| Case Type | Number | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diary No. | 737/2021 Filed on 11-01-2021 12:17 PM PENDING [SECTION: XVII] |
| Case No. | MA 000116 - / 2021 Registered on 18-01-2021 |
| Petitioner(s) | 1 UNION OF INDIA |
| Respondent(s) | 1 ASSOCIATION OF UNIFIED TELECOM SERVICE PROVIDERS OF INDIA |
| Pet. Advocate(s) | RANJEETA ROHATGI |
The registration for the next phase of vaccination via CoWIN 2.0 portal will start at 9 am on March 1, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on February 28.
Citizens aged above 60 and 45-plus with comorbidities are eligible to receive the jabs under this round of immunisation drive.
"Registration will open at 9:00 am on 1st March 2021 (at www.cowin.gov.in). Citizens will be able to register and book and appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the CoWIN 2.0 portal or through other IT applications such as Arogya Setu etc," the health ministry said in an official release.
The Centre has allowed the states to rope-in private medical facilities to speed up the vaccination drive.
The COWIN 2.0 platform has been updated to allow the states to provide the option of vaccination through private hospitals to the beneficiaries.
"All citizens that are aged, or will attain the age of, 60 years or more as on 1st January 2022 are eligible to register, in addition to all such citizens that are aged, or will attain the age of, 45 years to 59 years as on 1st January 2022, and have any of the specified 20 comorbidities," the ministry added.
There will be only one live appointment for a beneficiary at any point of time for each dose. "Appointments for any date for a CVC will be closed at 3:00 pm on that day for which the slots were opened," the statement read.
For example, for 1st March, the slots will be open from 9:00 am till 3:00 pm, and the appointments can be booked anytime before that, subject to availability.
However, on 1st March, an appointment can also be booked for any future date for which vaccination slots are available. A slot for second dose will also be booked at the same CVC on 29th day of the date of appointment of the first dose.
"If a beneficiary cancels a first dose appointment, then appointment of both doses will be cancelled," the statement noted.
The eligible persons will be able to register at the Co-WIN2.0 portal through their mobile number, through a step by step process.
"With one mobile number, a person can register as many as four beneficiaries. However, all those registered on one mobile number will have nothing in common except the mobile number," it added.
The Photo ID Card Number for each such beneficiary must be different. Either of the following Photo Identity Documents can be used by citizens for availing of online registration–Aadhar card/letter, Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC), passport, driving license, PAN card, NPR smart card or pension Document with photograph.
The vaccines that will be used for administration in this phase of immunisation programme would be supplied to the states by the central government - which will procure the same from the manufacturers.
"All vaccines provided to beneficiaries at the Government Health Facilities will be entirely free of cost, while private facilities cannot charge the beneficiary a sum above Rs 250 per person per dose," the ministry reiterated.
Private hospitals are to remit the cost of vaccine doses allotted to them in a designated account of the National Health Authority (NHA). Payment gateway for the same is being enabled by the NHA on their website.
The Government of India has supplied two COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, free of cost to the states and UTs to vaccinate healthcare workers and frontline workers. The Centre will also be able to cover the next priority group, the ministry statement added.
The states have been requested to operationalize the linkages between the CVCs - both government and private empanelled facilities - with the nearest cold chain points for ensuring smooth vaccine delivery, it further added.
Around 10,000 private hospitals under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, and more than 600 hospitals empanelled under central government health scheme (CGHS) and other private hospitals empanelled under government schemes can be picked by the states as COVID-19 Vaccination Centres (CVCs).
Dronacharya can be easily termed as first TEST TUBE BABY in the world. Before every other Quoran starts laughing and starts doubting my mental status and my education, let us remind ourselves the story of dronacharya’s birth.
Rishi, Sage, Bharadwaj was a prominent sage of those days. He once was readying to take bath at his usual area in river Ganga before his evening pooja rituals.
Suddenly he saw an extremely, heavenly beautiful lady taking bath in river Ganga. He was amazed and shell shocked to see this level of sensuous beauty. He continued to watch this Apsara playing with water waves and enjoying the Ganga waters in an almost negligible single cloth that was adding to the sensuality of this Apsara. Story tells us the name of this Apsara as Krita.
