Month: April 2021

Train crash kills 48 in Taiwan’s deadliest rail tragedy for decades

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island’s worst rail disaster in almost four decades. Images from the scene showed carriages in the tunnel ripped apart by the impact, with others […]

India records Highest Single Day Vaccine Coverage with more than 36.7 lakh Doses administered in the last 24 hours

Over 6.87 cr vaccine doses administered across the country Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh report a steep rise in Daily New Cases DELHI, APRIL 2: India has achieved a milestone in its vaccination drive with the highest ever single day figure of […]

Highways construction touches record 37 km per day: Gadkari

New Delhi, Apr 2: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the pace of highways construction in the country has touched a record 37 km per day in financial year 2020-21. He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]

DMK and Congress leaders keep insulting women, says Modi in TN rally

Madurai (TN), Apr 2:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched yet another blistering attack on the DMK and Congress, charging that their leaders “keep insulting women”, while pointing out that the NDA schemes are aimed at empowering women. Addressing an election rally here seeking votes for NDA […]

India records highest single-day vaccine coverage

New Delhi, Apr 2: More than 36.7 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day coverage till now, the Union Health ministry said on Friday. Of the 36,71,242 vaccine doses, 33,65,597 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 51,215 sessions for the first dose and 3,05,645 […]

Migrants freed without court notice — sometimes no paperwork

MISSION, Texas — Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — time-saving moves that have left some migrants confused. The rapid releases ease pressure on the Border Patrol […]

Pakistan decision on India trade deferred until Delhi reviews Kashmir status -foreign minister

Pakistan’s decision on whether to reopen trade with India has been deferred by the cabinet until Delhi reviews its 2019 move to revoke the Kashmir region’s special status, Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Thursday. In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee on […]

India launches biggest vaccination drive yet against a surging coronavirus

India began vaccinating tens of thousands of people above the age of 45 on Thursday in its biggest push yet against a surging coronavirus that has hit the highest daily count since early October, officials said. The world’s second most populous country aims to immunise 400 million people […]

Analysis: Can Joe Biden recreate the U.S. economy he grew up with?

Joe Biden will almost certainly be the last U.S. president born as a member of the “silent generation” demographic group who were children during World War Two, came of age in an economic boom that built middle class wealth, and cemented the role of the United States as […]

Labour Bureau launches two of the five all-India surveys

DG Labour Bureau assures launching of remaining three surveys soon DELHI, APRIL 1: The Labour Bureau has recently been tasked with five major All India Surveys by the Government of India. The five surveys are the All-India Survey of Migrant Workers, All-India Survey on Domestic Workers, All-India Survey […]

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