Month: April 2021

Indian farmers vow to carry on months-long protest despite concerns over coronavirus

Thousands of Indian farmers, protesting over three new agricultural laws that they say threaten their livelihoods, have vowed to continue with their around-the-clock sit-ins despite a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the country. Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh states in the north and the desert […]

Indian hospitals battle ‘chaotic’ surge as daily virus infections cross 200,000

Many Indian hospitals were scrambling for beds and oxygen as COVID-19 infections surged to a new daily record on Thursday, with a second wave of infections centred on the rich western state of Maharashtra. Experts blamed everything from official complacency to aggressive variants. The government blamed a widespread […]

EXCLUSIVE Aramco pipeline investors to refinance loans with bonds next year – sources

EIG Global Energy Partners will lead a yet-unnamed consortium to issue billions of dollars in bonds across two or three transactions to replace bank debt backing an investment in Saudi Aramco’s (2222.SE) oil pipeline assets, two sources said. The Washington, D.C.-based firm’s consortium will issue bonds to replace $10.5 billion […]

EXCLUSIVE Biden to bar U.S. banks from buying Russian government rouble debt in primary markets

President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Thursday authorizing the U.S. government to sanction any sector of the Russian economy and will use it to restrict Russia’s ability to issue sovereign debt to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2020 U.S. election, senior Biden administration officials […]

PIB’S BULLETIN ON COVID-19

Posted On: 15 APR 2021, Delhi #Unite2FightCorona #IndiaFightsCorona India’s Cumulative Vaccination Coverage exceeds 11.44Crore The cumulative number of COVID19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 11.44 Cr today. Over 33 lakh vaccination doses were administered in the last 24 hours. As on Day-89 of the vaccination […]

India Holds National Dialogue on UN Food Systems Summit 2021

DELHI, APRIL 15: The United Nations Secretary General has called for the first ever UN Food Systems Summit to be held in September 2021 to strategize the actions for positive change in Agri-food systems in the Worldto realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Summit will focus on […]

Financial markets to remain shut for Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti

Mumbai, Apr 14:  Domestic financial markets, including stock exchanges and the forex market, will remain closed on Wednesday on account of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti. PTI http://www.ptinews.com/news/12338622_Financial-markets-to-remain-shut-for-Dr–Baba-Saheb-Ambedkar-Jayanti.html

Man hacks six of family to death in AP village

Visakhapatnam, Apr 15: A person allegedly hacked six members of a family, including an infant, to death and later surrendered to the police at a village in Visakhapatnam district early on Thursday. City Commissioner of Police Manish Kumar Sinha visited Juttada village under Pendurthi mandal to take stock of […]

Petrol price cut by 16 paise, diesel 14 paise

New Delhi, Apr 15: Petrol price on Thursday was cut by 16 paise per litre and diesel by 14 paise — the fourth minor reduction in rates in three weeks that followed six months of relentless price increases. Petrol now costs Rs 90.40 per litre in Delhi, down from […]

Iran’s supreme leader: Vienna offers ‘not worth looking at’

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday dismissed initial offers at talks in Vienna to save Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal as “not worth looking at,” taking a hard-line approach after an attack on the country’s main nuclear enrichment site. The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, […]

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