Story further unfolds. As Apsara Krita’s joyous play with water waves got intense so was the rise in the blood rush in the Sage Bharadwaj’s eyes, mind and body.
And finally the Rishi was overpowered and his semen got emitted as can happen, often happens with humans like us!
At that point of time, Hosh returned in place of Josh. Rishi Bharadwaj returned back to his normal self. He collected his semen containing his millions or billions of sperms in a clay pot. Rishi Bharadwaj later stored this clay pot in a safe place in his Ashram.
Story tells us that Dronacharya was born in this pot that functioned as world's first test tube!
So Father of Guru of Paandavs and Kauravs, Master Archer and Imaginary Guru of Eklavya, DRONACHARYA is Rishi Bharadwaj.
Around 11 lakh people will lose their jobs if the Future Retail-Reliance deal falls through, FMCG distributors, traders association and a Delhi-based NGO have said in a statement.
"Future Group and Reliance had ensured that all businesses, including Big Bazaar, EasyDay, Nilgiris, Central, Brand Factory, among others, continue to function so that employees and suppliers do not lose their livelihood, read a statement issued by All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation, FMCG Distributors and Traders Association Delhi and Public Response Against Helplessness and Action for Redressal (PRAHAR).
"However, frequent litigations and roadblocks by Amazon are putting this arrangement into a crisis. The fear is that if the deal does not go through then the livelihood of many will be lost," it added.
Future Group, which has around 2,000 stores in over 450 cities across India, will shut shop if the deal is blocked, causing almost 11 lakh job losses, the release said, adding that about 6,000 vendors and suppliers will also lose their biggest customer.
Stressing on the importance of the competition of the deal, the statement said that Reliance had committed to pay the dues of all vendors and suppliers as part of the deal.
"Hence, it is important that these businesses and jobs of people supplying to Future Retail are protected," it added.
Amazon and Future Group are locked in a legal dispute over the sale of the Indian company’s retail, logistics and warehousing assets to Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), a unit of Reliance Industries, for Rs 24,713 crore.
Amazon, which owns a 49 percent stake in Future Coupons, an unlisted company, has challenged the Future Group-Reliance Retail deal, claiming it did not consent to such a transaction. It said the deal breached some existing agreements.
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Before jumping in to understand how to analyze bank stocks, one needs to understand the business model of banks and how they make money. Banks basically make money through a combination of spread income and fee income. One should always look at the core business of the bank, both retail and corporate banking. The proportions of these two in the bank’s total revenue should always be very healthy. A bank’s presence across the market should be also evenly balanced.
As banks have unique attributes, certain financial ratios provide useful insights, more so than the others. One needs to look at different parameters such as net interest income (NII), net interest margin (NIM), provisioning coverage ratio (PCR), capital adequacy ratio (CAR), Current Account-Savings Account (CASA) ratio, non-performing assets (NPA), gross non-performing asset (GNPA) and slippages.
A bank has to pay interest on the borrowed money, and earns interest on the money it has lent. So, investors should analyse the difference between the interest earned by the bank and interest paid, which gives the net interest income (NII). Investors should also minutely look at total deposits, total advances and net interest margin. A bank that maintains a low ADR (Advance-Deposit Ratio) is considered safe. Eventually, investors should analyze the capital adequacy ratio (CAR). Higher the capital adequacy ratio (CAR), the more the chances of the bank being on the safer side, meaning thereby, that the bank is strengthening its capital reserves and financial growth.
Another important parameter is gross NPA and net NPA. Basically, non-performing assets (NPAs) are recorded on a bank's balance sheet after a prolonged period of non-payment by the borrower. One should always look out for these numbers and how they change with time. In case of higher NPA, the borrowings get riskier and the bank would need to focus on recovery of the borrowing amounts. Normally, if a bank is into retail borrowing business, then probably the NPA may be lower, whereas, in corporate banking, the NPA levels are generally higher, because if any company defaults, the NPA number shoots up.
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