HONOURING CALL OF DUTY: The officer has swapped her khaki uniform for maternity wear
RAIPUR: Five months pregnant, a DSP is out on the streets, lathi in hand, ensuring lockdown in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada town. “Given the circumstances, I couldn’t stay at home,” said 29-year-old Shilpa Sahu.
Sahu has swapped her khaki uniform for maternity wear but there is no mistaking the steel in her voice when she orders, “Wapas jao. Ghar jao.” “If I am out, they should know they must stay at home,” she says.
The officer is more at home in anti-insurgency ops, armed with an AK-47, leading Danteshwari Fighters a band of women commandos against Maoists in insurgency-hit Dantewada. She had to take a break from field ops due to her pregnancy, but she ‘hasn’t taken a break from duty’.
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Prime Minister Florin Citu announced on Tuesday that employees of privately run companies can be vaccinated at work, with the approval of the Public Health Directorate (DSP), adding that their family members will also have the same access. We had two very important meetings on the vaccination campaign. Today we changed a few things, especially the way in which employees of private companies can be vaccinated at work, with the help of business operators and after being approved by the DSP. I spoke to DSP a few days ago, last week, and told them to support that with all their might. I also met representatives of business organisations, chambers of commerce, the SME Council, Hora, CDR, drug producers, and, very importantly, NGOs and patient associations. We need this vaccination campaign to be expanded, Citu said.
DRDO develops supplemental oxygen delivery system for soldiers, COVID-19 patients
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Last Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 08:13 PM IST
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Synopsis This automatic system delivers supplemental oxygen based on the SpO2 (blood oxygen saturation) levels and prevents the person from sinking in to a state of hypoxia, which is fatal in most cases, if sets in, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in a statement.
The government-run DRDO on Monday said it has developed a SpO2-based supplemental oxygen delivery system for soldiers serving in extremely high altitude areas and COVID-19 patients. This automatic system delivers supplemental oxygen based on the SpO2 (blood oxygen saturation) levels and prevents the person from sinking in to a state of hypoxia, which is fatal in most cases, if sets in, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in a statement.
Islamists clash with cops, many feared dead
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Islamists clash with cops, many feared dead
Omer Farooq Khan / TNN / Apr 19, 2021, 01:02 IST
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ISLAMABAD: A number of workers of the proscribed far-right Islamist party, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), were feared dead and several others injured in Lahore in clashes with police after the protesters tortured a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and took him, as well as four other officials, hostage on Sunday.
Police said the violence occurred after the protesters attacked a police station and abducted the DSP. “Today in the early morning, ‘miscreants’ [TLP workers] attacked Nawankot police station where rangers and police officers were trapped inside the police station and DSP Nawankot kidnapped and taken in the markaz [referring to TLP headquarters],” the Punjab Police posted on Twitter.
COVID-19: Army reduces physical attendance in offices by 50 percent due to rising cases
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Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 07:55 PM IST
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India added a record 2,17,353 new coronavirus infections in a day taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,42,91,917, while active cases surpassed the 15-lakh mark, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday.
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The Indian Army has informed its personnel that physical attendance in offices has been reduced by 50 per cent due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the country, officials said on Friday. The personnel who would be physically present in offices will have to avoid crowding, stagger their timings and follow all COVID-19 protocols strictly, they stated.