Lhasa [Tibet], August 10 (ANI): Authorities in several parts of Tibet have rolled out mass testing, including in the capital Lhasa after the region reported a string of Covid-19 cases in over two years.
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 30 (ANI): In Sri Lanka, which is battling a crushing economic crisis, is now facing another predicament with its women, most of them who have lost their jobs in the textile sector, now forced to become sex workers to earn a livelihood.
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Amid rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centre on Saturday advised states and union territories to ensure preparedness and asked to start setting up makeshift hospitals and constitute special teams to monitor patients in home isolation.
Patna Nov 30 PTI The Bihar assembly on Tuesday introduced and passed an amendment Bill that seeks to relax norms for meeting infrastructure requirements of private universities in the state The Bihar Private Universities Amendment Bill 2021 proposes that such institutes will be allowed to function from makeshift venues provided they meet all other conditionsBesides if they are unable to develop the prescribed built up area within the stipulated period of two years they will get another two years to complete it Introducing the Bill in the house Education Minister Vijay Choudhary said The move is aimed at facilitating early functioning of private universities to ensure improvement in the states gross enrolment ratio The state has received several proposals for setting up private universities and the process to scrutinise those applications will start very soon the minister saidBihar has no private university at presentThe assembly also passed the Bihar Technical Services Commission Amendment Bill 2021 which proposes to make certain changes in the administrative functioning of the CommissionRecruitment of doctors engineers and veterinary doctors in various government departments is done by Commission PTI PKD NN NN