Prasanta Borkakoty is the new Resident Chief Executive (RCE) of OIL

Prasanta Borkakoty is the new Resident Chief Executive (RCE) of OIL

🕔20:21, 30.Apr 2021

Duliajan, 30th April 2021: Shri Prasanta Borkakoty will assume the charge of Resident Chief Executive (RCE), of Oil India Limited, Field Headquarter from May 1, 2021. Shri Borkakoty joined OIL as an Executive Trainee (ET) on June 6, 1986 in

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Railway waives off charges for Covid testing and diet supplied during Covid related hospitalisation for Non Railway patients

Railway waives off charges for Covid testing and diet supplied during Covid related hospitalisation for Non Railway patients

🕔19:29, 30.Apr 2021

Indian Railway has waived off charges for Covid testing and diet supplied during Covid related hospitalisation for non Railway patients . It may be notes that Government of India is following “Whole of Government” approach where all, Ministries/Departments are working

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Samir Seksaria to take over as CFO of TCS

Samir Seksaria to take over as CFO of TCS

🕔19:14, 30.Apr 2021

Mumbai, April 30  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that Samir Seksaria will take over as the company’s Chief Financial Officer on May 1. He will replace V. Ramakrishnan, who will be retiring from the services of the company effective

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Covid disruption unlikely to impact April GST collections: SBI Ecowrap

Covid disruption unlikely to impact April GST collections: SBI Ecowrap

🕔19:13, 30.Apr 2021

Mumbai, April 30  Even with the new wave of Covid-19 resulting in ‘lockdowns’ in 15 parts of the country and impacting business all across, the country’s GST collections, the barometer of economic activity in India, is likely to cross the

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RBI Governor meets MD, CEOs of small finance banks

RBI Governor meets MD, CEOs of small finance banks

🕔19:12, 30.Apr 2021

Mumbai, April 30  The Reserve Bank of India on Friday held a meeting with heads of small finance banks on credit flows to different segments of the borrowers and get a sense of emerging stress on banks’ balance sheet in

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Armed forces get more emergency financial powers to fight Covid surge

Armed forces get more emergency financial powers to fight Covid surge

🕔19:09, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday granted emergency financial powers to top officers of all the three armed forces to fight the Covid-19 surge. These are in addition to the emergency powers delegated to the medical

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Scientific Advisor’s home care tips to manage Covid

Scientific Advisor’s home care tips to manage Covid

🕔19:08, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Amid the surge in Covid cases, the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, K. Vijay Raghavan, has curated information and brought a simple visual reference to manage mild symptoms of COVID-19

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Citizens’ lives are at stake, cooperate with Centre: SC to Delhi govt

Citizens’ lives are at stake, cooperate with Centre: SC to Delhi govt

🕔19:06, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  The Supreme Court on Friday continued its hearing on the Covid situation and asked the Delhi government to cooperate with the Centre. “Politics is for the time of elections, but now the citizens’ lives are at

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All arms of govt working together to deal with the Covid situation: PM

All arms of govt working together to deal with the Covid situation: PM

🕔19:05, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss the alarming Covid situation in the country. The meeting noted that the present pandemic predicament is a “once in a

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More Oxygen Express trains on way to Haryana, MP, UP, Telangana

More Oxygen Express trains on way to Haryana, MP, UP, Telangana

🕔18:30, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Even as various parts of the country report shortage of oxygen, the Indian Railways on Friday said that more Oxygen Express trains with 126 MT of the life-saving gas are on way to Haryana, Madhya Pradesh,

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Govt to provide Rs 15k cr to states for capital expenditure

Govt to provide Rs 15k cr to states for capital expenditure

🕔17:47, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30 Finance Ministry has decided to provide an additional amount of up to Rs 15,000 crore to states as interest free 50-year loan for spending on capital projects. The Department of Expenditure has issued fresh guidelines in this

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‘Over 1 cr Covid vaccine doses available with states, UTs’

‘Over 1 cr Covid vaccine doses available with states, UTs’

🕔17:45, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  A day before the start of third phase of Covid vaccination in the country, the Union Ministry Health and Family Welfare on Friday said that more than one crore doses are still available with the states

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Defence shipyard to provide medical oxygen supply to Goa: MoS Defence

Defence shipyard to provide medical oxygen supply to Goa: MoS Defence

🕔17:44, 30.Apr 2021

Panaji, April 30 Goa Shipyard Limited, a Defence Ministry shipyard, will aid the state government in providing the oxygen for Covid-19 patients with the help of its ‘Onsite Oxygen Generating Plant’, Union Minister of State for Defence Shirpad Naik said in

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International flights suspension extended till May 31

International flights suspension extended till May 31

🕔17:42, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  India on Friday extended the suspension on international commercial flight operations till May 31, 2021. However, international passenger flights under air travel bubble arrangements will continue. “In partial modification of circular dated 26-06-2020, the competent authority

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Senior journalist Rohit Sardana passes away

Senior journalist Rohit Sardana passes away

🕔17:41, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Rohit Sardana, senior journalist and one of the top anchors of Hindi news channel Aaj Tak passed away on Friday, according to people close to him. Rajdeep Sardesai took to twitter and wrote, “More terrible news

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NTPC charts way forward to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic amidst the recent surge in the second wave of Coronavirus

NTPC charts way forward to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic amidst the recent surge in the second wave of Coronavirus

🕔17:29, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi: April 30th: Considering the huge surge in COVID-19 cases in India, NTPC is taking several steps to fight against the spread of the virus. NTPC is adding to the capacity at all of the 7 NTPC hospitals which are being

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Petrol, diesel prices unchanged on Friday

Petrol, diesel prices unchanged on Friday

🕔13:45, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Fuel prices in the country remained unchanged on Friday as oil marketing companies decided to wait for state elections to get over before restarting daily revision of petrol and diesel produced in line with price movement

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First of $100M Covid aid from US arriving in India

First of $100M Covid aid from US arriving in India

🕔13:04, 30.Apr 2021

New York, April 30 (IANS) Two US planes carrying oxygen cylinders, rapid testing kits and N95 masks that are the first of Covid-19 assistance totally worth $100 million were to have arrived in India on Thursday night, according to US officials.

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Ayush doctors to join fight against Covid in UP

Ayush doctors to join fight against Covid in UP

🕔12:19, 30.Apr 2021

Lucknow, April 30 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked all Ayush practitioners to join the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. In a virtual interaction with Ayush practitioners, late on Thursday evening, Yogi Adityanath said that they should provide

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Chhattisgarh CM demands on-site registration for vaccination

Chhattisgarh CM demands on-site registration for vaccination

🕔11:21, 30.Apr 2021

New Delhi, April 30  Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that socially and economically weaker sections of the society should be given top priority in vaccination for Covid-19 and on-site registration facility should

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