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Centre working to ensure tap water connection for every household by 2024: Shekhawat

Sep 12, 2021

Five crore tap water connections have been provided to households across states since the mission commenced in December 2019. The figure will soon cross 8 crores, he said.

As many as 1,10,000 villages have achieved 100 percent success in providing tap connections to households, Shekhawat said.

India, US agree to collaborate on emerging fuels

Sep 11, 2021

”Minister Puri emphasized that the revamped clean energy partnership will intensify the efforts from both sides to take advantage of the complementarities that exist between the US and India – advanced US technologies and rapidly growing India’s energy market, for a win-win situation through a cleaner energy route with low carbon pathways,” said a statement from the oil ministry

Medicine delivery by drones to be piloted in 16 zones in Telangana: Scindia

Sep 11, 2021

Launching Medicines from the Sky’ project here, Scindia said the new Drone Policy brought out by the NDA government at the Centre recently eased rules regarding drone operations in the country by reducing the number of forms that need to be filled to operate them from 25 to 5 and decreasing the types of fee charged from the operator from 72 to 4. Under the Green zone, no permission is needed to fly drones.

Want to make India a destination for international arbitration: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

Sep 11, 2021

Addressing the event, Rijiju said, “We want to make India, a destination for international arbitration. To improve our judicial system, we must target to deliver justice to the common man. We must focus on how common man is delivered with justice on time and bridge the gap between common man and justice.”

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Stay-at-home orders in major states mark next phase of U.S. coronavirus crisis

Mar 20, 2020

The pandemic that has swept the globe has also shattered lifestyles across much of the United States in the past week, shuttering schools and businesses, prompting millions to work from home, forcing many out of jobs and curtailing travel.

Swiss Re, Zurich insurance in talks with Swiss regulator about Coronavirus Impact

Mar 20, 2020

Insurers — as well as the re-insurers who take up their losses — are assessing the cost of disruptions related to the virus – which has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 and put swathes of the U.S. and Europe on lockdown. The industry has worked to reduce its exposure to pandemics since the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Asia. Over recent years, that’s included tightening their policies by inserting communicable-disease exclusions in contracts.

California issues ‘stay home’ order; U.S. death toll hits 200

Mar 20, 2020

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits surged by the most since 2012 to a 2-1/2-year high last week, as companies in the services sector laid off workers with businesses shutting down due to the pandemic.

Millions could die if virus allowed to spread unchecked: UN chief Antonio Guterres

Mar 20, 2020

“The health catastrophe makes clear that we are only as strong as the weakest health system,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

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