India follows China's lead to widen use of coronavirus tracing app

NEW DELHI – India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, raising fears that the world’s second-most populous nation is on its way to Chinese-style methods of high tech social control. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has touted its […]

Indian Railways crosses the milestone of transporting a total of more than one million passengers

Indian Railways operate 800 “Shramik Special” trains till 14th May, 2020 across the country Passengers are being given free meals and water Trains being run by Railways only after concurrence is given both by the State which is sending the passengers and the State which is receiving them […]

PM CARES Fund Trust Allocates Rs. 3100 Crore for Fight against COVID-19

open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 13: PM CARES (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations) Fund Trust today decided to allocate Rs. 3100 Crore for fight against COVID-19. Out of Rs 3100 crore, a sum of approximately Rs.2000 crore will be earmarked for the […]

CIC to begin hearing RTI cases from UTs of J&K and Ladakh from tomorrow

Online hearing of cases will lead to “Justice from Home” concept: Dr Jitendra Singh open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 14: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today […]

Patenting of Innovative Low Cost PPE developed by Indian Navy Paves way for Rapid Mass Production

In a major step towards rapid mass production of the Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) developed by the Indian Navy, a patent has been successfully filed by the Intellectual Property Facilitation Cell (IPFC) of Min of Defence, in association with National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), an enterprise under […]

Finance Minister announce measures for relief and credit support related to businesses

Rs 3 lakh crore Emergency Working Capital Facility for Businesses, including MSMEs Rs 20,000 crore Subordinate Debt for Stressed MSMEs Rs 50,000 crore equity infusion through MSME Fund of Funds New Definition of MSME and other Measures for MSME No Global tenders for Government tenders of uptoRs 200 […]

Pakistan reports 2,000 new COVID-19 cases

Islamabad, May 13: Pakistan has reported more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases, taking the number of infections to over 34,000, while 31 more people have succumbed to the coronavirus, health officials said on Saturday, amidst the easing of lockdown restrictions. The Pakistan government announced last week that it would […]

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