Hyderabad: The Telangana government issued directives on Thursday to regularise 1331 contract staff in the health department.
State health minister T Harish Rao handed over the orders regularising 1331 contract employees to various employee unions that had represented the employees.
There are 68 women Multipurpose Health Assistants (MPHA) from the Commissioner of Family Welfare, 72 from the Director of Medical Education (DME), 16 chemists, 177 lab technicians, 2 paramedical ophthalmic officers, 837 male MPHA from the Director of Public Health (DPH), and 19 Medical Officers from AYUSH.
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Sunday issued orders for the regularisation of over 5,000 contract employees in various departments.
The orders were issued after Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao approved the file concerned after taking his chair in his chambers in the new state Secretariat.
A Government Order (GO) regularising the services of 5,544 contract employees in 16 departments was issued by Special Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao.
Finance Minister Harish Rao tweeted the GO and thanked the Chief Minister for fulfilling his promise.
The contract employees whose services will be regularised include 2,909 junior lecturers, 180 junior lecturers (vocational), 390 polytechnic lecturers, 270 degree lecturers, 873 multipurpose health assistants in the Health Department, 179 lab technicians and 158 pharmacists.
The file for regularisation of contract employees was one of the six files signed by the chief minister after occupying his chair in the new Secretariat.
The first file he signed was on the implementation of the Dalit Bandhu Scheme in 2023-24. He signed the file pertaining to extending Dalit Bandu benefit to 1,100 beneficiaries each in 118 Assembly constituencies (except Huzurabad where the scheme has already been implemented).
KCR also signed a file relating to the distribution of Podu land titles. From May, the district wise distribution programme will be undertaken. As many as 1,35,000 beneficiaries will be provided the land titles for about 3.9 lakh acres.
The Chief Minister signed the third file regarding the beneficiaries of Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF).
The fourth file he signed was related to the KCR Nutrition Kit for pregnant women. These kits will be distributed in all the districts. As the government targeted to distribute 13.08 lakh kits across the state, 6.84 lakh pregnant women will benefit. The cost of each KCR nutrition kit is Rs 2,000 and for this project, the government allocated Rs 277 crore.
KCR also signed the file relating to the Palamuru Lift Irrigation scheme.
Following the trend of men’s IPL team, RCB Women team in WPL also lost their fifth match in a row and remained winless after losing to Delhi Capitals in Monday’s clash at the DY Patil Stadium. RCB now has a still a very slim chance, however that chance isn’t easy to calculate and for the same reason the RCB has signed a five year contract with a calculator manufacturer as its calculator partner.
Speaking to The Fauxy, RCB owner said “One of the biggest cost that we incur in IPL is the cost of calculator that our players and their fans buy to find out the chance of RCB qualifying, the trend has remained same in all the IPLs and even in women IPL and to reduce the cost we have signed a contract with a calculator manufacturer“.
RCB will soon have the Calculator brand name and its logo on the players’ jersey. Reportedly, the IPL has signed the deal at whooping Rs 124 Crores for five years.
As per the contract, the calculator manufacturer will keep calculating the RCB chance every hour and after four matches every half an hour. Result of RCB’s chance can be find out on its social media accounts and the website.
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“This is an attempt to call the question ‘Which side are you on? Whose side are you on?” Newsom said in an interview with POLITICO ahead of the announcement. “Are you going to just cower in the face of bullies? Are you going to just roll over?”
Walgreens will no longer provide medications to inmates in California’s sprawling correctional system as a result of the decision.
Newsom says this is just the first step in an “exhaustive review” of all of the state’s ties with Walgreens, some of which he may need to work with the state Legislature to terminate.
Walgreens has faced criticism after appearing to both commit to distributing the abortion drug Mifepristone in states where it is allowed while saying it would provide it in Republican-controlled states.
Newsom said he was nixing the contract in part because the company could not provide clear answers.
“They were unwilling or incapable of doing anything more than repeating a statement that only reinforces the ambiguity,” Newsom said. “That made me conclude they’re not serious about this, and we are.”
Newsom’s move also demonstrates his willingness to wield California’s financial might in an intensifying national battle over abortion access. The governor and legislative Democrats have already allocated hundreds of millions of dollars and enacted new laws to make California a sanctuary for abortion-seekers from other states.
“Ironically, we’re the size of 21 states’ populations combined,” Newsom said, referencing the 21 states where Walgreens has told GOP state officials that they do not plan to dispense the pills. “And likely, when the dust settles, we’ll be the fourth largest economy in the world. So, we have, we believe, moral authority, but we also have formal authority and will exercise it in partnership with the Legislature, and in the absence of that, through executive action.”
States have been on the frontlines of abortion policy struggles after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to the procedure. While California responded by aggressively expanding abortion access, Republican states have sharply restricted it.
Florida lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would ban abortions after six weeks. As national Democrats rebuked the proposal, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Floridians repulsed by the “despicable” bill they would be “welcome in California.”
