2020 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the World Food Program

The World Food Program received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Program on Friday for feeding millions of people from Yemen to North Korea, and the coronavirus pandemic pushed millions more into hunger. WFP was honored for “its efforts to …

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Lalu Yadav will not campaign in Bihar state polls

Lalu Yadav has been in jail since January 2018. (File photo) Patna: RJD chief Lalu Yadav will not campaign for state elections in Bihar for the first time in more than four decades. The former chief minister, jailed for corruption since 2018, had handed over charges to his son Tejashwi …

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Pakistan spy arrested | HAL Employee Arrested for Spying for Pakistan; was providing information to ISI about Indian fighter jets

Representative image Mumbai: Nashik, an employee of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), has been arrested by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on charges of spying for Pakistan. The HAL employee was arrested by the Nashik unit of the Maharashtra ATS for supplying secret information to Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Interservice Intelligence. …

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RBI will conduct open market operations for state government bonds

Supporting superior state loans Since this is the first time the RBI has purchased state government bonds, the modalities should be resolved. Saugata Bhattacharya, chief economist at Axis Bank, said no statutory changes will be necessary to allow the central bank to buy government bonds. However, the central bank would …

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