NEW DELHI: An evaluation by global organisation Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to analyse the effectiveness of India’s anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing regime has been postponed for the second time in view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and is now slated to be initiated next year, officials said. The scheduled assessment for the […]
Lucknow: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said her party is “open-minded” on the issue of forging an alliance with other political parties for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. Asked whether the Congress will go alone on all the 403 Assembly seats in the state or align with some political party, the party […]
Envision Group, a world-leading green technology company, recently donated dozens of oxygen concentrators and 44,000 protective masks to India in wake of the shortage of essential medical supplies during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Shri Ajith Pawar inaugurated the donation event on 16th June 2021, together with the Minister […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a “stress test” for the Indian pharma industry, and exposed its high dependence on imported raw materials and “surprisingly low” research and development efforts, a paper in RBI’s July bulletin said on Thursday. “The high import dependency and surprisingly low R&D intensity of exports in the Indian pharmaceutical sector call […]
NEW DELHI: India recorded 38,079 new coronavirus cases, which took the infection tally to 3,10,64,908, while the death toll reached 4,13,091 with 560 more fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases have declined to 4,24,025 and comprise 1.36 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery […]
UNITED NATIONS: India recorded the greatest increase in the world in the number of children not receiving a first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combined vaccine in 2020, the UN has said, noting with concern that 23 million children globally missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunisation services last year due to disruptions caused by COVID-19. […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said those who were afraid of facing the reality and the BJP were free to leave the party, while fearless leaders outside the Congress should be brought in. Addressing social media workers of the party at an online event, Gandhi said those who were afraid had left […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that rising COVID-19 cases in some states remain a matter of concern as he asked them to take proactive measures to rule out a third wave by moving forward with the strategy of test, track, treat and ‘tika (vaccine)’. In a video interaction with chief ministers […]
New Delhi: India recorded 38,949 new Covid cases, which took the infection tally to 3,10,26,829, while the death toll reached 4,12,531 with 542 more fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The active cases have declined to 4,30,422 and comprise 1.39 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid recovery […]
NEW DELHI: More than 81,000 personnel of the paramilitary forces such as the CRPF and the BSF have taken voluntary retirement in the last decade, the maximum of over 11,000 in 2017 alone. According to the Union Home Ministry data, 15,904 personnel also resigned from their respective organisations between 2011 and 2020 — the highest […]