Chandigarh [India], Mar 24 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the government has sanctioned Rs 3 crore for providing food packets to over 38,000 people during the lockdown period in the state to combat the COVID-19 crisis.
Chandigarh [India], Mar 23 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday announced Rs 20 crore sanctioned out of the Chief Minister's relief fund amid a state-wide curfew in order to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 22 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday briefed Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Islamabad's diplomatic outreach to help lift sanctions against Tehran so that it could fight coronavirus pandemic, reports Geo news.
Washington [US], Mar 20 (ANI): The United States on Thursday (local time) sanctioned five UAE-based companies for "purchasing Iranian Petroleum products".
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 16 (ANI): Odisha government sanctioned Rs 225 crore out of the State Disaster Response Fund for containment of COVID-19 in the State, Special Relief Commissioner PK Jena informed on Monday.
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 (ANI): The Union Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry on Monday sanctioned Rs 4 lakh to eminent football commentator and historian Novy Kapadia towards his medical expenses.
Tehran [Iran], Mar 15 (ANI): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has appealed to heads of other countries facing the sanctions imposed by the United States, to stop observing the stringent measures and informed how efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic in his country have been severely hamp
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Mar 14 (ANI): The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Friday announced the suspension of all BWF World Tour and other BWF-sanctioned tournaments from March 16 until April 12 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
New Delhi [India], Mar 13 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the Congress governments had spent just Rs 4000 crore from 1985 to 2014 for cleaning the river Ganga but to no avail, while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government has sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore between
Srinagar (Jammu Kashmir) [India], Mar 10 (ANI): Kashmir Divisional Commissioner BA Khan on Tuesday sanctioned the establishment of independent economic offences wing in Jammu and Kashmir's Anti Corruption Bureau, the Department of Information and Public Relations, Govt of Jammu and Kashmir,
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Mar 1 (Sputnik/ANI): World Health Organisation's (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday said that the sanctions against Iran do not apply to emergencies and that Tehran would get all help it needed to fight with the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 1 (ANI): Days after Border Security Force (BSF) constable Mohammad Anees' house was set on fire by a mob, during the recent violence in the national capital, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday sanctioned a relief of Rs 10 lakh from the State's CM