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Modi’s top level meeting signals major announcements
IPA Webdesk Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda this evening in what is thought to be the forerunner to major announcements. There is talk of a major social scheme to be announced in the next few days as...
Mukul Roy back with Mamata, vows never to go back to BJP
IPA Webdesk West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced the re-entry of former BJP national vice president Mukul Roy, and his son Subhranshu Roy into the Trinamool Congress-fold. The announcement was made during a press conference at the Trinamool Congress headquarters in Kolkata. “I feel happy that...
Modi holds Covid damage control review meetings
IPA Webdesk In continuation of the damage control exercise to extricate the Modi government from complete loss of credibility in handling the second wave of Covid, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday held review meetings for various ministries. The meetings that lasted several hours were held in the wake of...
Delhi liquor home delivery notified
IPA Webdesk The Delhi government has notified the rules allowing liquor vendors under specific category of licence to run home delivery service. The rules will come into force from today. On June 1, the Delhi government had said it would allow home delivery of liquor through mobile apps or...
Sanjay Raut adds to buzz on Sena patch-up with BJP
IPA Webdesk There is further buzz on the possibility of a patch-up between Shiv Sena and BJP, with Sena MP Sanjay Raut describing Prime Minister Narendra Mody as the “top leader of the country and his party” two days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met the Prime Minister...
Yogi in Delhi for crucial meetings amid UP dissent
IPA Webdesk UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be in Delhi for two days, during which he is set to have meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The meetings assume significance in view of the reports of dissent...
Finance Ministry pitches for 24×7 vaccination to revive growth
IPA Webdesk The Finance Ministry has proposed vaccination of 70 crore people by the end of September and suggested holding 24×7 vaccination for the next couple of months to quicken the vaccination coverage. This is absolutely essential for regaining the country’s economic growth momentum, the ministry highlighted. The ministry...
Studies show Delta variant can infect despite vaccination
IPA Webdesk Separate studies by AIIMS Delhi and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have revealed that he ‘delta’ variant of COVID-19 – the version first detected in India in October last year – is capable of infecting people even after they have received both doses of the...
Bengali filmmaker-poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta dies at 77
IPA Webdesk Renowned Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta died at the age of 77 on Thursday morning. He was suffering from a kidney ailment. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who was also a celebrated poet, had won several National Awards for his contribution to Bengali cinema. Mourning Buddhadeb Dasgupta on Twitter, West Bengal...
Delhi records 44 degrees temperature
IPA Webdesk The maximum temperature breached the 44 degrees Celsius mark in parts of Delhi on Wednesday, even as winds carrying dust from Rajasthan pushed the capital’s air quality to the “very poor” category, according to India Meteorological Department. However, “widespread rainfall” is likely to bring down the mercury...
Is Sachin Pilot next in line?
IPA Webdesk With Jitin Prasada quitting Congress and joining the BJP, all eyes are now on Sachin Pilot, who had led a revolt against the Congress leadership in Rajasthan one year ago. His demands remain unmet as yet. Sachin Pilot’s rebellion against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his...
Nandan Nilekani responds to new tax site glitches
IPA Webdesk Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s tweet about technical snags in the revamped income tax portal, saying his company “regrets these initial glitches” and the system will stabilise in a few days. “The new e-filing portal will ease the filing process and...
World Bank prunes Indian economy growth to 8.3% in 2021
The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its 2021-22 GDP growth forecast for the Indian economy to 8.3 per cent from 10.1 per cent estimated in April, saying economic recovery is being hampered by the devastating second wave of coronavirus infections. It projected a 7.5 per cent economic growth in...
Huge Internet outage, Amazon among affected sites
Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website. Most of Fastly’s...
FM flags glitches on new IT site
IPA Webdesk Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today tagged IT giant Infosys and and its co-founder Nandan Nilekani after receiving a large number of complaints from users on the new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department which was launched on Monday. “The much awaited e-filing portal 2.0 was launched...
UP relaxes lockdown in all districts
IPA Webdesk With active COVID-19 cases below the 600-mark in all 75 districts of the state, the Uttar Pradesh government today decided to give relaxations in the COVID-19 curfew. “There will be relaxation in coronavirus curfew in all the districts of the state from Wednesday onwards, from 7 am...
Supreme Court stand gave Modi no option but to change vaccine policy
The change in the Centre’s Covid vaccination policy, announced by PM Modi in his address to the nation, comes a week after the government faced some tough questions from the three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice DY Chandrachud, which had on May 31 flagged “various flaws”...
Union minister says liquor is like tonic
Union Union Minister of State for Steel Faggan Singh Kulaste on Sunday described liquor as a tonic which is important during Covid-19. He added that this is the reason why a large number of people consume liquor. Kulaste in an event in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla said, “When lockdown was...
