Day: June 24, 2020

Lockdown extended in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan

With over 70,000 cases, Delhi surpasses Mumbai

10:59 pm June 24, 2020

New Delhi: With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi’s coronavirus tally rose to over 70,000 on Wednesday, surpassing Mumbai to become the worst hit city in the country, even as authorities prepared to conduct a house-to-house screening by July 6 as part of a revised containment strategy in the national capital. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also requested the Centre to withdraw […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

‘International trade should not be looked only in terms of volume, value’

9:07 pm June 24, 2020

New Delhi: International trade should not be looked only in terms of volume and value, but in respect to its linkages with developmental concerns and access to basic needs, research firm CUTS International said on Wednesday. It stressed on taking a closer and more holistic look at the linkages between trade and sustainable development by putting equal […]

India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook, WhatsApp with new rules

Facebook-Jio deal gets Competition Commission nod

9:03 pm June 24, 2020

New Delhi: The Competition Commission on Wednesday said it has cleared Facebook’s proposed acquisition of 9.99 per cent stake in Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries. The USD 5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore) deal — the single largest FDI in the technology sector in India — was announced in April. The US social-networking […]

2 Republicans opposed by Trump win in N. Carolina, Kentucky

8:56 pm June 24, 2020

Louisville: Voters rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on Tuesday. Calls in higher-profile races in Kentucky and New York faced days of delay as swamped officials count mountains of mail-in ballots. In western North Carolina, GOP voters picked 24-year-old investor Madison Cawthorn over Trump-backed real estate agent Lynda Bennett. The runoff was for the seat vacated by GOP […]

Priti Patel unveils campaign to counter UK's Windrush immigration scandal

UK Home Secretary under pressure to extend Indian doctors’ visas till end-2020

8:50 pm June 24, 2020

London: Britain’s leading doctors’ associations are calling on UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for an automatic fee-free extension of the short-term visas of many Indian doctors stranded in the lockdown as they await their international qualification exams in the UK. The British Medical Association (BMA) and British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) issued a joint letter to the minister on Tuesday […]