Coronavirus pandemic US President Donald Trump has signed into law a coronavirus relief and spending package bill, averting a partial government shutdown. Mr Trump had initially refused to sign the bill, saying he wanted to give people bigger one-off payments. The delay meant that millions of Americans temporarily lost unemployment benefits. The relief package worth […]
A bench headed by justice Sanjay K Kaul held that there is no prohibition against recovering dues including penal rent — the rent with penalty for overstaying in official accommodation — from an employee’s gratuity. Utkarsh Anand Hindustan Times, New Delhi The gratuity money of an employee can be withheld and forfeited for recovery of dues […]
Wants RBI to give performance details over the past five years Topics Comptroller and Auditor General of India | Reserve Bank of India | PSU bank recapitalisation Raghu Mohan The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), seeking details of the performance of state-run banks after their recapitalisation (recap) over […]
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the first such exercise […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Minister dissolved parliament a week ago. China has poured millions of dollars into Nepal in recent years in the form […]
By Isla Binnie, Giselda Vagnoni MADRID/ROME (Reuters) -Europe launched a mass COVID-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide. “Thank God,” 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first person in […]
By Reuters Staff MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s president Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday. “He said he will be vaccinated, he made this decision and was waiting until all formalities are completed,” the spokesman was quoted as saying […]
By Reuters Staff BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has tightened COVID-19 curbs over concerns that China’s mass travel during the holiday period could cause cases to spike in the capital, as it reported locally transmitted cases for a fourth straight day on Sunday. A meeting led by the capital’s Communist party boss, Cai Qi, urged all […]
A film-making duo has produced a music video to highlight protests in India against changes to the farming laws. Gurpreet Singh, 20, from Bristol, has covered a song from the Bollywood film Kesari, directed by Ewan French. “The government has passed a new bill in the Punjab. When farmers sell their food to companies, the companies […]
Three UN peacekeepers have been killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) as tensions flare between government and rebel forces. The UN said unidentified combatants carried out two attacks, leaving two other peacekeepers injured. The group were stationed in CAR to quell violence ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Faustin Archange Touadéra […]
