Delhi HC directs MAMC to constitute medical board to look into child’s death in private hospital \
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Delhi HC directs MAMC to constitute medical board to look into child’s death in private hospital

25-Jul-2022
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): The Delhi High Court recently directed Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) to constitute a medical board to give a report on the death of a two and half-year-old child in a private hospital.
25-Jul-2022 National
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Delhi HC rejects former DMC chief’s plea seeking enhanced salary \
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Delhi HC rejects former DMC chief’s plea seeking enhanced salary

06-Jul-2022
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a plea moved by Dr Zafarul Islam Khan, former Chief of Delhi Minority Commission (DMC) seeking direction for a grant of enhanced salary of Rs 2 lakh per month for the post.
06-Jul-2022 National
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Over 600 families in Sri Lanka affected by floods, landslides \
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Over 600 families in Sri Lanka affected by floods, landslides

15-May-2022
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 15 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Sunday said that over 600 families in the Island nation have been affected by floods and landslides as the rainy weather prevails in the country.
15-May-2022 World
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Delhi EC suspends preparations for civic body polls as Centre notifies DMC merger act \
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Delhi EC suspends preparations for civic body polls as Centre notifies DMC merger act

21-Apr-2022
New Delhi Apr 21 PTI The State Election Commission of Delhi has put on hold preparations for the municipal corporation polls that were due to be held in April after the Centre notified the DMC Amendment Act 2022 to merge the three civic bodies State Election Commissioner of Delhi SK Srivastava before his retirement on Wednesday issued a notification to stop the preparatory steps for the civic body polls He also rescinded various notifications issued earlier by the commission for the appointment of electoral officers for the civic body polls pursuant to the enactment of The Delhi Municipal Corporation Amendment Act 2022 whereby the three municipal corporations in Delhi have ceased to exist and have been replaced by a unified single Municipal Corporation I SK Srivastava state election commissioner do hereby keep on hold all preparatory steps for the conduct of general election to three municipal corporations of Delhi and rescind the notifications with immediate effect the notification read The notifications now rescinded by the commission include those issued for the appointment of electoral registration officers-cum-returning officers for the wards of the three corporations district election officer for the wards observers and other officials for the municipal corporation polls Srivastava had in March deferred the announcement of dates for the municipal corporation polls amid a press conference saying he had received a communication from the Centre He had said the Centre was planning unification of the North East and South Delhi Municipal Corporations Vijay Dev on Thursday took charge as the new state election commissioner of Delhi He took voluntary retirement as the chief secretary of the Delhi government on April 20 Elections to the three corporations were last held on April 23 2017 The five-year term of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation will end on May 18 South Delhi Municipal Corporation a day later and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on May 22 The Delhi Municipal Corporation Amendment Act 2022 lays down bringing down the existing number of 272 wards to 250 It will require ward redrawing exercise that is expected to delay the civic body polls for several months officials said PTI VIT VIT CJ CJ
21-Apr-2022 National
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EDMC takes action against teachers absent on duty for inordinately long time \
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EDMC takes action against teachers absent on duty for inordinately long time

19-Jan-2022
New Delhi Jan 19 PTI East Delhi Municipal Corporation has cracked the whip against such municipal school teachers who have been absent on duty for an inordinately long time including termination of services of some of them officials said on WednesdayThe action has been initiated in the last few days they saidThe EDMC in a statement on Wednesday said In a bid to streamline and improve the performance of its schools the East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started taking action against such teachers in EDMC schools who have been absent for more than five years without any satisfactory reasons for the sameAll the teachers who had been on long leave have been given notices to resume work or give valid reasons for continued leave or absence Some of the teachers had remained absent after taking leave initially it saidConsequently in some of the cases where no satisfactory replies had been received under the provisions of amended Leave Rules and DMC Regulations 1959 the services of the teachers have been terminated after following due procedure the EDMC saidIn the remaining such cases due process is in progress for termination of the services of teachers who are no more interested to join back or willfully absenting themselves officials saidHowever the corporation did not reveal the number of teachers whose services have been terminatedThis process will also help EDMC identify the actual gap in sanctioned strength of teachers and actual strengthEDMC will recruit new teachers based on the final assessment of the gap which in turn will ensure that the corporation provides better and quality education to the students in primary schools and maintain the requisite PTR pupil teacher ratio and the quality education of the children is not affected the statement saidIt is the primary responsibility of the corporation to provide quality education to the children studying in corporation schools and all efforts will be made to ensure the same officials said PTI KND RHL
19-Jan-2022 National
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Punjab: 41 students of nursing college in Ludhiana test COVID positive \
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Punjab: 41 students of nursing college in Ludhiana test COVID positive

05-Jan-2022
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], January 5 (ANI): As many as 41 students of a nursing college in Ludhiana tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
05-Jan-2022 National
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