-The Indian government’s #UnionCabinet has approved three new #naturalgas marketing reforms to give a boost to the gas economy and reduce import dependence.
-This includes setting up a new e-bidding platform, prohibiting producing companies from participating in the bidding process and bringing all different fiscal models under the new bidding mechanism.
“India currently produces 84 million standard cubic meters (MMSCM)...
▶️The new rules significantly raise the existing wage levels of H-1B employees. There are four wage levels, and the minimum amount for each has been bumped up — in certain cases, to more than double than what it used to be.
▶️The definition of ‘speciality occupation’ has also been narrowed down. Only certain types of degrees will now qualify a candidate for a visa.
▶️Select contract workers will also have a shorter time limit on their visas.
The World Bank has warned that by 2021, as many as 150 million people are likely to be in extreme poverty because of the #coronaviruspandemic and countries will have to prepare for a "different economy" post-#COVID.
COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021, depending on the severity of the economic contraction, according to the Washington-based global lender.
Canadian actor and the writer, producer of the immensely popular comedy show Schitt’s Creek Daniel Levy (@danjlevy) lashed out at the Indian arm of a global television channel for allegedly censoring a kiss between the two leading men of the show.
Levy took to Twitter about the censorship of gay intimacy on particularly the Indian channel. @danjlevy had pointed out a snippet from the show that Comedy Central India had shared on Twitter in March 2019 when the show was being aired on the channel.
After seven months of shutdown due to #COVID19, cinema halls will reopen on October 15 as per the MHA guidelines, the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister @PrakashJavdekar said on Tuesday.
These are the guidelines and SOPs to be followed at all cinema halls:
➡️Cinema halls will only be allowed to accommodate people up to 50% of their capacity.
➡️Visitors will maintain one-seat distance and will have to wear masks at all times mandatorily.
Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions more suitable for life than our own and some of these orbit stars that may be better than even our Sun.
A study, led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch and published in the journal Astrobiology, detailed characteristics of potential "superhabitable" planets, that include those that are older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth.