‘Negotiations haven’t worked till now’: Supreme Court proposes panel of farmers, government
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday issued a notice to the Centre and others on a batch of petitions seeking removal of farmers camping at several roads near Delhi borders in protest against the three new agriculture laws. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde, and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian also […]
EPFO settles 52 lakh Covid-19 claims, disburses Rs 13,300 crore: Santosh Gangwar
NEW DELHI: Retirement fund body EPFO has settled 52 lakh COVID-19 non-refundable advance claims, and disbursed Rs 13,300 crore so far, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said on Wednesday. In March, the government had allowed over 6 crore subscribes of EPFO to withdraw an amount not exceeding their three months basic pay and dearness allowance from […]
Covid-19 vaccine had robust immune response in Phase 1 trial: Bharat Biotech
NEW DELHI: The interim findings of phase 1 clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the ICMR, showed that it was was well tolerated in all dose groups with no serious or adverse events. The vaccine induced robust binding and neutralising antibody responses which were comparable to those […]
Jagan Mohan Reddy urges Amit Shah to release Polavaram project funds
AMARAVATI / NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday night called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed various issues of importance to the state, including releasing funds for the Polavaram project. Reddy submitted a memorandum on Polavaram and urged Shah to consider the second revised cost estimate as […]
India, NDB sign agreement for $1,000 million to provide support to Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
NEW DELHI: The government of India and the New Development Bank (NDB) today signed a loan agreement for lending $1,000 million for ‘supporting India’s economic recovery from COVID-19’ by supporting expenditures on rural infrastructure related to natural resource management (NRM) and rural employment generation under Government of India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme […]
India and World Bank sign $400 million project to protect India’s poor and vulnerable from the impact of COVID-19
NEW DELHI: The Government of India and the World Bank today signed a $400 million project to support India’s efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the second operation in a programmatic series of two. The first operation of $750 million was approved […]
Cabinet approves assistance of about Rs. 3,500 crore for sugarcane farmers
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved assistance of about Rs. 3,500 crore for sugarcane farmers (Ganna Kisan). Currently, there are close to five crore sugarcane farmers (Ganna Kisan) and their dependents in India. In addition to this, there are about five lakh workers employed in […]
Cabinet approves auction of spectrum
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a proposal of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to conduct spectrum auction through which spectrum will be assigned to the successful bidders for providing commercial mobile services. The auction will be for spectrum in 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 […]
Quarter of world may not get Covid-19 vaccine until 2022: Study
NEW YORK: In a major study, researchers have revealed that nearly a quarter of the world’s population may not have access to a Covid-19 vaccine until at least 2022. The findings, published in the journal The BMJ, suggest that the operational challenges of the global Covid-19 vaccination programme will be at least as difficult as […]
Yogi Adityanath government claims over 26 lakh people employed in 8 months
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Yogi Adityanath government has challenged its critics claiming that 26,62,960 people have been provided employment in the last eight months. An action plan was prepared on the instructions of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Acting on this action plan, 26,62,960 people have been employed in 6,65,740 new […]
Gujarat anti-land grab Act comes into force, district bodies to probe cases
GNADHINAGAR: The Gujarat Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2020 came into force from Wednesday. Under the Act, which is aimed at preventing the forceful takeover of land from farmers, private landowners, government institutions, the government has formed seven- member committees at the district level to probe such cases. Under this act, which was brought in the […]
Facebook’s India head deposes before Parliamentary panel
KOLKATA: Lashing out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remarks that the BJP was ‘spending money’ to bring in a party from Hyderabad to her state to divide Hindu-Muslim votes, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said Muslim voters were not her ‘jagir’ (property). Rebutting Banerjee’s comments, Owaisi tweeted, “So far you’ve only dealt […]
Telecom department looking to ‘unleash’ 5G potential, exploring uses: Official
NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is looking to unleash the potential of spectrum and is exploring meaningful applications for 5G technology, a top official of the department said on Tuesday. At the CII Partnership Summit 2020, Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash also said the government is soon going to come up with an incentive […]
Airtel believes ARPU will reach Rs 200 levels in few months: Report
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel is of the view that average revenue per users (ARPUs) would have touched Rs 200 already had the pandemic not happened, and believes that the company should get there in the next few months, according to a latest Goldman Sachs report. In a recent note, Goldman Sachs said it had hosted […]
Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory
By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON:More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively chose the Democrat. Foreign leaders joined the parade, too, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Speaking from the floor of the U.S. […]
Donald Trump voters accept Joe Biden victory ‘with reservations’
By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN COOPER WASHINGTON: Robert Reed says he will always believe the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump. The retired police officer-turned-construction worker believes fraud marred the vote, no matter how many courts rejected that claim. Still, a day after the Electoral College made Joe Biden’s win official, the ardent […]