The bench asked the Centre and airlines to sit together and devise modalities on the ways to refund the passengers for cancellation of their tickets during the lockdown.
Airlines must extend credit period for two years: SC on cancelled tickets
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Plan ready to douse Assam well fire, inquiry panel formed: Oil India
Engineers accompanied by experts from Singapore firm and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) further intensified their efforts to tame the blaze
Current Affairs : A ‘guide’ has been chalked out to soak Assam’s oil well fire, which keeps on bursting for the fourth day on Friday and has till now guaranteed two lives, the state-possessed Oil India Ltd (OIL) reported.
An OIL discharge said that a “guide” for the well control activity by specialists’ group from Singapore based M/s Alert, alongside ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation), Crisis Management Team and V.P. Mahawar, Ex-Director (Onshore) of ONGC has been set up to put out the inferno and fitting the 17-day long spillage of gas and oil condensate in an’s oil well in Tinsukia locale.
It likewise included that a high release water siphon was set at the site while appropriate spot for stacking of materials and gear was being activated from ONGC to be utilized for the control activity has been distinguished.
Architects joined by specialists from Singapore firm and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) further escalated their endeavors to tame the burst.
At any rate two firemen of OIL were killed and four others including one from ONGC were harmed close to the oil well victory site on Wednesday. The inferno was serious to such an extent that it could be seen from to the extent 10 km away. Individuals via web-based networking media said they could see it from their window and it gave them “Chernobyl-like” vibe.
Current Affairs : A ‘guide’ has been chalked out to soak Assam’s oil well fire, which keeps on bursting for the fourth day on Friday and has till now guaranteed two lives, the state-possessed Oil India Ltd (OIL) reported.
An OIL discharge said that a “guide” for the well control activity by specialists’ group from Singapore based M/s Alert, alongside ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation), Crisis Management Team and V.P. Mahawar, Ex-Director (Onshore) of ONGC has been set up to put out the inferno and fitting the 17-day long spillage of gas and oil condensate in an’s oil well in Tinsukia locale.
It likewise included that a high release water siphon was set at the site while appropriate spot for stacking of materials and gear was being activated from ONGC to be utilized for the control activity has been distinguished.
Architects joined by specialists from Singapore firm and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) further escalated their endeavors to tame the burst.
At any rate two firemen of OIL were killed and four others including one from ONGC were harmed close to the oil well victory site on Wednesday. The inferno was serious to such an extent that it could be seen from to the extent 10 km away. Individuals via web-based networking media said they could see it from their window and it gave them “Chernobyl-like” vibe.
Trump considering suspending H1B visa over rising US unemployment: Report
H-1B is the most coveted foreign work visas for technology professionals from India
Current Affairs : US President Donald Trump is thinking about suspending various work visas including the H-1B, generally looked for after among Indian IT experts, taking into account the monstrous joblessness in America due to the coronavirus pandemic, as per a media report.
The proposed suspension could reach out into the administration’s new monetary year starting October 1, when numerous new visas are given, The Wall Street Journal gave an account of Thursday, citing anonymous organization authorities.
That could bar any new H-1B holder outside the nation from coming to work until the suspension is lifted, however visa holders as of now in the nation are probably not going to be influenced, the day by day detailed.
H-1B is the most pined for remote work visas for innovation experts from India.
Such a choice by the Trump organization is probably going to adversy affect a large number of Indian IT experts. Effectively countless Indians on the H-1B visas have lost their positions and are going back home during the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House, be that as it may, said that no official choice has been made and the organization is thinking about different recommendations.
The organization is as of now assessing a wide scope of alternatives, detailed via profession specialists, to ensure American laborers and occupation searchers particularly distraught and underserved residents yet no choices of any sort have been made, White House representative Hogan Gidley said in an announcement.
Notwithstanding the H-1B visas, the suspension could apply to the H-2B visa for momentary part timers, the J-1 visa for transient specialists including camp guides and au sets and the L-1 visa for inside organization moves, the money related day by day revealed.
