The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday said salaries of its employees will neither be deferred nor cut amid the coronavirus lockdown and its impact on revenues.
A head constable with Government Railway Police (GRP) has been tested positive for COVID-19 in Delhi. He has been shifted to Kasturba Hospital in Delhi and is under observation.
The doctor, who worked at Delhi State Cancer Hospital was tested positive after his brother had returned from the United Kingdom. Earlier, two mohalla clinic doctors were also tested positive for coronavirus and their patients are being traced.
In line with the Budget announcement, the Reserve Bank on Monday opened certain specified categories of government securities (g-secs) for non-resident investors as part of an initiative to deepen the bond market.
The Centre on Wednesday decided to allow its employees who were due to vacate their official flats to stay May 31, officials said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said it has preponed the second tranche of purchase of Rs 15,000 crore of government securities under open market operations (OMOs) to March 26.
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday announced it would undertake additional purchase of government securities worth Rs 30,000 crore through open market operations (OMO) in a bid to increase liquidity and enhance confidence in the financial markets that remain under stress over COVID-19 related dislocations.
Two girls died after being hit by a truck in a village here while they were heading to school on Wednesday, which was open despite government orders to shut all educational institutes in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The services have been issued by the Bureau of Immigration, under the Union Home Ministry, and will be available round the clock.
Amid the political turmoil in Madhya Pradesh government, according to reports on Wednesday cracks may arise in Gujarat's Congress unit.
The government has directed the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to prepare quarantine facilities with a bed capacity to admit over 5,400 people to deal with cases of coronavirus across the country, officials said on Monday.
Doda District Development Commissioner, Sagar D Doifode visited Government Medical College and Hospital on March 04.
The government has detached gas utility GAIL India, explorer Oil India and other PSUs from a Supreme Court order that had led to Rs 1.47 lakh crore being sought from telecom firms such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea in past dues, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Chaudhary on Tuesday expressed confidence of achieving the target of doubling farmers income by 2022.
The government has collected over Rs 7.52 lakh crore as direct taxes till January 31 of the current fiscal, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. The Revised Estimate (RE) has pegged the target for collection of direct taxes for the current fiscal, which ends on March 31, at Rs 11.70 lakh crore.
The government will allow export of onions from March 15 in the interest of farmers, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.
The Kerala police have registered a case after a poster stating "India is not my country", was pasted on the walls of the Government Brennen college, Thalassery and the Government ITI college in Malampuzha, Palakkad. The poster was put up in the name of Students' Federation of India (SFI).
A field forest team, led by forest inspector Ajmer Yadav, visited the spot and took photographs of pugmarks. PTR deputy director Naveen Khandelwal said that from the pug marks, it was evident that the leopard was an adult.
The government on Wednesday decided to lift the nearly six-month-old ban on export of onions in a bid to protect the interests of farmers as prices are likely to fall sharply due to bumper rabi crop.
Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday launched a portal that will forecast wholesale prices of three key vegetables - tomato, onion and potato - for three months and alert the government to take timely intervention in case of price crash due to glut.
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