Day: February 1, 2020

Invincible so far, India will eye a rare 5-0 whitewash against a bruised and battered New Zealand in the final T20 International here on Sunday.

The Tamilnadu government today said over 500 people including Chinese nationals who had arrived here from the novel coronavirus-hit Asian nation were under observation but said no positive cases of the deadly virus has been detected so far in the State.

At a time when the world is looking for ways to tackle the climate crisis, Adyar has taken a step in the right direction. For the uninitiated, an urban forest is being developed at Kotturpuram. The blue board here read, ‘Dense forest- Miyawaki method using solid waste’.

In the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm residents are scared and angry over US President Donald Trump’s peace plan which sees them as part of a future Palestinian state.

The Indian economy experienced some abrupt slowdown in 2019 due to turbulence in non-banking financial institutions and major reform measures such as GST and demonetisation, but it is not in a recession, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced cuts in personal income tax, extended tax benefits for affordable housing and gave relief to companies on payment of dividend in the Union Budget for 2020-21.

Asserting that the CAA is an internal matter of India, the Ministry of External Affairs said it has noted the European Parliament’s decision to not put to vote a resolution on the citizenship law on Thursday and will continue to engage with the MEPs on the issue.

The Republican Party-controlled US Senate on Friday narrowly rejected the opposition Democrats’ motion to call new witnesses and documents for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today cut short her Budget speech as she felt unwell after speaking for a record 160 minutes in Lok Sabha.