Morning Digest: Digital platforms asked to submit compliance reports within 15 days; EAM Jaishankar meets U.S. officers, lawmakers in Washington, and more

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked the digital media platforms to submit compliance reports as per the brand new middleman guidelines beneath the IT Act within 15 days.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has had a busy day and a half in Washington DC, the place he met authorities officers, together with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) ambassador Katherine Tai, lawmakers, and the personal sector.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday repeated the rules (beneath the Disaster Management Act, 2005) issued on April 29 to implement containment measures in districts the place both the take a look at positivity is more than 10 % in the previous one week or the place the mattress occupancy is more than 60%.

The Centre on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that the demand for liposomal amphotericin-B (LAmB), a drug used for treating mucormycosis, has exceeded the availability accessible by way of home manufacturing in addition to imports and due to this fact, the federal government had to regulate the availability to the States to keep away from hoarding and inequitable distribution.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to the areas affected by Cyclone Yaas in Odisha and West Bengal on Friday to assess the harm to life and materials due to the pure catastrophe. Sources in the federal government stated Prime Minister Modi’s first cease can be Bhubhaneswar the place he’ll maintain a overview meet, adopted by aerial surveys of Balasore and Bhadrak in Odisha, and Purba Medinipur in West Bengal, with one other overview meet with the State Government in Kolkata.

More than 1.84 crore COVID vaccine doses (1,84,90,522) are nonetheless accessible with the States/UTs to be administered and 11 lakh doses had been in the pipeline and to be obtained by the States/UTs within the following three days, stated an replace from the Health Ministry on Thursday.

Congress chief in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to restart the Member of Parliament Local Area (*15*) (MPLAD) scheme and make MPLAD funds accessible to MP

Amidst persevering with tensions between India and China on the Line of Actual Control, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will take part in a digital BRICS Ministerial assembly chaired by India, together with the Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia and South Africa on Tuesday, officers confirmed.

A five-judge Bench of Calcutta High Court on Thursday heard the Narada case and agreed to make the West Bengal authorities occasion to the case. The Bench, which is able to hear the applying once more on Friday, agreed to hear first the arguments of the recall software on the May 17 order, the place the High Court had cancelled the bail granted to 4 individuals arrested by a metropolis court docket.

The authorities on Thursday dismissed as “completely baseless” a latest New York Times report on COVID-19 toll in India, saying it’s not backed by any proof. At a press convention, the Union Health Ministry stated the report is totally false and primarily based on “distorted estimates”.

The draft Lakshadweep (*15*) Authority Regulation 2021, which supplies sweeping powers to the Administrator to take over land and relocate folks amongst others, would require ratification from the Home Ministry and the Union Cabinet earlier than it’s carried out.

Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday stated the Government of India had to reply why India was dealing with a vaccine scarcity regardless of being the world’s largest vaccine producers.

The more than three-decade lengthy period of engagement between the United States and China that noticed the world’s two largest economies develop carefully interdependent relations “has come to an end”, a high official of the Biden administration has stated.

Shiva Thapa nonetheless cannot fairly consider that securing a fifth successive medal on the prestigious Asian Boxing Championships is “some sort of an unparalleled achievement”.