Budget 2020: More funds allotted to fight climate crisis

During her budget speech in Parliament on Saturday, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the country’s commitments will be executed in various sectors “by the departments/ministries concerned through the normal budgeting process”.

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324 evacuated from Wuhan taken to 2 quarantine centres

After an initial screening for symptoms at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the Capital, all of the evacuees, most of whom are students, were taken to the two quarantine facilities set up by the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Delhi and neighbouring Manesar, Haryana.

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Panel probing Bhima Koregaon violence given 2-month extension

The commission, comprising former Calcutta high court chief justice JN Patel and IAS officer Sumit Mullick, had written to the government saying it was facing a funds crunch.

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Google celebrates Scottish writer Mary Somerville's legacy with a doodle

One of Mary Somerville’s experimental physics papers was read by the Royal Society of London, the UK’s National Science Academy on this day in 1826.

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Punjab Police Registers Case Against Singers For 'Propagating Violence'

The Punjab Police on Saturday said it has registered a case against Punjabi singers Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, aka Sidhu Moose Wala, and Mankirat Aulakh for allegedly promoting violence and gun culture in...

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Rs 61,500 Crore Allocated To MGNREGA Funds In Budget 2020

Allocations in the Union Budget for various flagship schemes under the Department of Rural Development was marginally reduced to Rs 1.20 lakh crore for the year 2020-21 from Rs 1.22 lakh crore in...

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Nation-Wide Strike Impacts Banking Services At PSU Banks

Services of public sector banks were impacted on Saturday as nation-wide strike by employee unions entered its second day.

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