The subsequent changes in the social, geopolitical, and economic balance in the Indo-Pacific region in the last year have brought the recent Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with the US President Joe Biden. This first in-person meet of the Quad Summit will be reviewing the vaccine initiatives and the spiking global issues of cyber security, ...

PM Modi invites UK PM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended a formal invitation to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be the chief guest at the 2021 Republic Day celebrations in India.  As per media reports, the two leaders held a telephonic conversation on November 27 when PM Modi invited the UK Prime Minister ...

Zomato will no longer charge commission for takeaway service: On Wednesday, the food delivery company, Zomato decided that it would no longer charge commission for its takeaway service from its partner restaurants. The company took the decision to help restaurants ramp up their sales and recover faster from the ongoing financial crisis brought upon by ...

COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the crisis of child labour in India, with several underprivileged families forced to push their children into menial jobs to meet ends. India has the largest child population in the world with 472 million children living across all parts of the nation. With the COVID-19 outbreak starting to spread across India ...

After months of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to take the skies with three rocket launches in the next few months. According to an ISRO senior official, the space agency is preparing three rockets for launch at its Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-Shar) in Sriharikota, ...

On Wednesday, Indian government introduced new guidelines called Unlock 5.0 to selectively reopen schools, colleges. multiplexes, theme parks, and swimming pools depending on the infection rate in a state. The Ministry of Home Affairs specified that the new guidelines of limited relaxations would be applicable from Oct. 15 and only in non- containment zones. Ministry ...

India will be using a digital infrastructure for the dissemination and inventory management of the novel Covid-19 virus vaccine once it becomes available. It is also devising a fool proof method of procurement including both indigenous and international. This will also include guiding principles to prioritize focus groups. The national expert group on vaccine administration ...

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday stated that the Indian population is still far from achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 as indicated by early findings of the second Sero survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) across the country. “The findings of the second sero survey are going to be ...

In Delhi, more than 700 Covid-19 patients have been successfully administered convalescent plasma therapy. This was possible because of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s initiative for setting up India’s first plasma bank in the capital. In a press conference, Delhi CM stated that due to plasma therapy the recovery of critically ill patients has increased. In ...

Despite the economy showing signs of progress and recover post a long 90 day lockdown period, India’s fuel consumption is not going seeing an upward movement. Blame it on many corporate still opting to work from home, the demand for fuel has not gone by since June 2020. According to government data, the demand has ...