Union Expenditure Secretary T V Somanathan also said 40 per cent of the cash transferred by the government to stimulate the economy earlier has not been spent by the beneficiaries, which reflects people's desire to save due to the uncertainties.
Democrats on Tuesday criticized the tone of the Republican convention, saying Trump was to blame for the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 177,000 Americans - more than any other country in the world - and thrown millions out of work.
According to sources, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev has approached the office of Principal Scientific Advisor K VijayRaghavan as well as secretaries of the departments of biotechnology and health research in this regard.
His death spurred a major crisis in Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province by size.
The trial may begin from Wednesday, said a top official of the institute, one of the 17 sites selected for the phase 2 human trials in the country by Serum Institute of India (SII).
As many as 32 accused persons including BJP stalwarts LK Advani, Kalyan Singh, and Uma Bharti are facing the trial in the case pertaining to the demolition of the 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya in December 1992.
The work on reopening an alternative road to Ladakh from Himachal Pradesh has been expedited as it is a strategically key road, said an official on condition of anonimity, adding the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
She wrote to Modi after the state government received a letter from the National Testing Agency on Tuesday to conduct the JEE/NEET examinations starting from September 1, 2020.
Indian Railways has generated more than 6,40,000 mandays of work under Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan in six states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh while executing around 165 Railway infrastructure projects in these states, according to Ministry of Railways statement.
The DCW said that they are in the process of filing an FIR in the case.
A five-year-old boy was rescued on Tuesday (August 25) from the debris almost 19 hours after a five-storey building collapsed in Raigad district of Maharashtra, police said.
The woman police officer of sub-inspector rank alleged that she was raped repeatedly by the 28-year-old constable who promised her marriage.
In the investigations under PMLA, the security agencies found that Hizbul Mujahideen was funding terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Syed Salahuddin, the self-styled commander, based in Rawalpindi Pakistan, was providing support for the transfer of funds.
The cases, in Belgium and the Netherlands, follow a report this week by researchers in Hong Kong about a man there who had been re-infected with a different strain of the virus four and a half months after being declared recovered - the first such re-infection to be documented.
Sitharaman said that every policy which was introduced had a structural component.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said headline inflation picked up strongly during the closing months of 2019-20 and the short-term outlook for food inflation has turned uncertain.
RBI said the model envisages two scenarios -- the first, i.E., lockdown I, impacts the supply side of the economy by decreasing the labour supply and its productivity.
Unidentified miscreants opened fire outside a restaurant in Shalimar area of the national capital on Monday (August 24) evening. The incident was captured on the CCTV.
A fire broke out on Tuesday inside the ICU ward of a government hospital in Jamnagar district of Gujarat. All patients have been evacuated from the ICU of the Guru Gobind Singh Government Hospital.
The BSE index ended 44.80 points or 0.12 per cent higher at 38,843.88 while the NSE Nifty closed 5.80 points or 0.05 per cent higher at 11,472.25.
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram will reopen for devotees from August 26.
In the previous trade, gold had closed at Rs 52,907 per 10 gram.
This new partnership is an example of airlines expanding ancillary offerings as a way to offset revenue losses experienced in 2020.
Mumbai's iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus station will be re-developed and renovated soon and the Indian Railways has invited bids for eligible funding agencies in this regard.
The securities for the second tranche auction on September 03, 2020 will be announced separately.