Day: January 14, 2021

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US unemployment claims jump to 965,000 as virus takes toll

11:26 pm January 14, 2021

Washington : The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and evidence that the resurgent virus has caused a spike in layoffs. The latest figures for jobless claims, issued Thursday by the Labor Department, remain at levels never seen until the virus struck. Before the pandemic, […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

104-year-old Chowgule Group being restructured; biz to be split between siblings

11:24 pm January 14, 2021

Mumbai : The Rs 2,500-crore Chowgule Group announced a split on Thursday, with businesses being divided between siblings Vijay and Padma, the third generation of the Goa-based family. After months of dissonance where the young family members had shown discomfort at business affairs in the over-a-century-old, reticent group, the family arrived at an amicable settlement of businesses on Wednesday in […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

Trinity of education, agri, labour reforms to immensely help students, farmers, youth: PM

9:45 pm January 14, 2021

New Delhi: The ”trinity of reforms” undertaken by his government in the education, agriculture and labour sectors will immensely help students, farmers and youth of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said while asserting that reforms used to be hostage to ”political expediencies” earlier but ”political calculations matter only when a nation is aiming low”. He […]

Civil Aviation Min asked to allow uninterrupted transportation of samples for bird flu testing

9:40 pm January 14, 2021

New Delhi: Amid bird flu outbreak in 10 states, the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying on Thursday said it has asked its civil aviation counterpart to allow uninterrupted transportation of samples for expeditious testing in designated laboratories. This comes in the wake of some states banning the supply of poultry and poultry products without testing […]

Gujarat reports 570 new COVID-19 cases, 737 recoveries; 3 die

9:34 pm January 14, 2021

Ahmedabad : The coronavirus tally in Gujarat rose to 2,54,314 on Thursday with the addition of 570 new cases, the state health department said. With three more deaths, the total COVID-19 fatalities in the state increased to 4,357, it said. The number of recovered cases went up to 2,42,901 with 737 more patients getting discharged […]