With the gradual lifting of the restrictions on economic activities across the country, business sentiments have recovered with the CII Business Confidence Index surging to 50.3 in the July-September period.
Day: September 21, 2020
Amid stiff protests from the Opposition, the Parliament Sunday cleared The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill.
India has dismissed as factually not correct a United Nations report which suggested presence of significant numbers of ISIS terrorists in Kerala and Karnataka.
Film editor Aarti Bajaj, who is the first wife of director Anurag Kashyap, has come to his support after he was accused by actor Payal Ghosh of sexual harassment.
The ‘all-party’ meeting convened by the main opposition DMK to discuss the farmer Bills passed in Parliament started this morning.
Eight members, including Trinamool Congress’ Derek O’Brien, of the Rajya Sabha were today suspended for a week over Sunday’s chaos in the House during the passage of the two farm bills.
Animal trials of Bharat Biotech International Limited’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covaxin, have been successful and the results showed the shot’s ‘remarkable immunogenicity and protective efficacy’ in the Phase I clinical trials in India, the drugmaker has said.
No significant or drastic mutation in strains of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India till now, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan has said.
At least 10 people were killed and many others are feared trapped after a three-storey building collapsed at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane. Rescue operations are under way.