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Darbhanga Bagmati express collides with a stationary goods train near Chennai ,19 injured
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Pre-Covid level normalcy to return next year, touch 4 lakh passengers a day: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri
“When the second wave came and this passenger traffic came down to 40,000 last week. On Thursday it increased to 80,000 and later it will continue to increase with the decline in COVID cases,” said the Union Minister.
Financial inclusion a top priority for govt, says Union Minister Thakur
Noting that financial inclusion is one of the top-most policy priorities for the government, Thakur said promoting and deepening financial education would play a very important part in our endeavour to realise our collective potential.
India orders 300 mln COVID-19 shots before approval as court asks for vaccine ‘roadmap’
So far, about 4.7% of the country’s 950 million adult population have been given both doses. The government said this week supplies are improving and it could have as many as 10 million doses each day in July and August, up from just under three million now.
Retired babus taking up private sector jobs soon after retirement is serious misconduct: CVC
In an order, it also said that all government organisations should mandatorily take vigilance clearance before offering post-retirement jobs to babus.
In case a retired officer served in more than one organisation, the vigilance clearance should be obtained from all organisations where the retired officer had served during a period of 10 years prior to his retirement, it said mentioning the procedure.
Niti Aayog submits names of PSU banks to be privatised to Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment
Industry sources say the likely names are Mumbai based Central Bank and Pune based Bank of Maharashtra.
Following the clearance from the Core Group of Secretaries, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, the finalised names will go to Alternative Mechanism (AM) for its approval and eventually to the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister for the final nod.
Changes on the regulatory side to facilitate privatisation would start after the Cabinet approval.
LIC’s mega IPO may hit the street in March
Though,the lagislative changes in the LIC Act 1956, to facilitate the LIC IPO, are already in place, the government appointed actuary Milliman is yet to finalise the embedded value of the corporation.
Maha: Over Rs 348 cr paid to cyclone Nisarga-hit in Raigad
Over two lakh houses were damaged in the cyclone last year for which a compensation of more than Rs 226 crore was paid, it said.
624 doctors died due to COVID-19 in second wave: IMA
”Last year, 748 doctors across India succumbed to COVID-19, while in the current second wave in a short period we have lost 624 doctors,” a doctor associated with the IMA said.
Economy hit by COVID-19 second wave to start recovering from July, says Chief Economic Advisor
Commenting on the stock market situation in the country, he said that the stock market is at a record high as investors believe that the Indian economy will do well.
The CEA said that the prediction of good economic growth and investment by developed nations in the Indian stock market has led the market to a record high.
India’s biggest torn between BlackRock and funding coal
State Bank of India hasn’t decided whether to help finance the Carmichael mine for Adani Enterprises Ltd, whose main shareholder is Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, following mounting pressure from climate activists and investors, Bloomberg reported in April.
Funding for global energy is at a tipping point. Green bonds and loans from the global banking sector so far this year exceeded the value of fossil financing for the first time since the clinching of the Paris Agreement at the very end of 2015.