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 […]
FM Nirmala Sitharaman Announcements Live Updates: Congress says ‘cruel blow dealt to those who toil everyday’
FM Nirmala Sitharaman Announcements Live Updates: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Wednesday said there was nothing for the for the poor, hungry and migrant workers in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement on the Rs 20 lakh crore special Covid economic package today and it was a “cruel blow dealt to those who toil every day”. He also said […]
Deeply disturbing that criminal laws are being used to intimidate journalists: Editors Guild
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has said there is “a growing pattern of misuse of criminal laws to intimidate journalists” in different parts of the country, which is “deeply disturbing”. In a statement issued Wednesday, it cited the latest instances of Dhaval Patel, editor and owner of Gujarati news portal Face of Nation who was booked […]
ICMR starts household survey to gauge prevalence of coronavirus
The Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting a household-level antibody testing of 24,000 adults in select districts to “estimate the prevalence of (Covid-19) infection” among people. This new research comes on the heels of another facility-level pooled testing of all districts of the country. Both mark an enhanced level of testing surveillance from previous […]
67% of workers lost jobs during lockdown: Survey by Azim Premji University
About two-thirds, or 67 per cent, of workers lost employment during the ongoing lockdown to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, with urban India posting loss in employment for 8 in 10 workers and almost 6 in 10 workers in rural areas, as per initial findings of a phone survey of nearly 4,000 respondents conducted by Azim Premji University […]