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Srinagar, Mar 8 (GNS): After widespread resentment by job aspirants and condemnations from politicians cutting across party lines, Jammu Kashmir National Conference senior leader and vice-president Omar Abdullah has sought an immediate cancellation of purported contract to the Company for conducting exams.
Taking to microblogging site Twitter, Omar Abdullah wrote; “This contract must immediately be cancelled. What is the point of black listing company if they are going to be awarded plum contracts.”
“This contract is even more dangerous because it puts at risk the future of scores of aspirants who rely on JKSSRB to conduct recruitment exams”, reads the tweet.
In a subsequent tweet, Omar wrote; “I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the use of force & lathi charge against students & JKSSRB aspirants. These youngsters were exercising their democratic right to protest against the recent decision to engage a blacklisted firm #Aptech by JKSSRB.”
Notably, scores of JKSSRB aspirants assembled at Press Enclave here to register their protest against the purported grant of contract to APTECH Ltd. to conduct various exams in Jammu and Kashmir.
Many political leaders including Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Gani Lone have also condemned the purported contract by administration to the ‘blacklisted’ company. (GNS)
The contract, valid for the time being, now costs just over 12 cents per kilowatt hour at its lowest.
Long the continued decrease in the price of fixed-term electricity contracts seems to have stopped. According to the Energy Agency’s price comparison of contracts, the cheapest fixed-price fixed-term contract sells electricity for 11.19 cents per kilowatt hour.
The cheapest contract offer was also the same a week ago. The contract is sold by Vihreë älläenergia. It is biennial.
Fixed-term electricity contracts have become cheaper for practically two months straight. For example, as recently as December 12, the cheapest contract traded electricity for 29 cents. Since then, the price per kilowatt hour has dropped by almost 18 cents.
Based on the electricity derivatives market, it seems that electricity contracts will not necessarily get cheaper in the near future.
Finland’s electricity futures are rather on a fine rise. Now electricity costs 10.4 cents per kilowatt-hour in the April-June futures trade in the Finnish region. The price includes 24 percent value added tax. A week ago, the price was 10.1 cents.
The electricity future for July–September now costs 9.4 cents, while a week ago the price was 8.9 cents.
For now The cheapest offer of the current contracts is currently 12.23 cents per kilowatt hour. The price in question is valid until the end of March.
The contract is sold by Vihreë älläenergia. After this, the price of the contract is determined based on the Finnish price of the electricity exchange. A margin of 3.56 cents is added to the monthly average price. The consumer can terminate the contract with a notice period of two weeks.
On the website of the Energy Agency, you can also find another offer valid until further notice, where the energy fee is less than 13 cents per kilowatt hour. The seller of the contract is Pohjois Karjalan Sähkö.
In the contract, the seller can change the price after one month after notifying the customer. The consumer can terminate the contract with a notice period of two weeks.
Exchange electricity the price has remained quite flat in recent weeks. During the last week, electricity has cost an average of 14.4 cents a day at its highest and just under 5 cents at its lowest.
In February, stock exchange electricity cost an average of 8.8 cents per kilowatt hour. Exchange electricity has been cheaper at the beginning of the year than last year’s January-February average.
A leading German ballet choreographer who smeared dog faeces into the face of a dance critic in revenge for her negative reviews of his work has been sacked from his post, the Hanover State Opera said on Thursday.
It said Marco Goecke’s actions last weekend in confronting Wiebke Hüster, a journalist with the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, had been hugely damaging to its reputation.
It had suspended Goecke, 50, on Monday, and police are investigating after Hüster reported the incident to them.
“Marco Goecke’s irresponsible actions have deeply unsettled the audience, irritated the public, violated all the principles of the house and massively damaged the reputation of the Hanover state opera,” the theatre’s statement read.
Hüster has said she cried out and burst into tears upon realising what Goecke had done, and she believes it was a meditated attack. She said she was shocked a second time when Goecke initially refused to apologise.
Instead, in a television interview, he expressed his regret for the attack, describing “the manner of it” as “certainly not super” and admitting it would not be viewed as socially acceptable. But he called it a “heat of the moment” response on seeing Hüster, whom he accused of having “throwing mud” at him over more than 20 years of negative reviews of his work.
Under pressure, he later issued what was widely interpreted as a half-hearted written apology. He wrote: “I want to sincerely apologise to all involved, first and foremost Frau Hüster, for my absolutely not to be applauded action.” He said the attack had been the result of “nervous overload due to two premieres that followed each other closely”.
But in the same statement he made further accusations towards the journalist and spoke of the “often hateful critiques” he was subjected to.
Hüster has denied his accusation that she had been set on rubbishing all his performances, saying she had “cherished” a lot of his work. But she vowed to never attend another Goecke production.
The Hanover opera’s head, Laura Berman, said its contract with Goecke, a celebrated, prize-winning choreographer, would be dissolved with immediate effect by mutual agreement, but he would be permitted access to the premises for the time being and his productions would continue to be staged by the theatre.
