A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
Jakarta, Apr 27: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles). There was no tsunami warning.
High-rises in the capital Jakarta swayed for around a minute and two-story homes shook strongly in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung and in Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor and Bekasi. The quake was also felt in other cities in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java province, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
Earthquakes are frequent across the sprawling archipelago nation, but they are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2022 killed at least 602 people in West Java's Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
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3.42 lakh fraud cases detected under Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY; Over 56,000 unnecessary surgeries
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry informed Parliament on Friday that nearly 3.42 lakh fraudulent cases, including unnecessary surgeries, have been detected under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
Responding to a query by Congress MP Murari Lal Meena in the Lok Sabha, the ministry revealed that as of 11 December, 342,988 fraud cases had been identified under the health insurance scheme, which was launched in 2018.
According to the ministry's written response, 286,771 cases were linked to medical management, while 56,217 involved surgical management. The scheme has recorded 8.39 crore hospital admissions to date, with fraudulent cases accounting for less than 0.5%.
The government assured that measures are in place to detect and prevent fraud in the implementation of the scheme.
