Electric two-wheeler industry coming out of Covid shocks

August 21, 2020

As the market is slowly opening up post-lockdown, the electric twowheeler industry is recovering. According to the data available on ‘Vahan Sewa’ of the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), the Electric Vehicle (EV) industry sold 1,873 high-speed electric scooters in the April-June quarter. Low-Speed sales are not tracked...

SC to hear plea on population control on 14 August, a year after PM’s I-Day speech on it

July 23, 2020

The Supreme Court will hear the issue of population control law, including a two-child norm, on 14 August, exactly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of population explosion in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort. In a Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging a last...

Health ministry fails to take action on hospital irregularities

July 22, 2020

The Union Health Ministry officials have failed to take any action in a case related to irregularities and corruption in the Sports Injury Centre (SIC) at the Safdarjung Hospital in the capital, as a result of which exorbitant money was charged from patients for different kinds of implants. Sources said...

Zydus begins human trials of its potential Covid-19 vaccine

July 17, 2020

The ZyCoV-D, the plasmid DNA vaccine designed and developed by Zydus and funded by the Department of Biotechnology, has initiated phase I/II clinical trials in healthy subjects, making it the first indigenously developed vaccine for Covid-19 to be administered in humans in India. The adaptive Phase I/II dose escalation, multi-centric...

IPS officer helps people fight Covid-19

July 9, 2020

An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has been trying to help people in his own way to fight these difficult times arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Karuna Sagar, Director Modernisation, Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), Delhi, has been supporting the people of Jehanabad (Bihar) from where he...

CBSE reduces Class 9-12 syllabus by 30%: HRD minister

July 8, 2020

Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Tuesday announced that the CBSE has revised the syllabi for classes IX-XII for the academic session 2020-21. He said that the changes made in the syllabi have been finalised by the respective Course Committees with the approval of the Curriculum...

IOC sets up joint venture firm for LPG business in Bangladesh

July 3, 2020

State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has set up a joint venture with Bangladesh’s RR Holdings Ltd for LPG business in that country. The joint venture company will import LPG for sale in the local market. In a statement, the company said: “IOC Middle East FZE, Dubai, a whollyowned subsidiary of...

AYUSH Ministry asks Ramdev to explain corona medicine claim, stop coronil advert

June 25, 2020

Close on the heels of the AYUSH Ministry asking Swami Ramdev’s Patanjali to stop the advertising of ‘Coronil’, which has been claimed to care Covid-19, the Uttarakhand government has said it will issue a notice asking how the company got permission to make the kit. According to sources, Uttarakhand’s state...

8 lakh houses scheduled for delivery in 2020-21 may miss the deadline

June 24, 2020

More than 8.78 lakh residential units, which were scheduled to be delivered in 2020- 21, are likely to miss the deadline due to lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to Covid-19, top seven cities of the country were supposed to see completion of over 8.78 lakh units...

UP prisoners making 3-times more phone calls in lockdown

May 20, 2020

A survey conducted across jails in Uttar Pradesh reveals that the number of phone calls made has increased at least three times in the lockdown period compared to the pre-lockdown days. This is because telephones are now the only window of communication for inmates lodged in the jails. This is...