-TheWire.in None of the departments associated with India's COVID-19 vaccine development efforts received any money from the fund. New delhi: Even as the COVID-19 pandemic had its second-worst impact in India, among the world’s countries, and as its vaccine supply has suffered through many ups and downs, the PM CARES Fund, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up to deal “with any kind of emergency or distress situation,” failed to allocate the...
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Make A Model Scheme To Fight Hunger: Supreme Court To Centre -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com The Supreme Court directed the centre to formulate a national model scheme for community kitchens, in consultation with states and other stakeholders New delhi: The Supreme Court has told the centre to give latest data on the number of people who died due to starvation in the country and frame a national model scheme to combat hunger. During a hearing today, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana...
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-NDTV.com The delhi Government's One delhi app can be used to book tickets for all buses, including e-buses, in less than a minute, while electric bus charging points will soon be installed in every bus depot in the city. New delhi: delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, as he flagged off delhi Transport Corporation (DTC)'s first electric bus on Monday, has promised that a fleet of 300 e-buses will be operational by April,...
More »Wealth of India's 10 richest enough to fund school, higher education of every child for 25 years: Study
-The New Indian Express Oxfam India further said that an additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders. NEW delhi/ DAVOS: Indian billionaires saw their combined fortunes more than double during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their count shot up by 39 per cent to 142, while the wealth of the ten richest is enough to fund school and...
More »No justification in closing schools over Covid: World Bank expert
-PTI/ The Tribune The report says no evidence that reopening schools has caused a surge in Covid cases and that schools are not a “safe place” New delhi: There is no justification now for keeping schools closed in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and even if there are new waves, closing schools should be the last resort, according to World Bank’s Global Education Director Jaime Saavedra. Saavedra, whose team has been tracking the...
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