Mumbai: The Indian economy will contract 9% in 2020-21 as coronavirus infections are still at their peak and the government is not providing adequate direct fiscal support, the Crisil rating agency said Thursday. In May, Crisil had estimated that the economy would contract 5%. The latest projection comes days after …
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Admission IIT JAM 2021: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore will start on Thursday the online application process for the IIT – Joint Admission Test for Masters (IIT-JAM) 2021. The IIT-JAM 2021 will be held on February 14, 2021 and the results will come out on March 20, 2021. …
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The Congress party launched an online campaign on Thursday to attack the government for handling the Covid-19 situation. The central theme of the party’s campaign is unemployment; It has alleged that job losses increased due to the government’s mishandling of the pandemic. A host of Congressional leaders, including former party …
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At a bilateral meeting on Thursday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers Meeting in Moscow, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar is expected to clearly say to his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, that peace at the borders is closely related to the development of bilateral ties between …
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India has been consistently reporting around 1,000 deaths from coronavirus disease (Covid-19) a day since early September and the cumulative number of deaths in the country due to the viral infection surpassed the 75,000 mark on Wednesday. According to data from the HT panel, 75,055 Covid-19 patients have died as …
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It’s possible that a deadly swine disease has just entered Germany, which if confirmed could scare off international buyers and devastate the exports of Europe’s largest pig-producing nation. A suspected case of African swine fever has been identified in the eastern state of Brandenburg, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday, …
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MU Exams of October 1, question the MCQ banks to be given | Photo credit: iStock Images The University of Mumbai senior exams will start from October 1, 2020. A circular published by the university team reported that the exams would continue until October 17 and would be taken online …
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LONDON: AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot on Wednesday expressed his hopes that a vaccine against the novel coronavirus developed by the pharmaceutical company will be ready by the end of 2020 or early 2021, despite having to pause clinical trials. Earlier this week, the Swedish-British company froze the trials after discovering …
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court accepted the statement of activist lawyer on Thursday Prashant Bhushan to seek help from the Attorney General KK Venugopal in a 2009 contempt case against the defender and journalist Tarun Tejpal. In November 2009, the high court had issued notices of contempt of Bhushan and …
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File photo of the Supreme Court of India. (Image credit: PTI) The Reserve Bank of India had submitted the notification in March after the nationwide lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic and had granted the deferred payment facility of installments to borrowers and the plan finalized …
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