Новости за 19.02.2020

It was an unforgettable moment for everyone who witnessed it, and on Tuesday, the lump-in-throat inducing memory of Sachin Tendulkar being carried by his teammates after India won the 2011 World Cup was voted the greatest ‘Laureus Sporting Moment 2000-2020’ of the last two decades. The iconic image, titled ‘Carried on the shoulders of a nation’, was declared the winner in a global vote. Sachin became the first Indian to win a Laureus, the most prestigious sporting award in the world.

Details provided by the labour & employment ministry states that the number of jobs generated under PMEGP plummeted from 5.87 lakh in 2018-19 to 2.57 lakh in 2019-20 (until December 31, 2019). The fall is less sharp compared to 2017-18 when the number of persons who benefited was 3.87 lakh. The numbers were 4 lakh for 2016-17 and 3.23 lakh for 2015-16.

The law ministry is working on a note to be put up before the Union Cabinet for the decision which, apart from sanitising the electoral roll, will save migrants from what amounts to “disenfranchisement” by changing the current practice where they can vote only if they are in the constituency where they are registered as voters.

Thousands of people who have been cured of mental illness are being “illegally detained” in 43 mental hospitals across 24 states as only two states have constituted mental health review boards (MHRB). These are meant to review all cases of people who have been held in an institution for 30 days. According to the report of a Task Force constituted by the health ministry, over 36% of patients in mental hospitals have been there for one year or more.