In January alone, the government received USD 960 million in foreign loans, including USD 675 million from commercial banks, which were the most expensive loans
As Bhubaneswar recorded a temperature of 39.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday making it the country's hottest city in February, the state government gave instructions to all districts to prepare for a possible heat-wave situation
Stating that WHO has set a benchmark for how much diagnostics in testing was enough, Soumya Swaminathan said if the positivity rate (of a disease) was five per cent or more, it means you should be testing more
New Delhi did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention, which spells out refugee rights and state responsibilities to protect them. Nor does it have a law protecting refugees, though it currently hosts more than 200,000, including some Rohingya
The overall poverty rate fell to 11.3% last month from 11.8% in December, thanks to both stimulus payments and supplemental unemployment benefits
Currently, priority group people including health workers and frontline workers are being administered the vaccine at 212 government and private health centres in Delhi
Data compiled by the department showed that 60 per cent of the total testing in the state, which stands at 1,61,99,818 as on Saturday, was as per the RT-PCR method
He said the new framework of asset reconstruction for example, the entire insolvency regime, will go a long way in solving the NPA problem both of banks and as corporates, which in any case, is looking much better
The House voted 219-212 to pass the bill, a sharp break from previous aid packages that had drawn wide bipartisan support. No Republican in the House voted for it, and no Republican senator are expected to either. Two House Democrats also voted against it
In a circular, the registry said that instead of WhatsApp, the links for virtual court hearings in the apex court will be shared on registered email ids and registered mobile numbers
CPPIB's Mark Machin had committed a double political sin -- taking a trip in defiance of PM’s warnings to avoid international travel, and getting a shot most other Canadians can’t get because of the country’s limited vaccine supplies
In February last year, the US and Taliban signed a peace agreement in Doha, Qatar, which provisioned withdrawal of all American and NATO troops from war-torn Afghanistan by May 1
The ministry has announced that in order to ramp up covid vaccination capacity, a number of private facilities are being included in the process
