70-year-old low profile, soft spoken and ever smiling Kerala Labour Minister T.P. Ramakrishnan is a man of few words but full of action as he ensured that migrant labourers in Kerala got all the basic comforts when COVID-19 struck hard. ...
It was a tough trail for a 9-month pregnant woman who walked 196 kilometres on foot, from Ahmedabad with her husband, son (1-year-old) and daughter (2-year-old) for 6 days to reach her native place in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam. ...
The Union Health Ministry Wednesday said the Nanded Hazur Sahib returnees in Punjab constituted the bulk of cases with 1,225 positive among the total of 4,216 while the doubling time for new cases has improved to 12.6 in the last three days in the country....
The Kerala cabinet meeting held here on Wednesday decided to hike the tax rates on liquor, beer and wine ranging from 10 to 35 per cent....
Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac has termed the economic package announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday as disappointing....
After Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures for MSME sector, Discoms, contractors and EPF, the Congress said the focus of the economic package is "debt creation" and not "demand creation"....
In a major relief for the real estate developers, the Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Affairs will issue advisory to states and union territories to declare the Covid-19 situation as a 'force majeure' under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act....
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced 15 measures to revive and support business under the mega stimulus package -- Self-Reliant India Movement -- which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last evening....
erala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday that the state has reported 10 more Covid-19 positive cases, taking the total number of people presently under treatment to 41....
Some 50 days ago, Narendra Modi announced a national lockdown from 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. Around the same time, Donald Trump's White House announced social distancing guidelines. Seen purely through the public communications lens, the world's two largest democracies are a stunning contrast....
