New Delhi: Chief economic adviser KV Subramanian said India’s gross domestic product (GDP) will contract in the first quarter, but is likely to grow 2% for the full financial year and that a stimulus is expected “soon”. But he cautioned against demands for government support similar to that provided by […]
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JALNA: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope announced that all citizens will be covered under the state government’s health scheme, and Maharashtra will be the first state to provide free and cashless insurance protection to its people. Speaking to reporters after a Maharashtra Day event in Jalna on Friday, Tope said […]
NEW DELHI: Google Inc has made its Meet app free for all users, with up to 100 people being able to connect simultaneously, as the US-based technology behemoth seeks to capitalise on the surging popularity of video conferencing apps. Earlier, the premium video conferencing app was available only for paid […]
New Delhi: Five out of the eight Northeastern states are completely coronavirus-free and the remaining three have not added any new COVID-19 positive case in the last few days, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. Singh, who is the minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), said this […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked the government to make Covid-19 testing by private laboratories free of charge in an interim order. Private lab charges are capped at ₹4,500 apiece while the test is free at government facilities. The bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and Ravindra S Bhatt said that […]
Laying an emphasis on the urgency of increased testing for novel coronavirus, the Supreme Court today directed the government to issue directions to approved testing laboratories for conducting COVID-19 tests free of cost. The apex court has also ordered that such tests be conducted only in NABL accredited labs or […]
TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services, announced on Monday a free, 15-day self-paced digital certification programme called Career Edge, specially designed for college students/working professionals to enhance their career skills by helping them effectively utilise the time at hand during this period of lockdown. The programme, offered […]
NEW DELHI: India’s top oil and gas producer ONGC has sent an SOS to the government seeking a cut in taxes as well as being granted pricing and marketing freedom for gas to help it weather the slump in prices that has made sustaining operations difficult and may force a […]
NEW DELHI: Testing and treatment for COVID-19 will be free of cost for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries at private laboratories and empanelled hospitals, the National Health Authority (NHA) said on Saturday. The NHA, which implements the national health insurance scheme, said this will strengthen the country’s response to the novel coronavirus […]
New Delhi: The government should end all price control over locally-produced natural gas without which it would be hard to develop several fields and raise local output, ONGC chairman Shashi Shanker has said after the domestic gas price slid 26% to record-low of $2.39 per unit, hammering the state-run firm […]