Day: February 8, 2021

Rishabh Pant top scored for the hosts with a breezy 91, while Washington Sundar (85 not out) and Cheteshwar Pujara (73) provided hefty contributions to the tally.

Nepali media on Sunday published stories on the basis of the leaked correspondence which show how China made Nepal accept its Sinovac vaccine produced by Sinopharm without any further delay.

The Indian aviation sector is showing positive signs after being completely shut down during the coronavirus-induced lockdown last year but remains in the “eye of the storm,” Rémi Maillard, President-MD, Airbus India and South Asia, has said.

The US smartphone sales in December 2020 came in at 14.9 million units and Apple drove the market, increasing its share of sales by almost one third, according to a new report.

The Finance Ministry has granted permission to four states of Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to borrow an additional Rs 5,034 crore for undertaking ease of doing business reforms.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the central budget for 2021-22 fiscal has focused on spending to build infrastructure and boost the economic growth of the country.

The Indian Army laid the foundation stone of the tallest Indian national flag in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. The flag will be on a 100 feet-high pole.

A total of 30 elephants from various temples and mutts across Tamilnadu are attending the annual elephant rejuvenation camp, which is underway at Thekkampatti on the banks of Bhavani river at Mettupalayam in the district.

Netaji’s grandnephew Sugata Bose has questioned the authenticity of some relics at an ongoing exhibition at the Victoria Memorial here, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter.

Elaborating on the Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC), a new cess announced in the union budget 2020-21, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that with AIDC, the central government will have some money for funding agricultural infrastructure activities.