Day: February 22, 2021

India committed to enhancing capabilities in defence manufacturing: PM

11:33 pm February 22, 2021

New Delhi: India is working hard to enhance its capabilities and capacities in the defence-manufacturing sector at a fast pace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday as he urged the private sector to come forward for designing and manufacturing defence equipment. The prime minister also noted that there were hundreds of ordnance factories before independence with […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

UN to rich nations: Don’t undermine COVAX vaccine program

11:18 pm February 22, 2021

Berlin: The head of the World Health Organization pleaded with rich countries on Monday to check before ordering additional COVID-19 vaccine shots for themselves whether that undermines efforts to get vaccine shots to poorer nations. Wealthy nations have snapped up several billion vaccine doses while some countries in the developing world have little or none. European nations have given […]

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

Bihar govt presents Rs 2.18 lakh crore budget for FY22 in

11:09 pm February 22, 2021

Patna: The Bihar government on Monday presented a Rs 2.18 lakh crore budget for the 2021-22 fiscal in the Assembly, with no new tax and a thrust on infrastructure and social sectors. Presenting the revenue-surplus budget in the House, Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad, who holds the finance portfolio, proposed to introduce a separate department for skill development and entrepreneurship. […]

UP govt announces Rs 2000 cr for airstrip expansion at Noida, building electronic city near airport

11:02 pm February 22, 2021

Noida : The Uttar Pradesh government’s 2021-22 budget presented on Monday made a provision of Rs 2,000 crore for the upcoming Noida International Airport and also announced establishing an ‘electronic city’ near the airport. A decision has been made to increase the number of airstrips at the airport from two to six and Rs 2,000 crore has […]

Angry youths rattle Spain in support of jailed rap artist

10:35 pm February 22, 2021

Barcelona: The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage this week in the southern European country. The arrest of Pablo Hasél has brought thousands to the streets for different reasons. Under the banner of freedom of expression, many Spaniards strongly object to putting an artist behind […]