Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has thanked the Indian Railways for transporting its Bolero pick-up vans to Bangladesh

Over 30 lakh non-gazetted employees will be benefited by the bonus announcement and total financial implication the decision will be Rs 3,737 crore, says Union minister Prakash Javadekar

FM Sitharaman on her part has put forth the suggestions but the discretion lies with states and private organisations. At least some of them are expected to offer similar benefits

For boosting consumer spending, the government today announced special tax exemption for Central government employees, who get Leave Travel Concessions (LTC) in a block of 4 years leave encashment of 10 days

Under this LTC Cash Voucher Scheme, government employees can opt to receive full cash payment on leave encashment plus three times the ticket fare, to buy items which attract a GST of 12 per cent or more

Thackeray said the government had earlier declared 600 acre of Aarey land as forest but now it has been revised to 800 acre

Finance Ministry said that the government is open to all possibilities to minimise COVID-19's impact and the Finance Minister is not averse to taking any further measures to ease people's suffering

Weeks before the festive season begins, some of the high-frequency indicators such as auto sales, air traffic, toll collection and rail freight loadings have revived hopes of recovery

All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee, a coalition of farmers organisations, has also called upon the central government to heed to the farmers demands and desist from promulgating these Acts

Farmers' protest: In Punjab, farmers continued their 'rail roko' agitation for the fifth consecutive day. The protesters under the banner of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee have been squatting on rail tracks since September 24 at Jalandhar, Amritsar, Tanda, Mukerian and Ferozepur

Harsimrat Kaur Badal who recently resigned from the government tweeted, 'Indeed a DARK DAY for democracy as President Kovind too refused to heed the request of 18 political parties pleading him not to sign the undemocratically passed anti-farmer bills'

Bihar election 2020: Elections in Bihar would be the first major election held amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Bihar elections are likely to be held in October-November

Farmers' protest: Farmers started a three-day rail blockade against the bills and squatted on tracks at many places in Punjab on Thursday. The farmer outfits have also decided to go for an indefinite rail blockade from October 1

The clone trains will run in addition to the 310 special trains already in service and will be fully reserved with their stoppages being limited to operational halts

The Railways has introduced these 20 pairs of trains on high demand routes with most trains between Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also thanked PM Modi and Piyush Goyal for their work aimed at Bihar's development. Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said that these rail lines will connect Jain and Buddhist pilgrimage sites

Delhi Metro services, which were shut on March 22 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, resumed on September 7 in a phased manner

This telephonic conversation between Modi and Abe happened hours after New Delhi and Tokyo inked a significant defence supplies agreement between the Indian Armed Forces and the Self-Defense Forces of Japan

The Railways started Shramik Specials on May 1 to transport stranded migrant workers to their native states after thousands tried to reach home on foot due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The last Shramik Special train was operated on July 9

Delhi Metro services resume: Delhi Metro started today with limited operations on the Yellow Line connecting Samaypur Badli to HUDA City Centre and Rapid Metro for limited hours