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Goecke, in his explanation, poured scorn on the critics of German newspapers, in particular of the feuilleton or feature sections of the highbrow broadsheets, urging them to refrain from negative publicity of the cultural world, which he said was not helpful to theatres struggling to get back on their feet after the pandemic.
In the most recent criticism of his work to which Goecke had taken exception, on a collaboration with the the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague, Hüster had said it was like a badly tuned radio. She wrote: “One alternates between a state of feeling insane and being killed by boredom,” and she compared the experience of watching the performance to viewing a warm winter beach from a glass window, “as if in a permanent state of retirement”.
She said his apology had been anything but. “He immediately switched into strengthening the accusations that he had previously held against me. What sort of an apology is that? That is a justification. In addition: we’re talking here about a criminal act. Of insult and bodily harm.”
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Hyderabad: In a gruesome incident at Mannamidde village of Nalgonda district, 150 dogs were mercilessly killed on February 4. The dogs were reportedly killed by a man from Andhra Pradesh.
Speaking to Siasat.com, Dr. Shashikala Kopanati, an animal activist from Hyderabad said, “We got information about 150 dogs getting killed on Sunday by a man who was hired from Andhra Pradesh. The contract killer brought injections and poisons to commit this horrific act in a whole day. The killer did not even spare the small puppies, who are suckling infants that could barely move. He killed them too because he was paid Rs 150 per dog.”
Kopanati said she filed the complaint as nobody in the village was cooperating to lodge their statement on this incident. “We have been sent back as the sub-inspector was on the bandobast for a Jatra nearby and there were no police. However, he said tomorrow morning will send a team of veterinary doctors who will conduct the post-mortem and after that they will file an FIR. To date, they haven’t conducted the postmortem because he claims that the sarpanch and the village secretary had nothing to do with this. Based on the claims made by the sarpanch and village secretary the SI is refusing to file a complaint,” she added.
The activist alleged that the Sarpanch and village secretary hired the contract killers from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
“After the news was published in the media, the SI was willing to talk,” she added.
This is the 5th visit I made to Nalgonda as an animal welfare activist over the past few months in relation to community dog culls.
Contract dog killers are being hired by both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at ₹150 per dog. They commonly use injectable poisons such as propofol, which is a human anesthetic agent. I visited last night and lodged a complaint. The SI promised to make inquiries in the morning,”
San Francisco: Dozens of third-party employees at YouTube Music, hired by Alphabet sub-contractor tech company Cognizant, have gone on strike over alleged unfair labour practices.
According to a report in The Verge, 40 striking workers alleged that both companies’ management have “leveraged unfair labour practices to get in the way of their union drive”.
They alleged that the vast majority of them are ready to vote yes in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.
“In an act of retaliation, our employer is forcing an end to remote work before the vote, which would dramatically interfere with the fair voting conditions mandated by federal law,” said YouTube Music generalist Sam Regan at a strike in Austin, Texas.
YouTube Music’s content operations team is expected to return to the Austin office early next week.
However, Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) said the majority of workers were hired remotely.
“Workers are paid as little as $19 dollars an hour and thus, cannot afford the relocation, travel or childcare costs associated with in person work,” the AWU said in a statement.
The AWU had filed an unfair labour practice charge with the NLRB.
Alphabet recently laid off 12,000 employees, or 6 per cent of its global workforce.
Google employees also staged protests in the US this week to call attention to labour conditions for sub-contracted workers and to support thousands of their recently laid-off co-workers.
Nearly 50 Google employees also protested outside a Ninth Avenue store in New York shortly after parent company Alphabet announced fourth-quarter profits of $13.6 billion.
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday said it has renewed the contract of Cyclops Security a firm whose staff has been accused of mishandling student protesters and committing theft on the campus.
The JNU Teachers’ Association and several student bodies have raised the demand of replacing the firm.
“This is for information of all that w.e.f. 01.02.2023 at 0700 hours new Security Service Contract with Cyclops Security will start,” the JNU administration said in a statement.
“All new Civilian Security Guards will take over the duties from Ex-Serviceman officers Security Guards. All JNU Residents are, therefore, requested to cooperate with the new security guards,” the notification added.
The administration said that security is the collective responsibility of all residents and their active cooperation with the security staff is required for a safe and secure campus.
Several incidents of theft on the campus have been reported in recent years. JNUTA too highlighted the issue of increasing incidents of theft last year in a statement.
“The Cyclops Security and Allied Services Pvt Ltd have to be held responsible for what can be described at best as their complete dereliction of duty to carry out the services they were hired for,” JNUTA had said in a statement last year in March.
Cyclops Security has been in charge of JNU’s security since the time of the previous Vice-Chancellor, M Jagadesh Kumar. However, despite multiple thefts, the security firm has not been dismissed.
Following the 2020 clashes on the campus, the security agency was accused of colluding with ABVP by allowing them to enter the premises of the University and attack staff and students.
On 5 January 2020, masked people armed with rods and sticks attacked several students and teachers and injured scores of them.
After the incident, Jagadesh Kumar had said that the administration was in the process of appointing a new security agency.
