The Centre on Saturday reconstituted six empowered groups into ten to tackle the current Covid-19 crisis in the country.The Ministry of Home Affairs said in an order that Niti Aayog (health) member V.K. Paul will lead two committees - emergency .
By Madalyn O Neill
May 26, 2021 | 9:50 PM
That stands out to Ajay Sethi, associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin â Madison, as he looks at county level data.
âThere are some counties where only a quarter of residents have had one shot or both shots,â Sethi said. âOthers are on the high end, over 60%.â
That includes Dane County, where 65.6% of people have gotten at least one shot, according to state data. That number ranges throughout the state, sitting at 45.7% in Rock County and going as low as 26.2% in Taylor County.
If that disparity continues, Sethi said we could start to see impacts.
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40+ saplings nipped in the bud in Alahalli
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: May 24, 2021, 06:00 IST
Saplings planted as part of BMRCL scheme last year mowed to build a wall
The residents of Alahalli and adjoining areas of
Anjanapura ward woke up to a rude shock on Saturday morning. An earth mover was busy at work, removing 40 to 50 saplings planted along the
Alahalli Lake.
The
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) had selected the Alahalli Lake bund and an adjoining vacant land, a part of the burial ground, for planting around 5,000 saplings in October 2020. The saplings were planted to compensate for the trees cut down for carrying out Namma Metro works. Under BMRCL’s initiative, the residents said, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (
Finance > Banks & institutions > Companies (banking) > RBI
21 May 2021
The Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India at its annual meeting today approved the transfer of Rs99,122 crore as surplus to the central government for the accounting period of nine months ended 31 March 2021 (July 2020-March 2021).
The transfer will help the government s finances as the country battles a furious second coronavirus wave that has seen daily infections and deaths rise to a record level. The restrictions clamped to break the chain of infections have also put a question mark on the country s economic recovery.
RBI has decided to maintain its Contingency Risk Buffer at 5.50 per cent. The central bank is required to maintain a contingency risk buffer of 5.5-6.5 per cent of its balance sheet.