In the mean time, the US Chambers of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue on Thursday composed a letter to Trump, communicating worry over his detailed proceed onward brief work visas.
As the economy bounce back, American organizations will require confirmations that they can meet all their workforce needs. With that in mind, it is significant that they approach ability both locally and from around the globe, Donohue wrote in a letter to Trump.
Global food emergency imminent; 49 mn may fall into extreme poverty: UN
‘Hundreds of millions of children and adults’ face long-term impact of food emergency, says Secretary General Guterres.
Current Affairs : Joined Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has cautioned the quantity of individuals intensely food or nourishment shaky will quickly grow.
“There is all that could possibly be needed food on the planet to take care of our populace of 7.8 billion individuals. Be that as it may, today, in excess of 820 million individuals are eager. What’s more, about 144 million kids younger than five are hindered – more than one of every five youngsters around the world. Our food frameworks are fizzling, and the Covid-19 pandemic is compounding the situation,” the UN boss said in his video message for the dispatch of UN strategy brief on the effect of Covid-19 on food security and nourishment on Tuesday, Xinhua news office detailed.
The secretary-general cautioned that except if prompt move is made, it is progressively evident that “there is a looming worldwide food crisis that could have long haul impacts on a huge number of kids and grown-ups.”
“This year, somewhere in the range of 49 million additional individuals may fall into outrageous destitution because of the Covid-19 emergency,” he said.
Each rate point drop in worldwide GDP implies an extra 0.7 million hindered kids, he said. “Indeed, even in nations with copious food, we see dangers of disturbances in the food gracefully chain.”
“We have to act presently to keep away from the most noticeably terrible effects of our endeavors to control the pandemic,” the UN boss noted.
To handle the critical circumstance, Guterres encouraged the universal network to “prepare to spare lives and jobs, centering consideration where the hazard is generally intense.”
“That implies assigning food and sustenance benefits as fundamental, while executing suitable assurances for food laborers,” he said.
“It implies saving basic compassionate food, job and nourishment help to powerless gatherings,” said the secretary-general. “What’s more, it implies situating food in food-emergency nations to strengthen and scale up social insurance frameworks.”
From router to storage device: 5 things to make work-from-home functional
While a make-do workstation at home can get you moving, there are gadgets that help elevate user experience and improve productivity and work efficiency
Current Affairs : When a piece of alternate courses of action, telecommute is presently the new working standard for organizations to work in the midst of the on-going coronavirus pandemic. While a make-do workstation at home can make you move, there are things like double band remote switch, distributed storage, thumb drives, remote console and mouse, and so on that help hoist client encounter and improve profitability and work productivity.
Business Standard records five things to make telecommute practical
Switches and web dongles
You can’t build up a work-from-home set-up without web network. There are various approaches to interface with the web, yet the most proficient in current situation is remote. On the off chance that you have quite recently the scratch pad or work area, a straightforward 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi switch would work fine and dandy. Nonetheless, on the off chance that there are numerous gadgets like printer, scanner, outer presentation, and so forth., at that point you need a double band remote switch to interface and deal with all your associated gadgets.
Additionally, a versatile hotspot gadget with a functioning web plan ought to consistently be prepared as a back-up, on the off chance that you lose web access through your essential channels.
Printer and scanner
These gadgets may be helper, yet are fundamental under the present conditions, when one should confine physical contact with whatever may have experienced various hands. For instance, a letter that needs your mark doesn’t need to stand by to be conveyed to you. Rather, you can demand the record to be sent on mail, take a printout, sign it, check it and send it back.
While the entire procedure permits you to complete the errand even as you keep up social removing standards, it likewise spares time and demonstrates effective in general.
For convenience, it is smarter to utilize a WiFi-prepared across the board gadget with printing and checking usefulness worked in. The across the board gadget spares space and the Wi-Fi network makes it advantageous to oversee and work it.
