Last month, Modi government had outlined a Rs 1.7-lakh crore economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and food security measures to give relief to millions of poor hit by an ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown

The objective is on one hand to enforce a lockdown to curb the spread of the virus and on the other hand to ensure that our country can navigate through the challenges brought about by such lockdown by maintaining essential goods and services

India last month outlined a 1.7-trillion rupee economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and food security measures to give relief to millions of poor hit by the lockdown

Sonia Gandhi said that a substantial amount would be available if the central government imposed a complete ban on media advertisements for two years, except for COVID-19 advisorie

Trump on Monday warned of \"retaliation\" if India banned supply of medicines. A few hours after Trump's remarks, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced that India would supply essential drugs to some nations badly affected by COVID-19

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Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the fund from MPLADS scheme will go to Consolidated Fund of India to address the challenges in fight against COVID-19

\"President, Vice President, Governors voluntarily decided to take pay cut. Money will go to Consolidated Fund of India,\" Javadekar added

Till now, three FIRs have been registered against Kapoor on charges of negligence and disobeying the directions of government officials

Academicians around the world and fraud control practitioners working in the insurance industry feel that India should consider Insurance Frauds Control Act on the lines of acts in different states of the USA as the beginning point for discussion

Given its predominant role as a source of livelihood, the informal economy needs to be fixed first once the health crisis blows over. This would call for a series of long-neglected steps such as collecting comprehensive data on informal establishments and informal labour, benchmarking reasonable national minimum wage, providing comprehensive social security cover and reviving MSMEs

Coronavirus in India live updates: The IAF personnel is posted in Delhi and was traced by the Delhi Police through the cellphone towers of the Nizamuddin area

The problems with the Fasal Bima Yojana and how the scheme can be fixed

The justification coming from the government sources is that while PMNRF is for all kinds of natural disasters, PM CARES fund is specially meant for COVID-19 similar pandemic situations

In a letter to all Lok Sabha members on Saturday, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said country is passing through a tough phase due to the coronavirus outbreak and \"as public representatives, it is our duty to stand with the people\"

India coronavirus updates: Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of Infosys, has committed Rs 100 crore towards fighting coronavirus in India. Earlier, Reliance Industries donated Rs 500 crore to PM CARES Fund

655 people died due to coronavirus in Spain as of Friday, pushing Spain's toll to 4,089, second only to Italy and further beyond China

Shell companies are intrinsic to the global and Indian economy, but they require a high level of oversight to prevent them from becoming conduits for illicit financial flows

The changes, already approved by parliament and Russia's Constitutional Court, would reset Putin's presidential term tally to zero, allowing him to serve two more back-to-back six year terms until 2036

Press Information Bureau denied any such possibility, saying that the story \"is malicious and fake and that there is no such plan\"