New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to extend distribution of 5kg foodgrains per month for free under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to over 80 crore ration card holders for four months till March 2022, a decision that will cost an additional Rs 53,344 crore to the exchequer. Free […]
NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded that the government provide credible data on Covid deaths in the country and pay a compensation of Rs four lakh each to families of those who lost their lives due to coronavirus. Gandhi shared a video in which families, who lost their dear ones due […]
NEW DELHI: Citing multiple surges in coronavirus cases in several countries, the Union Health Ministry has written to 13 states and union territories, including West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab, expressing concerns over declining weekly testing rates and spiking positivity rates in some districts. In a letter to Nagaland, Sikkim, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya, […]
NEW DELHI: India added 9,283 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,35,763 while the active cases declined to 1,11,481, the lowest in 537 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 4,66,584 with 437 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated […]
NEW DELHI: International passenger flight services are expected to be normalised “very soon” and possibly by the end of this year, Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal said on Wednesday. Scheduled international passenger flights to and from India remain suspended since March 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension has been extended till November 30. Normalisation […]
WASHINGTON: The United States has not made a determination yet on any potential Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) waiver to India with regard to its purchase of S-400 missile defense system from Russia, the Biden Administration said Tuesday. The State Department comments come a week after India started receiving the supplies of S-400 […]
NEW DELHI: National Health Authority CEO and senior member of founding team of Aadhaar RS Sharma on Wednesday criticised some of the restrictions imposed by the Unique Identification Authority of India over use of the unique ID due to apprehensions around privacy. Sharma, who was the first director general of UIDAI, said that the concept […]
Immune responses to other human coronaviruses, which mostly only cause harmless colds, can provide some protection against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications’. It is known that infections with the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, and vaccination lead to strong antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2. This week, researchers at the […]
New Delhi: Gold in the national capital on Wednesday declined by Rs 119 to Rs 46,613 per 10 gram amid an overnight decline in international precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had settled at Rs 46,732 per 10 gram. Silver also tumbled Rs 517 to Rs 61,671 […]
Tokyo: Global shares were mixed Wednesday as worries about inflation set off expectations the US Federal Reserve might move faster than anticipated to raise interest rates. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.4 per cent to 7,074.05 in early trading, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.1 per cent to 15,955.14. Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.5 per cent […]