Remote console and mouse
A slick and clean workspace at home can raise working condition by affecting your mental wellbeing. Hence, it is critical to discover remote options in contrast to everything with link associations, including mouse and console. Other than being adaptable in their use, the remote console and mouse decreases the messiness on your work area, along these lines, make it look composed.
Capacity
Information security and capacity is vital, particularly in telecommute situation where you neither approach encoded information stockpiling server nor the accomplished data innovation staff to assist you with recouping lost information in time – on the off chance that you unconsciously get yourself in such a circumstance. Thusly, it is critical to keep documents on distributed storage and take reinforcement on a capacity gadget like thumb drive or hard plate drive (HDD).
Headphones with worked in mouthpiece
Headphones with worked in mouthpiece have returned pattern as video gatherings assume control over the customary meeting room gatherings. A decent arrangement of headphones assist you with concentrating on guest’s pitch by segregating the surrounding interruptions. The amplifier, then again, encourages other to hear you with lucidity, along these lines, limiting the odds of disarray.
You can now use IFCN’s Covid-19 fact-checking chatbot on WhatsApp in Hindi
The service, previously available in English and Spanish, was developed to combat misinformation about coronavirus pandemic
Current Affairs : Universal Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) on Thursday propelled the Hindi adaptation of its worldwide actuality checking Covid-19 chatbot for WhatsApp in India. The Hindi chatbot sources its substance from Vishvas News, Fact Crescendo, India Today, Newschecker, Boom Fact Check, News Mobile and The Quint. The database accessible in Hindi has begun with in excess of 250 truth checks and will be refreshed day by day.
The IFCN’s chatbot is an allowed to utilize administration on WhatsApp. To empower the chatbot, client need to spare +1 (727) 2912606 as a contact number. To start the reality check process, client need to open the visit and communicate something specific “नमस्ते” to kick the Hindi bot off. On the other hand, clients can click here to begin the discussion.
“The new IFCN chatbot in Hindi will permit clients to scan for reality checks and get associated with certainty checkers from their cell phones. The chatbot will likewise fill in as an approach to guide individuals to their neighborhood truth checkers’ sites,” said Baybars Orsek, IFCN’s Director said in an announcement.
The administration, already accessible in English and Spanish, was created to battle deception as to coronavirus pandemic. It permits individuals to effortlessly check whether data about the coronavirus was delegated bogus by any of the autonomous truth checkers in the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance, composed by the IFCN.
“We are exceptionally satisfied to now have the option to help IFCN’s fundamental reality checking work with the dispatch of this significant assistance for WhatsApp clients. There are currently more than 40 IFCN-confirmed truth checkers the world over that are utilizing the WhatsApp Business application to expose coronavirus deceptions for residents in their particular nations,” said Ben Supple, Public Policy Manager and Global Election Lead at WhatsApp.
Semi-high speed rail corridor Silver Line gets Kerala cabinet nod
The DPR will now go for the approval of Railway Board, NITI Aayog and the Union Cabinet
Current Affairs : The Kerala bureau has given its endorsement for the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Thiruvananthapuram-Kasaragod Semi-High Speed Rail hallway, Silver Line, which intends to cover about 529.45 km in four hours.
While giving its green sign to the undertaking on Wednesday, the Cabinet rolled out minor improvements to the arrangement proposed in the DPR put together by the actualizing office Kerala Rail Development Corporation Ltd (K-rail), a joint endeavor of the Indian Railways and the Kerala Government.
The plausibility report of the venture had proposed the line to go through Mahe.
Be that as it may, according to the progressions made by the Cabinet, the line will skip Mahe, an enclave of the Union Territory of Puducherry.
While the Kasargod-Tirur stretch of Silver Line will run corresponding to the current railroad, the Tirur-Thiruvananthapuram area will go amiss from the present one,a public statement said.
