- 29 Dec
- 2020
How India's banking and financial sector will shape up in post-COVID 2021
Continuing portfolio flows are keeping the rupee strong vis-a-vis the dollar. Retail dollar demand has not picked up as both overseas education and foreign travel were hit hard by COVID-19
- 27 Dec
- 2020
19 crore rural tribe to get tap water by 2024
Every year, over 3 crore tribe are to be given tap water connections, says Jal Jeevan Mission Director
- 26 Dec
- 2020
2020: A glimpse of life without trains as Railway fight odds to keep India's lifeline running
As the coronavirus lockdown was announced on March 24, the Railways for the first time in its 167-year-old history shut down all its services. It was on May 1 that the wheels of trains started swigging again. This time, to ferry migrant workers home.
- 25 Dec
- 2020
Mini antibodies against COVID-19 isolated from llama may stop infection
Preliminary results, published in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest that the nanobody appears to work equally well in either liquid or aerosol form, suggesting it could remain effective after inhalation.
- 24 Dec
- 2020
US population improvement smallest in at least 120 years
The U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years from 2019 to 2020, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau _ a tendency that demographers say provides a glimpse of the coronavirus pandemic's toll.
- 23 Dec
- 2020
WTO to review India's e-commerce and farm policies, digital tax next month
A senior government official said they are bracing for a slew of questions on the government’s proposed e-commerce policy, digital tax, higher duties on IT products, invoking the peace clause for exceeding the subsidies for rice, and its farm policies regarding pulses, sugar and lentils, at the review of its commerce policy next month.
- 22 Dec
- 2020
Joe Biden names Indian American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member
Ramamurti is the Managing Director of the Corporate Power programme at the Roosevelt Institute. He was also appointed in April to serve on the Congressional Oversight Commission for the CARES Act by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
- 21 Dec
- 2020
Huawei, ZTE Ban: US Lawmakers Said to Back $1.9 Billion to Replace Telecom Equipment From Chinese Companies
Earlier this month, the FCC finalized rules that require carriers with ZTE or Huawei equipment to “rip and replace” that equipment but is awaiting funding from Congress.
