TRS MP B. Lingaiah Yadav had raised the matter during the Zero Hour in the House. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said in the Rajya Sabha that fund under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) for 2019-20 have been cleared.TRS MP B. Lingaiah Yadav had raised the matter during the Zero Hour in the House.Responding on the issue, Ms. Sitharaman said several MPs from different parties had made representation on the matter.“It is well known that for 2020-21 and 2021-22 the decision had been taken that no new commitments for MPLADS will be made, and, therefore,…
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Challenges posed by North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and China’s growing influence loom large in the Biden administration’s first Cabinet-level trip abroad. In North Korea’s first comments directed at the Biden administration, Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister criticised the United States and South Korea for holding military exercises and warned the U.S. against further provocations if it wants a “good night’s sleep for the next four years.”Kim Yo Jong’s statement on Tuesday was issued as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Asia to talk to U.S. allies Japan and South Korea about North Korea…
The vaccine was developed jointly by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences China has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, one that was developed by the head of its Center for Disease Control, adding to its arsenal.Also read: Explained | What we know about China-made vaccinesGao Fu, the head of China’s CDC, led the development of a protein subunit vaccine that was approved by regulators last week for emergency use, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Microbiology said in a statement Monday.It is the fourth such vaccine to be given emergency…
The British Prime Minister will seek to to ‘unlock’ the opportunities in the strategic Indo-Pacific region Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April on his first major international tour following the UK’s exit from the European Union, Downing Street has announced, as Britain seeks to “unlock” the opportunities in the strategic Indo-Pacific region.The announcement of the visit, which had been postponed from a planned Republic Day tour in January due to the escalating COVID-19 crisis in the UK, comes as Mr. Johnson launches the conclusions of the UK government’s Integrated Review of defence, security, development…
More than half of the faculty positions reserved for OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant, while about 40% of those reserved for Scheduled Castes and Tribes also remain unfilled, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank told Lok Sabha on Monday in a written response to a question from three Congress MPs.The Centre has informed a parliamentary panel that a “standalone project” to build a critical road along the border with China in Ladakh is going on.Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur on Monday told the Lok Sabha that the Centre and the States should work together towards…
The pay deal by the New York-based news business firm follows a similar agreement struck with Google last month News Corp and Facebook announced on Tuesday new pay deals for news in Australia three weeks after the government passed laws that would make digital giants help cover the costs of journalism.The New York-based news business firm that operates mainly in the United States, Britain and Australia said it had reached a multi-year agreement with Facebook that covers its major Australian mastheads as well as regional publications.The pay deal follows a similar agreement struck with Google last month.Sky News Australia, a…
BSP president Mayawati announced on March 15 that the party would contest the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, saying it had a “bitter experience” of aligning with other parties in the past.Ms. Mayawati also stated that her party would go alone in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election next year.”We are working internally on the elections. We do not reveal our strategy,” Ms. Mayawati said at an event to pay tributes to BSP founder Kanshi Ram on his 87th birth anniversary.”The BSP will contest on all the 403 assembly seats in U.P. and…
The Supreme Court decided on Monday to examine a plea by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against a Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) order authorising post-graduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda to be trained to perform surgical procedures.A Bench led by Chief Justice Sharad A. Bobde issued notice to the Ministry of Ayush, CCIM and National Medical Commission.The IMA has moved the top court to quash the amendment to CCIM regulations. It argued that CCIM did not have the powers to include surgery in Ayurveda syllabus.The notification by the CCIM has listed 39 general surgery procedures and around…
Much of the case centres around an August 2013 PowerPoint presentation made to a HSBC executive during a lunch in Hong Kong Lawyers for a senior executive of Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies were in court on March 15 arguing new evidence should be introduced to the proceedings to help their client fight extradition to the U.S.Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and the company’s chief financial officer, at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move designed to…
Protests erupted at several places in West Bengal including in front of the State BJP office at Hastings in Kolkata. Supporters of the party held protests for hours at Hastings demanding change of candidates in many seats. They were upset with the candidates at Panchala, Udaynarayanpur and Raidighi Assembly seats. Senior leaders like Mukul Roy, MP Arjun Singh and Shivprakash had to face the protesters who broke barricades and also indulged in violence. In districts like Hooghly, the party office was attacked. On Sunday, the BJP supporters in Singur had protested against the nomination of 88-year Rabindranath Bhattacharya, a four-time…