Month: September 2021

Explainer: How Indian farmers’ protest turned into a country-wide movement

NEW DELHI, Sept 9 – A group of influential farmer leaders ratcheted up pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to roll back three new farm laws by organising a mammoth rally in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh last week. After the successful mass meeting – the […]

Factbox: Five facts about Japan prime minister hopeful Taro Kono

TOKYO, Sept 10 – Japan’s popular minister of administrative affairs, Taro Kono, on Friday formally announced his candidacy to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and become the next prime minister. Kono, also charged with Japan’s vaccine roll-out, is the third candidate to throw his hat into the ring […]

1,000 mm and counting – delayed monsoon yields highest rainfall in Delhi in 11 years

New Delhi, Sep 10: The southwest monsoon in Delhi may have been erratic and one of the most delayed this season, but it has given the highest rainfall to the national capital in 11 years — 1,005.3 mm so far. This is the first time since 2010 that […]

PM Modi came to power by making false promises: Dotasra

Jaipur, Sep 10:  Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, saying he came to power by making false promises. Speaking at an event held to mark 50 years of the victory of the Indian Army during Bangladesh’s war for independence, Dotasra stressed […]

BULLETIN ON COVID-19

Posted On: 10 SEP 2021, Delhi 72.37 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive34,973 new cases in the last 24 hoursActive cases account for 1.18% of total casesIndia’s Active caseload stands at 3,90,646Recovery Rate currently at 97.49%37,681 recoveries in the last 24 hours […]

CBDT issues clarification regarding carry forward of losses in case of change in shareholding due to strategic disinvestment

DELHI, SEPTEMBER 10: Finance Act, 2021 has amended section 72A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) to inter alia provide that in case of an amalgamation of a public sector company (PSU) which ceases to be a PSU (erstwhile public sector company), as part of strategic disinvestment, with one […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, SEPTEMBER 10: 72.37 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive 34,973 new cases in the last 24 hours Active cases account for 1.18% of total cases India’s Active caseload stands at 3,90,646 Recovery Rate currently at 97.49% 37,681 recoveries in the last […]

Dozens of Westerners to fly from Kabul on commercial flight

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities will allow between 100 and 150 Westerners, including Americans, to fly out from Kabul in the coming hours, Qatari officials said Thursday, marking the airport’s first such flight since U.S. forces withdrew from the country. The large group of foreigners would depart […]

Analysis: Taliban hard-line path worsens Afghanistan dilemma

KABUL, Afghanistan — Reminiscent of their previous harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban have already begun to wipe out some of Afghanistan’s gains of 20 years. They’ve denied women a seat at the Cabinet, beaten journalists into silence and enforced their severe interpretation of Islam, on occasion […]

N. Korea, slimmed down Kim Jong Un, enjoy toned-down parade

SEOUL, South Korea — Military search dogs and goose-stepping trainers. Health workers wearing gas masks and red hazmat suits. And a slimmed down, beaming Kim Jong Un in a cream-colored business suit. The parade marking North Korea’s celebration of its 73rd anniversary was a marked departure from past […]

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