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Says its to save jobs for immigration U USA President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will issue an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States to protect US workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. “It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad,” Trump said in a White House press briefing. “We must first take care of the American worker.” Trump said the executive order would only apply to immigrants seeking permanent residency in the United States, a process informally known as obtaining a green card. The order will however not affect people entering on temporary non-immigrant visas, he said. Such visas are used by tourists, business travelers and foreign workers. The US Department of State issued roughly 462,000 immigrant visas in fiscal year 2019, which began on October 1, 2018. HE said the order, which could be signed as soon as Wed...

No portfolios to ministers; tasked with controlling Corona spread F Five ministers were inducted into the Shivraj Singh Chouhan cabinet on Tuesday. It took nearly a month for Madhya Pradesh chief minister to form his council of ministers. The five inducted ministers include BJP leaders Narottam Mishra, Kamal Patel, and Meena Singh while two ministers, Govind Singh Rajput and Tulsi Silawat, have been inducted from the ranks of ex-Congress MLAs, who had switched over to the BJP in mid-March. The micro-sized cabinet has been formed keeping in mind the factions and recent entry of Congress’ ex-MLAs into BJP. No portfolios were awarded to the new ministers instead they have each been given responsibilities of two divisions each. The cabinet formation comes after intense lobbying and numerous rounds of discussions between BJP state and central leaders and those between former union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and the central BJP leadership. Congress launched scathing attacks ...

The coronavirus pandemic is going to get worse, the World Health Organization warned on Monday. “Without national unity and global solidarity, trust us, the worst is yet ahead of us,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand.” The virus has infected more than 2.4 million people and killed over 167,000. WHO’s warning comes as nations like Germany and Norway have started easing restrictions put in place to fight the outbreak. Tedros didn’t go into details about what could lie ahead, but he did point to politics as a reason for potentially worsening conditions. Tedros said. “It’s the political problem that may fuel further this pandemic,” Pushing politics amid the pandemic “is like playing with fire,” he added. WHO has been thrown into a political battle with President Donald Trump, who has accused the organization of being “China-centric” and of allowing Beijing to spread ...

SP transferred, govt orders probe T hree days after being beaten up by police for violation of lockdown restrictions, a 50-year-old farmer in Jabalpur died on Monday. Following the death of the farmer the state government transferred the Jabalpur district superintendent of police (SP) Amit Singh to police headquarters in state capital Bhopal. Another IPS officer Siddharth Bahuguna was appointed as Jabalpur SP on Monday evening. Before his transfer former SP Amit Singh had suspended six cops. DIG (Jabalpur) Manohar Varma said a probe has been ordered into the death of Banshi Kushwah. Varma added that a video in which the victim named the policemen has been included in the probe. In the video, the victim alleged the policemen asked him about a gambling den and beat him up when he said he did not know about it. It is alleged that the farmer was on his way home after attending to cattle in his field on April 16 when the police stopped and assaulted him. Banshi’s family member...

A welcome move and a morale booster G Government of Madhya Pradesh has announced Rs 50 lakh insurance for private doctors and medical workers directly engaged in the fight against Coronavirus. Earlier, the government had announced the facility only for government medical workers. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made this announcement on Saturday during the video conference in the request of private doctors to prevent Corona infection. The Chief Minister thanked the private doctors for their encouragement and cooperation in the battle against Corona infection. MP has started production of PPE kits natively in Pithampur along with Budhni in the state itself. He said that the Health department will list it on the basis of demand and availability. In another big relief to the farmers Crop Loan Scheme on zero percent interest rate, which was in implementation in the previous years will be continued in the year 2020-21 also to provide crop loans to the farmers. The governmen...