Tax benefits offered to individuals, corporates under PM-CARES Fund New Delhi: In order to fight the Coronavirus outbreak in India, the PM CARES, or the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, has been set up as a public charitable trust. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the chairman of this trust and its…

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Announces Rs. 1 Crore For Families Of Health Personnel NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal declares Rs. 1 crore for families of health personnel if they lose their lives while handling COVID-19 cases. “If anyone loses their life while serving coronavirus patients, whether sanitation workers, doctors or nurses, their family will be provided Rs…

Amit Shah reworks Kashmir’s domicile law, includes residents for 15 yrs Nearly eight months after the Centre scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, the government has redefined domicile rules for the union territory and ordered that only people who fulfill this criteria are eligible to be appointed to junior posts in the bureaucracy and the…

Coronavirus lockdown: Top banks announce 3-month EMI moratorium for customers In a big relief to customers amid coronavirus crisis, country’s major private sector banks have activated loan repayment moratorium option. This is in accordance with the Reserve Bank (RBI) order wherein it had directed all financial institutions, including banks and housing finance companies, to give…

Govt may further extend deadline to bid for Air India due to COVID-19 In 2018, the government had offered to sell its 76 per cent stake in the Air India airline. In what would be the second extension in the deadline to submit bids for Air India, the government is likely to extend the April…

Government slashes interest rates on PPF, NSC, SCSS, other Post Office Schemes amid coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak New Delhi: The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, on Tuesday (March 31) announced an interest rate cuts on small savings schemes for the first quarter (April to June) of Financial Year 2020-21. Interest rates have been reduced on…

US coronavirus death toll surpasses 4,000, cases stand at 1,90,000 The coronavirus deaths crossed 4,000 in the US on Wednesday, a number higher than the ghastly 9/11 terror attacks in the country, even as the top health experts projected that the pandemic could kill between 1,00,000 and 2,00,000 Americans. According to the Johns Hopkins University…

In India’s fight against coronavirus, one arm failed miserably – Parliament India’s preparedness to deal with the coronavirus pandemic can be judged by many indicators. One of them is the seriousness with which Indian Parliament discussed it. As last as 20 March, the AYUSH Ministry was responding to queries in Parliament and also advocating Ayurveda,…

WHO Releases Guidelines To Help Countries Maintain Essential Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is straining health systems worldwide. The rapidly increasing demand on health facilities and health care workers threatens to leave some health systems overstretched and unable to operate effectively, the World Health Organisation said. Previous outbreaks have demonstrated that when…

UN announces COVID-19 emergency response for in North-East Nigeria The United Nations in Nigeria on Tuesday declared it is taking emergency preparedness and response measures to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus to the most vulnerable crisis-affected people in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. These measures also address immediate humanitarian consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic should…

Bill Gates predicts end of COVID 19 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called for a complete lockdown in the United States due to the rising cases … Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called for a complete lockdown in the United States due to the rising cases of COVID-19. In a video interview with CNN, Bill…

Coronavirus update – Donald Trump warns US headed for ‘very, very painful two weeks President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned of a ‘very painful’ two weeks as the United States wrestles with a coronavirus surge that the White House warns could kill as many as 240,000 Americans. ‘This is going to be a very painful,…

Delhi, MP, Assam, Telangana & more – Nizamuddin religious event leads to nationwide hunt for COVID-19 suspects New Delhi: The authorities, on Tuesday,launched a nationwide search for participants of a huge religious gathering that was held in the Nizamuddin area of the national capital earlier in March. Nizamuddin became the new hotspot for the fast-spreading virus…