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New Delhi, Sept 3: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that the bank accounts should not be declared as non-performing asset (NPA) as on 31 August should not be declared as NPAs until the disposal of the pleas seeking an extension of the moratorium period. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, was hearing two petitions seeking an extension of the moratorium period on repayment
New Delhi, Sept 3: The NCP on Thursday accused the BJP of using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to cancel the Question Hour in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament to "hide its failures" on multiple fronts. The NCP also called for using other electronic means to let parliamentarians question the Centre. "The BJP is using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to cancel the Question Hour
New Delhi, Sept 3: Under pressure for weeks over its handling of hate speech, Facebook on Thursday banned BJP politician T. Raja Singh from its platform and Instagram for violating its policy around content promoting violence and hate.
Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja aka Shailaja Teacher has been named as the winner of World's Top 50 Thinkers Thinkers of COVID-19 Age by UK-based Prospect Magazine. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand is ranked second in the list that was prepared from the result of a public ballot. "So deft was her handling of a 2018 outbreak of the deadly Nipah disease that it was commemorated
According to a report by news agency, 118 Chinese apps have been banned in India. The list of apps include PUBG Mobile, CamCard, Baidu, Cut Cut, VooV, Tencent Weiyun, Rise of Kingdoms, Zakzak and many more.
India has reported a 3.4% increase suicide cases in 2019, with a distraught person killing himself every four minutes in the country. Shockingly, five states -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka -- alone account for 49.5% of the suicides in the country.
Mathura, Sep 2: Hours after the Allahabad High Court granted conditional bail to him, Dr Kafeel Khan was released from the Mathura jail.
Even as India has shown the sings of becoming the new global epicentre of novel coronavirus, the country’s economy has been served a knock-out punch amid the pandemic. The arbitrary and unplanned lockdown imposed by the Narendra Modi led government mainly weighed on the already-declining consumer demand and investment in the country. With the data showing contraction in India’s GDP by 23.9 per
Chennai, Sept 1: Two days after former Karnataka IPS officer K Annamalai was appointed as the vice president of the Tamil Nadu state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, a notorious gangster too was inducted into the saffron party.