. Since the finish of 2016, he has returned home frustrated generally days. As well as could be expected trust in were around 10 days of work in a month, he said.

Neediness drove Balkara out of school when he was in Class 2 and his solitary dream was to see his kids – matured four and six- – complete their training. His little house in Amargarh town where he lives with his significant other, kids and guardians, is around 14 km from Gol Diggi. It takes two transport changes and Rs 30 to achieve the center point.

When we met Balkara toward the beginning of April 2019, he was never again beyond any doubt if his fantasy could ever worked out as expected. The move by the Narendra Modi government in November 2016 to pull back 86% of India’s money, by esteem, had thumped the scrape the bottom of the easygoing employments division which kept running on money installments – farming, little scale material units, chaotic retail organizations, and the travel industry as IndiaSpend has announced.

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Five million men, for the most part from the chaotic segment, lost their employments over the two years following demonetisation, said another report ‘Territory of Working India 2019’. This most recent gauge of occupation misfortunes was distributed by the Center for Sustainable Employment (CSE), Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and discharged on April 16, 2019. The numbers would have spiraled if ladies somehow managed to be incorporated into the examination. As Punjab cast a ballot on May 19 in the progressing general races to the Lok Sabha, we investigate the state’s casual occupations emergency.

The joblessness rate in Punjab in November 2016- – when demonetisation was reported – was 4.9%, which expanded to 6.1% in December 2016 as indicated by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, a consultancy. This joblessness rate achieved 8.9% in June 2017 and further expanded to 9.2% on the main commemoration of demonetisation in November 2017. In October 2018, the figure achieved 11.7%, and by February 2019, recorded 12.4%…

US-based journalist says MJ Akbar raped her while she was at Asian Age

The journalist, Pallavi Gogoi, narrated her alleged ordeal in a detailed column for the Washington Post, published on November 1

A former Asian Age employee has accused MJ Akbar of raping her at a hotel in Jaipur over two decades ago. The journalist, who is presently based in United States, has also claimed that she faced harassment at the hands of the former minister while working as the editor of the publication’s op-ed page at the age of 23.

The journalist, Pallavi Gogoi, narrated her alleged ordeal in a detailed column for the Washington Post, published on November 1.

Recounting the details of the alleged incident, Gogoi claims that she was once in Jaipur after covering an assignment in a remote village, when MJ Akbar called her to his hotel for discussing a story. Upon reaching there, she was raped by the former editor of Asian Age, the woman alleged.

“In his hotel room, even though I fought him, he was physically more powerful. He ripped off my clothes and raped me. Instead of reporting him to the police, I was filled with shame. I didn’t tell anyone about this then. Would anyone have believed me? I blamed myself. Why did I go to the hotel room?” she wrote.

She further claimed that the incident left her broken and destroyed and she couldn’t muster courage at the time to share it with her immediate colleagues.

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