April 2021

New Delhi, April 19 : Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was admitted to the AIIMS for treatment after testing Covid positive on Monday. He has been admitted to the Trauma Centre, said sources.                     Wishes came in as the…

Kolkata, April 19  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the people coming from outside for election purposes responsible for the rapid spread of Covid-19 in the state. Asking the people not to panic, the chief minister said that the…

Mumbai (Maharashtra) , April 19 (ANI): Train passengers from Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan, Delhi-NCR, Gujarat and Uttarakhand will now be required to produce a negative RT-PCR test report taken at most 48 hours before travelling to…

NEW DELHI: Industry body FICCI has written to Chief Ministers of 25 states urging them to avoid imposing partial or total lockdown in the wake of fresh surge in COVID cases. The industry body also argued that the economy has barely begun to…

NEW DELHI: Given the rise in COVID-19 cases, the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank employee unions, has requested the Union Finance Ministry to reduce the mandated working hours for the banking sector.…

MUMBAI: India's foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 4.344 billion during the week ended April 9. According to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) weekly statistical supplement, the reserves increased to USD 581.213 billion from USD 576.869…

NEW DELHI: As the healthcare system is nearing collapse in Delhi, with the city registering the biggest jump in daily Covid-19 cases, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday shot off letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union…

Kabul , April 19  The announcement of the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan will require that Pakistan make a decision on its Afghan policy -- whether to opt for cooperation or enmity with its neighbour, Afghanistan…

Gangtok, Apr 17 ( UNI) South Korean delegation consisting of 6 members called on Chief Minister PS Tamang and Minister for Commerce & Industries Bedu Singh Panth. They also met Chief Secretary SC Gupta. Representative of KORA an…

Moscow, Apr 19 (Sputnik) Russia's only current female cosmonaut Anna Kikina will head to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022, a space industry source told Sputnik. "General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin has ordered the…

Rome, Apr 13 (Sputnik) Several people sustained injuries during clashes between police officers and demonstrators protesting against the construction of a new parking lot and the Turin-Lyon railway in Italy's northern region of Piedmont,…

Business Wire India: Our world represents but one tiny pale blue dot in a sea of darkness, the only bastion of life in the ocean of the night we know of, and yet there seem to be billions of billions of stars and planets, what are the…

New Delhi, Apr 18 (UNI) Railways will run trains--Oxygen Express-- ferrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) tankers across from the country as several States have requested for it owing to shortage of medical oxygen due to sporadic rise in…

Panaji, Apr 18 (UNI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said that the state has received 1.5 lakh doses of Covid 19 vaccines and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his continued support in the fight against Covid 19. In a…

New Delhi, Apr 18 (UNI) Former prime minister and veteran Congress leader Dr Manmohan Singh on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting him to ramp up the vaccination drive to battle the ongoing second wave of…