Put money in hands of people, will be catastrophic if this doesn’t happen: Rahul Gandhi to Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday said the Centre should stop acting like a “money lender” for its children by giving them credit instead of cash, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the coronavirus economic stimulus package. Speaking with journalists of regional media via video conferencing, Rahul said he was trying to put pressure on the government […]
Lockdown 4.0 guidelines: How rules will be different from existing ones from May 18
Lockdown 4.0 Guidelines: India will enter into the fourth phase of lockdown from May 18 but with a different set of rules and guidelines as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to the nation on May 11. The new guidelines will be based on the suggestions made by chief ministers of all the states to […]
US Will Donate Ventilators To India, Stand With Narendra Modi, Says Donald Trump
President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States will donate ventilators to India to help it fight novel coronavirus pandemic, adding the two countries are cooperating to develop a vaccine. Trump added that he stood by India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this hour of crisis. “I am proud to announce that the […]
One Nation One Ration Card, Free Food To Migrants, Rs 30,000 Crore Additional Fund For Farmers, Says FM: Highlights
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the second tranche of economic stimulus package will be for the benefit of migrant workers, street vendors and small farmers. She 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 […]
Rent, ration and free food for migrants focus of Sitharaman’s 2nd economic package tranche
In her second press conference in as many days, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday unveiled an economic package to help alleviate the distress for small farmers, migrant workers, small traders and self-employed people under the “Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant)” campaign announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Moreover, migrant workers who do not have either central or state PDS cards […]
Vijay Mallya Faces Likely Extradition After Losing Plea To Move UK Supreme Court
In a major setback, embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Thursday lost his application seeking leave to appeal in the UK Supreme Court, weeks after the London High Court rejected his appeal against an extradition order to India on charges of fraud and money laundering related to unrecovered loans to his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines. The […]
FM Sitharaman’s 2nd phase of announcement on economic package today at 4pm
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address the media again on Thursday at 4 pm in the second phase of announcements on government’s Rs 20 lakh crore package. This comes a day after she held a press conference and shared details of the stimulus package on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the finance minister said that, over the […]
Railways says all tickets booked for travel on or before June 30 cancelled; Shramik, special trains remain unaffected
The Ministry of Railways has announced that all train tickets booked before March 25 for travel on or before June 30 will stand cancelled and a full refund will be provided to customers. The announcement applies to the reservation of passenger rail travel tickets booked before the coronavirus lockdown for travel up to June 30, […]
No Money, Stranded Indians In Gulf Countries Say They Can’t Afford Tickets To Return
Thirty-year-old Shahina has been anxiously waiting for her husband Arif Mohammed (name changed) since Indian government’s announcement of repatriating its citizens from Gulf and other countries. Shahina, who is expecting her third baby in the last week of May, wants her husband to come back at the earliest. Shahina has been sending out SOS messages […]
14 Migrant Workers Killed In Twin Road Accidents In Madhya Pradesh And UP; Several Injured
At least 14 migrant workers were killed and dozens injured in two different road accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh since late Wednesday evening. Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday. The accident […]
