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The IMA on Saturday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ”benign intervention” to bring a central law to check violence against healthcare personnel and declare hospitals as safe zones with mandatory security entitlements. ”The 36-hour shift that the victim was in and the lack of safe spaces to rest and adequate restrooms warrant thorough overhaul of the working and living conditions …

Security

The Union government’s move to extend the free foodgrains scheme for the next five years is welcome as it will continue to provide food security to large sections of vulnerable people. Based on National Food Security Act entitlements, the scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, benefits about 80.4 crore people, under the categories of Antyodaya Anna Yojana and …

The GOP is coming for your Social Security and Medicare

They are coming for it following an election in which they notably failed to tell voters they were coming for it, and sometimes denied outright that they were. Washington Senator Patty Murray, for example, said the Republicans were planning to end Social Security and Medicare. “This is yet another example in which Democrats strain to conjure up a nonexistent GOP …

Social Security

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday launched the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme in 32 districts of Tamil Nadu. Under this scheme, families having Priority Household ration cards and Antodaya Anna Yojana ration cards from Tamil Nadu, while migrating to other States, can receive their monthly entitlements through biometric authentication under the National Food Security Act, 2013, an …