Given the robust and statute-based death registration system in India, while some cases could go undetected as per the principles of infectious disease and its management, missing out on the deaths is unlikely, the Union Health Ministry said.
Coming down heavily on the Centre over the ongoing Pegasus controversy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called for the opposition to unite against the BJP.
The 32-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology headed by Tharoor is scheduled to meet on July 28. The agenda of the meeting is 'Citizens' data security and privacy', according to the notification issued by Lok Sabha Secretariat.
In an online briefing, Sisodia accused the BJP-led Centre of not allowing the formation of a committee for probing deaths caused due to oxygen shortage during second wave of COVID-19 in Delhi.
Opposition members raised uproar in both houses and demanded a thorough probe into the charges of snooping on journalists, politicians, ministers, judges and others using Israeli Pegasus spyware.
India also ranked second in terms of volume of legal demands for content removal after Japan, Twitter said in a blog that provided an update to its transparency report.
In a letter to all states and UTs, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla also said Covid-appreciate behaviour is not being adhered to in public transport and massive crowds are thronging marketplaces, violating social distancing norms.
Delhi High Court said that the hope expressed in Article 44 of the Constitution that the state shall secure for its citizens Uniform Civil Code "ought not to remain a mere hope".
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy said, "No governance model requiring such collaboration can work if either of the two sides take a 'my way or the highway' approach - which both seem to have adopted."
Twitter told the Delhi High Court that it needs 8 weeks to appoint regular resident grievance redressal officers under the IT Rules. It also informed the court that the interim chief compliance officer has been appointed on July 6, interim grievance officer will be appointed by July 11 and interim nodal contact person in 2 weeks.
Till now, the Department of Public Enterprises was part of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
These teams interact with the State/UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks.
If you are going to invoke the... digital copyright act of America then you have to also be cognisant of the copyright rules of India. That is the point, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
The Parliamentary Panel has also asked Google, Facebook that they have to comply with new IT rules, court orders.
The source said that Dharmendra Chatur, who was recently appointed as interim resident grievance officer for India by Twitter, has quit from the post.
The Centre said the recommendation, for procurement of foreign vaccines, is a well-considered, and unprecedented policy intervention, made in light of the global experience of these foreign vaccines which have now been administered to millions of individuals and have proven safety across populations of different ethnicities.
The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that it is "continuously preparing" the states and union territories, and their infrastructure to deal with future resurgence of COVID-19 in the country.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla's letter to States and Union Territories came following several incidents of attack on doctors and healthcare professionals in different parts of the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
It said that 28,50,99,130 vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through the Centre- free of cost channel- and through the direct state procurement category.
It even asked the social media giant that why it should not be fined for 'violating' rule of land.
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