Rs 10,000-cr job work offered under MNREGS to migrant workers: FM
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said Rs 10,000 crore has been spent in the last two months on creating 14.62 crore man-days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) to help migrant workers. Announcing the second tranche of economic stimulus package, she said the work has been offered to […]
Lockdown: Railways Cancels Tickets For Regular Trains Till June 30, Passengers To Get Full Refund
The Railways on Thursday said it has cancelled all tickets booked for regular passenger trains scheduled till June 30. However, Shramik Special trains, which started from May 1 to ferry stranded migrants to their home states, will continue to run, the railways said. The special trains which started running from May 12 will continue to […]
Only swadeshi products in CAPF canteens from June 1 after PM Modi’s push
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for “local” and “atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India)”, home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday announced that canteens of the central paramilitary forces will only sell indigenous products starting June 1. Shah also appealed to the public to make maximum use of “swadeshi (locally made)” products and encourage others to […]
Photos Of Uttarakhand’s New Tulip Garden, Among “World’s Biggest”, Go Viral
Dehradun: Photographs of the tulip garden in Munsyari, a tourist hotspot, by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat immediately went viral on Twitter and attracted a number of reactions, including from former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah. Seeing the pictures of the tulip garden, Mr Abdullah, in a tweet, said though the tulips being […]
Remdesivir to be made in India as 3 firms get nod from US drug-maker for generic version
New Delhi: American drug-maker Gilead late Tuesday announced signing voluntary licensing agreements with three Indian pharmaceutical companies to expand the supply of remdesivir — an experimental drug that has shown promise in treating Covid-19. The ‘non-exclusive’ agreements allow Cipla, Hetero Labs and Jubilant Lifesciences to manufacture remdesivir. The US firm has also allowed one drug-maker based in Pakistan, Ferozsons Laboratories, […]
PM Modi Announces Rs 20 Lakh Crore Economic Package To Make India ‘Self-reliant’
Prime Minister Narendra on Tuesday announced a special economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore for the country to become ‘self-reliant’ and deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. “I announce a special economic package today. This will play an important role in the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.’ The previous announcements made by the government over COVID-19, decisions […]
Glenmark starts clinical trials for potential Covid-19 drug in India
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said on Tuesday it has initiated clinical trials in India of antiviral drug favipiravir, seen as a potential treatment for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), for which it received approval from the country’s drug regulator in April. Mumbai-based Glenmark said in a BSE filing the approval made it the first pharmaceutical company in India […]
Many Indian H-1B visa card holders stuck in US after losing jobs
WASHINGTON : Several Indians in the US, either on the H-1B work visa or Green Card having children who are American citizens by birth, are being prevented from travelling to India aboard the special repatriation flights being run by Air India amidst the coronavirus-linked global travel restrictions. According to the regulations issued by the Indian government last […]
With 87 COVID-19 Deaths In Last 24 Hours, Fatalities In India Reach 2,293, Cases Near 71,000
India registered another 87 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatalities due to the novel coronavirus to 2,293, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Tuesday. The country recorded another 3,604 COVID-19 cases during the same period which took the total number to 70756. The MoHFW said that of […]
Explained: How will the pandemic play out? Some possible scenarios, from research
FOR THE last several months, the key questions on everybody’s mind have included how long the Covid-19 pandemic will run, and whether the disease will resurface season by season. Two new studies, first reported in The New York Times, project various shapes the Covid-19 curve can take. One study, published in Science, projects that winter outbreaks will probably […]