Tag: India
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India wins second massive Financial loan from World Bank for COVID-19 response strategy
The World Bank has agreed to pump in another $1billion into India’s efforts to give the economy a fresh growth impetus after the lockdown period has been decided to be extended by the Centre. Last month, the World Bank had already given India a loan of $1 billion to support the health sector. India seems ... -
India to create jobs for Migrant workers in lockdown times
There is good news for migrant workers in India. With labour reform laws being relaxed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, job seekers can now find work, despite the terrible lockdown situation that had brought the Indian economy to a grinding halt. The labour law reform is also a way for the Centre to open ... -
COVID-19 Fight – INR 3,100 crores allocated from PM Cares Fund
The Prime Minister Office (PMO) said on Wednesday that the PM Cares Fund has decided to allocate INR 3,100 crores to India’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the other things the amount is said to be used to purchase ventilators and care of migrant workers, PMO clarified. Out of the amount allocated by ... -
How India will emerge strong fighting a ‘Silent Enemy’?
The massive nationwide lockdown of India took the world by surprise. It was done silently, without any (or virtually) very little mudslinging matches on display in the social media or on news channels. India has, for the first time, been forced into working in solidarity with one man who knows how to take the nation ... -
UAE receives 88 Indian Medical professionals to defend COVID-19
Corona Pandemic have become a great threat to humanity in modern times and the nations across the world are giving their best to protect their people from getting affected by corona virus. The friendship bond that UAE and India cherish is well-established in the previous occasions such as PM Modi visit to UAE. The National ... -
PM Modi’s meeting with the state CMs over lockdown 3.0 exit plan begins
Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with the CMs over exiting the lockdown 3.0 begins today, a few hours ago. On Sunday, the Center had urged the states to guarantee firm adherence towards the measures in the containment zones. They also reminded the states for making sure no chaos happens throughout the nationwide lockdown. While limitations ... -
Asymptomatic Indians returning from abroad pose new challenge
Many Indians stranded in the UK, were brought back to Bangalore and Mumbai over the last two days under the Vande Bharat mission started by the Centre. Charted through Air India’s special planes more than 600 passengers that have landed back into India are said to be asymptomatic carriers of the Covid-19 disease. In the ... -
‘We Need Strong Leaders, Not Just One Strong PM’ to Battle Coronavirus Pandemic, says Rahul Gandhi
On Saturday, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi declared that the Narendra Modi government requires delegating powers to the states. He stressed that the coronavirus pandemic should be contained at the district level. He pushed for more noteworthy transparency by Center on the plan to re-open the economy, as the lockdown 3.0 ends on May 17. ... -
Can liquor shops handle Social Distancing protocols?
Liquor (like most of the West) makes India go around too. But a prolonged Corona Virus lockdown across the nation of 1 billion people has led to an unbearably stretched dry spell. Centre has been under immense pressure to open up liquor stores. But this isn’t because people are suffering due to withdrawal. It is ... -
ICMR increases no. of private lab testing from 8 to 13 for coronavirus pandemic in Delhi
The count of COVID-19 cases crossed 56,000 across the nation and death reached to 1,886. The number of testing facilities for coronavirus at private labs in Delhi has been extended from 8 to 13 now. The coronavirus response advisory group stated that the Delhi state is presumably going to see its peak in Covid-19 cases ...









