Apprehensions about living in a lonely, biosecure environment with news from colleagues testing positive for Covid-19, combined with personal tragedy, are understood to be the reasons why Suresh Raina left Chennai Super Kings camp and headed for home from IPL 2020. It emerged on Saturday morning, the day after an …
Read More »Isa Guha: ‘There is a girl or a boy who will see me on television and feel that they can do something similar’
Having taken on the role of main presenter for the BBC’s return to televised cricket coverage this summer, Isa Guha has spent most of the past two months in biosecurity settings, helping bring closed-door internationals from England to those who are still at home on TV and radio. Ahead of …
Read More »CSK’s Suresh Raina to miss the entire IPL for personal reasons
Suresh Raina of Chennai Super Kings will miss the entire IPL for personal reasons. He has returned to India from the United Arab Emirates. “Suresh Raina has returned to India for personal reasons and will not be available for the remainder of the IPL season. Chennai Super Kings offers full …
Read More »Not even a penny for farmers in the Center’s economic package; PM, FM must apologize: Congress | India News
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday accused the government of being “insensitive” to farmers and demanded that the prime minister and finance minister apologize for neglecting them in the COVID-19 economic package. Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said the so-called 20-lakh rupee rupee package to offset the economic consequences of …
Read More »India stimulus package: government tries to ease cash crisis and help small businesses restart | India Business News
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: One day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a stimulus of Rs 20 lakh crore, the government released on Wednesday more than Rs 5.5 lakh crore package as the first installment of the “atmanirbhar (self-sufficient) campaign” with a focus on MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises), seen …
Read More »Nirmala Sitharaman relies on banks and institutions to finance the package
[ad_1] Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (file photo) NEW DELHI: the first package in the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan presented by FM Nirmala Sitharaman On Wednesday it seems to have leaned more on banks and public sector institutions (PSB), and the budget outflow seems to be minimal. While the Rs 3-lakh-crore auto …
Read More »Covid-19: what you need to know today
[ad_1] Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the first part of the economic package that India has been waiting for since the end of March, when a blockade was imposed to combat the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. While some economic activity has resumed in the country, especially since May …
Read More »Center’s Covid-19 economic package has nothing for poor, hungry migrant workers: Chidambaram | India News
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the Center’s COVID-19 economic stimulus package had nothing for lakhs of poor and hungry migrant workers who have been walking to their homes, and expressed disappointment with the finance minister’s announcements. Addressing a press conference through video conferencing, Chidambaram …
Read More »4.5 million small businesses to obtain credit secured loans
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced credit guarantee loans for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which are expected to help some 4.5 million units return to business. Announcing the details of the ₹Sitharaman said the 20 trillion fiscal stimulus package said that unsecured automatic loans …
Read More »Mamata Banerjee: the Center’s economic package is a ‘big zero’, it has nothing for the states | India News
[ad_1] KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the Union government on Wednesday, alleging that the special economic package announced by him is of no help to the states and is “a big zero”. Banerjee alleged that the central government was “deceiving the people” during the COVID-19 crisis. “The …
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