Day: March 12, 2020

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Medical check-up allowance for Maharashtra cops to be raised

4:08 pm March 12, 2020

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday said allowance for medical check-ups of police personnel will be increased from Rs 500 per year to Rs 2,500. The minister made the announcement while replying to a calling attention raised by Shiv Sena MLC Vilas Potnis on issues related to the police department. “The state government […]

Only one technical bid received out of 4 coal mines put up for re-auction

Parliament passes law to open coal sector for commercial mining

4:05 pm March 12, 2020

New Delhi: Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that will remove end-use restrictions for participating in coal mine auctions and open up the coal sector fully for commercial mining for all domestic and global companies. The Mineral laws (Amendment) Bill was passed in Rajya Sabha with 83 MPs voting in its favour and 12 against. […]

Maharashtra: Man acquitted of abducting, killing 3-year-old

4:03 pm March 12, 2020

Thane: A district court here acquitted a 25-year-old man who was accused of kidnapping and brutally killing a three-year-old boy in Maharashtra’s Thane district. In his order dated March 3, district judge H M Patwardhan held that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges of kidnap and murder against Badal Sarkar and acquitted him. […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Stocks, crude hammered as Trump Europe ban fans recession fears

3:51 pm March 12, 2020

Hong Kong: Equities and oil prices fell through the floor again on Thursday after Donald Trump banned all travel from Europe to the US for a month to fight the coronavirus, ramping up fears the global economy will careen into recession. As the disease showed no signs of abating, claiming more lives and infecting more […]

Coronavirus cases to single-digit in Wuhan, China reports rise in ‘imported cases’

3:47 pm March 12, 2020

Beijing: The coronavirus cases continue to drop sharply in China which has reported 11 new fatalities, taking the death toll to 3,169, while in the worst-hit Wuhan, the confirmed cases for the first time dropped to single digit with eight new infections, amid a surge in “imported COVID-19 cases” in the country. China’s National Health […]