Silver Line will have stations at Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Chengannur, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Cochin Airport, Thrissur, Tirur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod.
The expense of the undertaking is assessed to be Rs 63,941 crore.
It is relied upon to be finished in five years.
The DPR will currently go for the endorsement of Railway Board, NITI Aayog and the Union Cabinet.
Delhi LG directs Chief Secretary to ensure all hospitals display availability of beds at entry point
The availability of beds, both COVID and non-COVID, and the charges for the same, including those for rooms or beds and details of the contact person for admission, should also be out on display
Current Affairs : Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal coordinated Chief Secretary, Delhi government to guarantee all medical clinics, facilities, nursing homes show accessibility of beds on LED sheets outside their foundations, at the passage point.
The accessibility of beds, both COVID and non-COVID, and the charges for the equivalent, including those for rooms or beds and subtleties of the contact individual for confirmation, ought to likewise be out in plain view, included Baijal.
Prior yesterday, Baijal had said that he had to strike down the request for the Arvind Kejriwal government, holding medical clinics in the national capital for city inhabitants, as it abused the protected right to uniformity and right to life, which incorporates right to wellbeing.
Addressing ANI, Baijal stated, “The request abused sacred right to correspondence and right to life which incorporates right to wellbeing. Prior additionally, a comparable request of Delhi government was struck somewhere near the High Court on the ground that no resident of India can be segregated on the grounds of the home.”
The inversion of the AAP government round saving COVID-19 medical clinics for Delhi occupants has become a flashpoint between the LG and Delhi government.
Be that as it may, the LG accentuated that during the hour of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was essential that all administration offices cooperate.
Ladakh standoff: China, India reached positive consensus to ease situation
Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged since May 5 following a violent clash in Pangong Tso.
Current Affairs : China said on Wednesday that Indian and Chinese soldiers have begun executing the “positive accord” came to by senior military authorities of the two nations on June 6 planned for “facilitating” the circumstance along the outskirts.
The Chinese outside service representative’s comments came a day after authorities in New Delhi proposed that multitudes of India and China have embraced a “restricted separation” in not many zones in eastern Ladakh in a showing of their plan to end the outskirt stalemate calmly in front of another round of military chats on Wednesday.
Gotten some information about the reports of the soldiers on the two sides separating and moving back to their past positions, Chinese outside service representative Hua Chunying told a media instructions here that the two sides are finding a way to facilitate the circumstance along the outskirts.
“As of late the discretionary and military channels of China and India held powerful correspondence on the circumstance along the outskirt and arrived at positive accord,” she said.
“The different sides are following this accord to take activities to facilitate the circumstance along the fringes,” the representative said.
Military sources in New Delhi said the two armed forces have started “withdrawal” around watching focuses 14 and 15 in Galwan Valley and another in the Hot Spring territory, including the Chinese side has even moved back up to 1.5 km in two regions.
Indian and Chinese soldiers have been locked in since May 5 after a savage conflict in Pangong Tso.
The trigger for the go head to head was China’s hardened restriction to India laying a key street in the Finger zone around the Pangong Tso Lake other than development of another street associating the Darbuk-Shayok-Daulat Beg Oldie street in Galwan Valley.
During their military-level chats on June 6, India and China consented to follow the expansive choices taken by their pioneers in the Wuhan culmination in 2018 to guarantee harmony and serenity along the Line of Actual Control.
On June 6, Lt General Harinder Singh, the general official instructing of Leh-based 14 Corps, and Commander of the Tibet Military District Maj Gen Liu Lin held a broad gathering.
The India-China fringe question covers the 3,488-km-long LAC. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as a major aspect of southern Tibet while India challenges it.
The office stays: How commercial real estate will survive Covid-19 crisis
Companies can’t make work-from-home a permanent feature of their business. India’s commercial real estate market will do well despite the pandemic, writes Anshuman Magazine
Aditi Mehta 