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Mar 29, 2019

India Despatches Fourth Ship to Mozambique

The Indian Navy has despatched a fourth ship to Mozambique hit by tropical cyclone Idai to assist in disaster relief.
INS Magar, an amphibious warfare vessel, departed Mumbai for Port Beira in Mozambique with essential relief material for the cyclone ravaged areas.
The warship is carrying 300 tonnes of relief supplies, including essential medicines, anti-epidemic drugs, food provisions, clothing, repair and rehabilitation equipment, and temporary shelters.
INS Magar will join INS Sujata , Shardul and Sarathithat are already operating there for over 10 days.

Government Defends Move on Finance Act

The Centre defended the passing of the Finance Act, 2017 as a Money Bill.
Arguing before a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal said that the Lok Sabha Speaker's certification of the Money Bill was final. The Centre countered the allegation that the passing of Finance Act, 2017 as a Money Bill was a colourable exercise of power and a fraud on the Constitution.
The Constitution Bench is hearing a clutch of petitions, including one by Member of Parliament Jairam Ramesh, challenging certain provisions of the Finance Act, 2017 which modify the terms of appointment and functioning in various statutory tribunals, including the National Green Tribunal.

Mar 28, 2019

Woman Candidate in Fray

For the first time in the history of parliamentary elections in Mizoram, a woman candidate has filed nomination for the state's lone Lok Sabha seat.
Lalthlamuani will be contesting as an Independent candidate against five male rivals in the constituency reserved for scheduled tribes (ST). Mizoram, which has a total electorate of 770,395, goes to the polls on April 11.
Lalthlamuani had contested the Aizawl South-I constituency in last year's assembly polls as well but had secured just 69 votes. This time, she will contest the lone Lok Sabha seat, currently held by the Congress.
Although woman voters (4,02,408) outnumber men (3,81,991) in Mizoram, they don't have enough representation in legislative bodies.

Drama in Goa as MGP Splits

Deepak Pausakar, one of the two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) MLAs who joined the BJP was sworn in as a Minister in the BJP-led coalition government by Goa Governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and his Cabinet colleagues, among others, were present.
Hours after the two joined the BJP, Mr. Sawant had dropped Deputy Chief Minister and senior MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar from the Cabinet.
The Congress and the BJP now have 14 MLAs each in the House, whose current strength is 36. Four seats in the 40-member Assembly are vacant.

Mar 27, 2019

Hathin MLA Kehar Singh Joins BJP

Four days after Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Nalwa, Ranbir Singh Gangwa joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), another INLD MLA Kehar Singh of Hathin constituency joined hands with the saffron party.
Kehar Singh was taken into the fold of saffron party by Haryana BJP president Subhash Barala and national general secretary and Haryana in-charge Anil Jain at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
Besides Kehar Singh, the first Indian Paralympics medalist Deepa Malik also joined the BJP in New Delhi.
Malik is the first Indian woman athlete to have won a medal at Paralympics with her silver in the women's shotput event at the Rio Games in 2016.

Army Most Trusted Institution

According to a report, the Army is India's most trusted institution followed by the judiciary while the police, government officials and political parties are the least trusted.
Bengaluru's Azim Premji University and Delhi-based research institute Lokniti Centre For the Study of Developing Societies' report titled Politics and Society Between Elections (2019) is based on a survey of public opinion related to politics, society, and governance between elections.
The survey was conducted in Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, and the National Capital Region of Delhi.
According to the report, the key concern among those between the ages of 18 and 35 (49%) was related to jobs.

Mar 26, 2019

GJM Splits over BJP Candidate

Swaraj Thapa, the spokesman of the Bimal Gurung faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), has quit the party in protest against the BJP foisting a rank outsider on the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat.
The BJP has announced the name of Raju Singh Bista, a businessman, as its candidate from Darjeeling, where the GJM's support is crucial.

Citizenship Bill Binds Rivals

Rivals in the battle of the ballot across Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram seem to be bound by a common cause, opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
They include candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has vowed to get the Bill passed, if voted back to power.
There are State-specific issues, such as the elusive settlement to the Naga peace process in Nagaland and bridging the gap between the hills and plain dwellers of Manipur.
But thwarting the Bill is the overriding issue, most intensely in Mizoram where a regional party went to the extent, inviting a notice from the Election Commission in the process, of seeking the right to secede if the Bill is passed.
The three States have four Lok Sabha constituencies among them — two in Manipur and one each in Mizoram and Nagaland.
These seats, represented by those on the country's fringes, matter when mainstream political parties or alliances need support to form the government at the Centre.

Mar 25, 2019

Private Hospitals Out of ESI Scheme

The Punjab Government has cancelled the empanelment of all 90 private hospitals with the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESI) hospitals following complaints of alleged wrongdoing.
The decision was taken on the basis of field reports, which mentioned that ESI doctors and other employees were allegedly recklessly referring cases to private hospitals notwithstanding the fact that these institutes have specialised services as well as the infrastructure required for treatment.
Under the empanelment scheme, employees were allowed to avail treatment from private hospitals on the state government insurance cards.

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