By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India has appealed to the country’s top court to let banks classify loans as nonperforming, saying a ban imposed to help borrowers in the COVID-19 pandemic could greatly harm the nation’s financial system. The central bank, in a filing to the Supreme Court late on Friday, […]
The statement puts a spotlight again on the government’s approach to the pandemic in India. By Rohini Chatterji The Narendra Modi government’s Ministry of AYUSH has been issuing different protocols regarding Covid-19 in the past few months and much of it has to do with Ayurveda and Unani. Now, after health minister Harsh Vardhan released a list of protocols on “prevention […]
The staff at Hindu Rao Hospital threatened to stop working from Saturday unless they were paid salaries for last three months. By Akshita Jain Healthcare workers at Delhi’s Hindu Rao Hospital, a Covid dedicated hospital, on Friday continued their protest over non-payment of salaries and threatened to stop working unless they are paid salaries for last three […]
News Room His son Chirag Paswan tweeted the news on Thursday night. Union consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan died on Thursday at a Delhi hospital at the age of 74. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader had been ill for some time and had recently undergone heart surgery. His son Chirag Paswan tweeted the […]
By Rohini Chatterji While BJP workers were seen trying to break police barricades in West Bengal’s Howrah, the police stopped the march with water canons and tear gas. The West Bengal police on Thursday used water canons, tear gas and lathicharged BJP workers Howrah’s Santragachi during the ‘Nabanno Chalo’ march to the state secretariat. Police sources told PTI that […]
By Meryl Sebastian NBSA said Aaj Tak, Zee News and News 24 had violated guidelines on reportage and directed the channels to air an apology. National Broadcasting Standard Authority on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the television channel Aaj Tak for telecasting fake tweets related to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. NBSA […]
By Danish Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Workers were clearing undergrowth from wasteland on Tuesday to add 400 graves to the Indian capital’s oldest functioning cemetery beside the ruins of historic city walls, as the death toll from the coronavirus grows. With more than 100,000 deaths nationwide, India’s tally of infections has crossed 6.6 million, […]
A team of scientists in India has developed an inexpensive paper-based test for coronavirus that could give fast results similar to a pregnancy test. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas and Krutika Pathi unpack how it works. The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on a gene-editing technology called Crispr. Scientists estimate that […]
BJP leader and former MLA Rajveer Singh Pahalwan held a mahapanchayat of upper caste men at his residence in Hathras. By Meryl Sebastian Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Sunday walked to meet the Hathras family after being stopped near Aligarh on his way to meet them, NDTV reported. Meanwhile, BJP leader and former MLA Rajveer Singh Pahalwan held […]
It was questioned if a brutal crime committed by upper caste Thakurs was even a ‘caste crime’ in the first place. By Riya Singh The recent gang-rape case of a 19 year old Dalit girl from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh had made it to the headlines of the popular newspapers and has also occupied the space […]
