Month: May 2021

Recommendations of 43rd GST Council meeting

COVID-19 related medical goods including Amphotericin B for free distribution given full exemption from IGST upto 31.08.2021 Custom duty exemption also given to Amphotericin B Amnesty Scheme to provide relief to taxpayers regarding late fee for pending returns ; Late fee also rationalised for future tax periods Simplification […]

Government launches YUVA – Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors

Author Mentorship programme to train young and budding authors Young Writers to pay tribute to heroes of India’s freedom struggle to mark celebrations of India @75 DELHI, MAY 29: The Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education today launched YUVA-  Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors, an Author […]

BULLETIN ON COVID-19

Posted On: 28 MAY 202, Delhi At 1.86 Lakh Cases, Daily New Cases lowest in last 44 daysLess than 3 lakh Daily New Cases for 12 consecutive daysRecoveries continue to outnumber the Daily New Cases for 15th consecutive dayRecovery Rate increases to 90.34% Daily Positivity Rate at 9.00%; less […]

Update on COVID Relief Aid

18,040 Oxygen Concentrators; 19,085 Oxygen Cylinders; 19 Oxygen Generation Plants; 15,256 ventilators/ BiPAP; ~7.7L Remdesivir vials, ~12L Favipiravir tablets delivered/ dispatched to States and UTs, so far DELHI, MAY 29: Government of India has been receiving international cooperation of COVID-19 relief medical supplies and equipment since 27th April […]

WHO chief concedes ‘slow’ response to Congo sex abuse claims

LONDON — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged the U.N. health agency’s response to sexual abuse allegations involving employees who worked in Congo during an Ebola outbreak was “slow,” following an Associated Press investigation that found senior WHO management knew of multiple cases of misconduct. As WHO’s highest […]

Tokyo Olympics looking more and more like fan-free event

TOKYO — The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee hinted Friday that even local fans may be barred from venues when the games open in just under two months. Fans from abroad were ruled out months ago as being too risky during a pandemic. The prospect of […]

Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West calls fraudulent

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say was marked by fraud. Assad’s government says the election on Wednesday shows […]

Badminton’s Tokyo rankings frozen, India’s Nehwal misses cut

Badminton’s Olympic rankings were frozen on Friday with the game’s governing body saying no further qualifying tournaments will take place before the Tokyo Games this year. The qualifying period officially closes on June 15 but the current Race-to-Tokyo rankings will not change, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said […]

Credit Suisse scandals prompt Switzerland to think unthinkable: punish bankers

Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable. Credit Suisse’s heavy losses from the collapse of family office Archegos and the decimation of billions of client investments backed by insolvent British financier […]

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

JK reports 2769 new positive cases, 235617 recovered so far JAMMU, MAY 27:The Government on Thursday informed that2769 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19),964from Jammu division and 1805from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir […]

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