Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates has praised the Indian government and PM Narendra Modi for the recently introduced Aarogya Setu app. The app that tracks the Covid-19 spread in the country and gives tips on how to stay safe, was launched earlier this month for both Android and iPhones (iOS) and is claimed to have crossed 50 millions downloads already.
Russia finds it important to launch a BRICS center for vaccine research and development. BRICS states agreed to establish this center back in 2018
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday spoke with Russian and American counterparts on joint fight against Covid-19 besides reviewing Afghan situation. He also spoke with his counterparts from Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
WhatsApp’s payment business will comply with all local rules mandated by the banking regulator for payment companies by May, the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform has told the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), ET has learnt from people familiar with the development.
The coronavirus disease pandemic (Covid-19) has offered India a valuable lesson on the importance of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and the country, each state within it, each district within every state, and each village within every district must aspire to attain the twin goals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Fifty terrorists, including several top commanders of Jaish-e-Mohmmad (JeM) and Lashker-e-Tioba (LeT), were killed in counter terrorism operations by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir this year so far, officials said on Friday. Giving details, a senior official told that the slain terrorists included top commanders of JeM, LeT and Hizbul Mujahideen.
State Bank of India’s (SBI) mCASH is a simple and quick way to claim funds sent by SBI customers through OnlineSBI or SBI Yono. This facility allows SBI customers having Internet Banking facility to transfer funds to a third party without beneficiary registration, either through mobile number or email-ID of the beneficiary
The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India is taking several measures to facilitate the farmers and farming activities at field level during the lockdown period. The updated status of activities is given below:
Department of Biotechnology’s Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (DBT-CIAB) at Mohali, has planned a bouquet of research projects aimed at generating products that could be used for prevention, diagnosis or cure of for the deadly COVID 19 infection that is currently sweeping over the entire world.
Coal India Limited (CIL) will produce 710 million tonnes (MT) of coal and company’s coal offtake target will also remain at 710 MT for this fiscal. Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri Pralhad Joshi set these targets for the state-run company while reviewing its performance through video conference on 22nd April 2020.
