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[ad_1] The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, better known as PM CARES, will allocate ₹ 3,100 crore to COVID-19 relief, including funds for ventilators, migrant workers and vaccine development, according to an official statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on May 13 evening. Explained | …

[ad_1] For an India that is largely ignorant of history, and perhaps not interested, and more in tune with mythology, Narendra Modi’s use of the phrase “aatma-nirbhar (self-sufficient) “will gain admiration and praise. They will not know that self-sufficiency was the Jawaharlal Nehru mantra and that he invoked it at …

[ad_1] “No Action, Messaging Only (NAMO),” former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh created an acronym on Wednesday to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speechh in which he announced a stimulus package of ₹ 20 lakh crore. A day after Mr. Modi’s speech, several congressional leaders turned to social media to react …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Senior congressional leader P Chidambaram mocked the prime minister’s announcement of a Rs 20 lakh crore financial package as “headline and blank page” on Wednesday, saying he was waiting for the finance minister to fill the blank page. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced new massive financial incentives …

[ad_1] Several surveys and studies that have asked investors what they are most worried about often come up with a familiar list: labor laws, land acquisition costs and bureaucratic delays. The list of laws that govern India’s workforce is itself formidably large — at least 40 central laws and more …

[ad_1] Blockade: The truck with 57 immigrants stopped after it had traveled from Mumbai to Thane. Mumbai On the Mumbai-Nashik highway in Maharashtra, a truck full of men, women and children waits and waits. In the blazing 40-degree heat, it’s been five hours. Migrants head to Uttar Pradesh, distressed by …

[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a special economic package and said that recent government decisions, RBI decisions combined with the announcement of the financial package on May 12 come to around ₹ 20-lakh-crore, almost 10% of the GDP of India. There is an unprecedented crisis, but India will not …

[ad_1] IAS officer Manivannan has been transferred without a new publication. (Photo courtesy: Twitter) The order to replace Captain Manivannan with Maheshwar Rao, another IAS officer, came Monday night and triggered online campaigns on change.org to ‘bring back’ the captain. Deepa Balakrishnan CNN-News18 Last update: May 12, 2020 9:27 AM …

[ad_1] Rising temperatures and the deaths of at least 8 migrant workers in the past 20 days have prompted the Madhya Pradesh government to lift restrictions on the MP-Maharashtra border for workers in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, authorities said . The influx of migrant workers, about 25,000 per day …

[ad_1] Thousands of migrants are on the move, trying to reach their places of origin during the Covid-19 national blockade. And they’re leaving en masse from Mumbai, one of the country’s largest Covid-19 drop-off points. Helping them in their endeavors are the Mumbai autorickshaw drivers who take migrant workers to …