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COVID-19: Centre announces more benefits via ESIC, EPFO for bereaved famil
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): In a huge relief to workers who lost their earning member to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Labour Ministry on Sunday announced a slew of benefits through ESIC and EPFO schemes to address the fear and anxiety of such workers about the well-being of their family m
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J-K to provide monthly pension, annual student scholarship to Covid victim
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 29 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir's Administrative Council under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha has approved financial assistance to families who have lost their sole earning members to Covid-19.
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'Ek Saath-India Rises Again' online musical concert for fundraising for CO
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): India has suffered a devastating second wave of the Covid pandemic. Amidst all the gloom and doom, civil society rose admirably to the occasion.
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UN boosts aid as DRC evacuates residents in fear of new volcano eruption
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kinshasa [Congo], May 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations (UN) has expanded humanitarian relief to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the country has evacuated residents from Goma in case of another volcanic eruption.
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LimeRoad supports COVID-affected employees with slew of relief measures
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): As India currently battles a deadly second wave of COVID infections, LimeRoad, India's leading independent fashion platform, has announced a slew of relief measures for employees affected with COVID during India's second wave of infections that peake
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Oxygen Express trains have delivered 20,000 MT oxygen across country
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): A milestone of 20,000 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) have been delivered across the country by the Indian Railways' Oxygen Express during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Union Minister of Railways, Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.
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Blinken, Jaishankar discuss wide range of issues including COVID-19 relief
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 29 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar in Washington and discussed a broad range of issues, including COVID-19 relief, efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation through the Quad, said US State Department sp
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Navy amps up relief efforts at cyclone affected areas in Odisha's Balasore
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Balasore (Odisha) [India], May 29 (ANI): Indian Navy relief teams deployed at Odisha's Balasore scaled up their efforts on Friday in coordination with the state authorities to provide assistance and render help to the affected population in the interior and adjacent fishing villages of th
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GST Council recommends IGST exemption on COVID-related medical goods, amn
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The GST Council at its 43rd meeting held on Friday recommended full exemption from IGST on a number of specified COVID-19 related goods such as medical oxygen, oxygen concentrators and other oxygen storage and transportation equipment, certain diagnostic m
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Congress seeks Rs 3,000 crore cyclone relief for West Bengal, Odisha, Jhar
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give a financial relief package of at least Rs 3,000 crore to West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand for the damage caused by cyclone Yaas.
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Compliance burden of small, medium-sized taxpayers reduced: Nirmala Sithar
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): In major decisions taken by the GST Council today, compliance burden of small taxpayers and medium-sized taxpayers has been reduced and an amnesty scheme has been recommended for reducing late fee payable, to provide relief to small taxpayers, informed Uni
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After PSERC reduces domestic power tariff, Punjab CM says decision will be
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], May 28 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said that the massive cut, ranging from 50 paise to Rs 1 per unit, in domestic power tariff will provide major relief to domestic consumers, especially the poor, who are already reeling under financi
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