New Delhi, June 23, 2020: Prime Minister Office has released details of allocations of donated money in the PM CARES Fund today. It says that the PM CARES Fund Trust has allocated Rs. 2000 crore for supply of 50000 ‘Made-in-India’ ventilators to government-run COVID hospitals in all States/UTs. Further, a sum of Rs. 1000 crore […]
New Delhi, June 11, 2020: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended only reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) test for novel coronavirus testing. Researchers at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have developed a new low-cost and low-tech required test for SARS-CoV-2 testing. This test is known as reverse transcription nested […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding India-Australia Virtual Summit with Prime Minister Scott Morrison on 4th June 2020. Dates for the visit of Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison to India this year had been finalised, but the visit could not take place. It was also agreed to hold a “Virtual Summit”. This is […]
India strongly condemned the barbaric terrorist attacks against innocent civilians, including women and children, at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital maternity ward, funeral in Nangarhar province and the Army check post in Laghman province on 11-12 May. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said that ‘such reprehensible attacks, including on mothers, newly born children, nurses […]
New Delhi, May 8th, 2020: White House heard the Vedic Hindu Prayer at the National Day of Prayer in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington D.C on May 7th, 2020. The National Day of Prayer is an annual event formally enacted in 1952 celebrating faith and prayer in America’s life. Now, when […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a phone call yesterday with Antonio Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal to discuss COVID-19. The Prime Minister recalled the State Visit of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal to India in February. The two leaders discussed the state of COVID-19 pandemic and the steps being taken by both countries […]
By Namta Gupta New Delhi, May 4th, 2020: In Pakistan, a congratulatory video is going viral in which an Islamic Cleric is expressing joy over the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam during Coronavirus. The unidentified cleric tells the anchor in the video: I have good news for you. I have just received a message that a […]
By Namta Gupta New Delhi, April 30, 2020: Roma or the Romani community is one of Europe’s most disadvantaged communities. Standing somewhere at 10-12 million, the community is also one of the most marginalized and persecuted. And as Coronavirus knocks, the situation of the Roma community is turning worse with the European countries using the […]
Ministry of Shipping has decided that all the Major Ports may grant compensation /Ex-Gratia in the event of loss of life due to COVID-19/ Coronavirus to the dependent members/legal heirs of the port employees as under: Category Amount of compensation/Ex-Gratia (Rs.) All Port employees including Contract Labourers employed directly by the port 50.00 Lakh Other […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on phone today with Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia. The two leaders exchanged thoughts about the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region and the world. The Indonesian President appreciated the facilitation provided by the Government of India for supplies of pharmaceutical products to Indonesia. Prime Minister assured him […]
