Month: March 2020

Losses of Electricity units not billed by States/UTs provisionally comes to 15.73 percent

Union Govt assisting States/UTs to reduce losses through various Schemes : Shri R K Singh open view news desk The Minister of State (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) for Power, New & Renewable Energy Shri R.K. Singh informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply today that as per the provisional data […]

Minority Schemes for Jammu and Kashmir

open view news desk The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs  implements programmes/schemes for the six (6) centrally notified minority communities namely, Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Muslims, Parsis and Sikhs as under:- — Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme, Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme, Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme – For educational empowerment of students. — […]

Opposition warns Govt against privatisation of railways

New Delhi, Mar 12: Several opposition parties on Thursday spoke against any move to privatise railways and asked the government to revert to the presentation of a separate rail budget in Parliament so that it could get adequate attention. Some opposition members, including Supriya Sule of the NCP and […]

SBI to invest Rs 7,250 cr for Yes Bank rescue

Mumbai, Mar 12: The largest lender State Bank of India on Thursday announced a Rs 7,250-crore fund infusion into the crippled Yes Bank under which it will pick up to 49 per cent equity in the fourth largest private sector lender. The fund infusion is part of the Reserve […]

BAI apprises BWF of government’s latest travel advisory

New Delhi, Mar 12: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has apprised the world body (BWF) on the latest travel advisory issued by the government, which might affect the India Open Super 500 tournament, a crucial event for the Tokyo Olympic qualification. BAI and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) […]

Scindia forgot his ideology as he was apprehensive about his political future: Rahul

New Delhi, Mar 12: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Jyotiraditya Scindia forgot his ideology as he was apprehensive about his political future and that he would not get respect in the BJP. Talking about Scindia’s move to the BJP ending his long association with the Congress, Gandhi […]

Coronavirus: Schools, colleges, cinema halls shut in Delhi till March 31

New Delhi, Mar 12: The Delhi government on Thursday declared coronavirus an epidemic and announced that all schools, colleges and cinema halls in the national capital will remain shut till March 31. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, LG Anil […]

Biden says fighting for US ‘soul’ after big primary wins

Joe Biden moved a giant step closer to a November showdown with Donald Trump after notching up big primary wins Tuesday over Bernie Sanders, his sole remaining challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden, 77, the centrist former vice president, scored a resounding win in Michigan, where Sanders, […]

Rare white giraffes killed by poachers in Kenya: conservationists

Kenya’s only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world. The bodies of the two giraffes were found “in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers” […]

US heart surgeon treats children lacking care in Libya’s war

TRIPOLI, Libya — Yazan, a 1-year-old Libyan boy, was born with congenital heart disease. With just one chamber, the organ pumped so little blood that when Yazan cried, his skin turned black. Without surgery, he would not survive. But Yazan’s country, Libya, has only one heart surgeon who […]

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