Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 15 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday demanded a special package for small scale industries and entrepreneurs to overcome the crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic in the State.
Washington DC [USA], May 15 (Sputnik/ANI): There are not enough doses of the coronavirus trial drug remdesivir because the Trump administration failed to ramp up production and lacks a distribution plan, former government vaccine developer Rick Bright said on Thursday.
New Delhi [India], May 14 (AN): The Delhi High Court has directed petitioner National Hawker Federation (NHF) to approach the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with its plea alleging large-scale cutting of trees in Anand Vihar area in Delhi for building a proposed canteen by the railway.
Madrid [Spain], May 14 (Sputnik/ANI): Approximately five per cent of the Spanish population has developed antibodies for COVID-19, according to preliminary findings of a large-scale study conducted by the country's Ministry of Health that were announced on Wednesday.
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday hailed the economic package, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day earlier, and added that focus on local goods needed to be given to take it to the global scale.
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 13 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck Nepal late on Tuesday, country's national seismological centre said.
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 12 (ANI): The Department of Industries and Commerce, Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday said that as many as 4,802 industrial units are functional in the Union Territory, including large scale and MSMEs.
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Photo and video-sharing social networking application Instagram has announced a new feature to help small businesses that are badly affected due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 11 (ANI): The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to intervene in the postings of six police officers of junior scale who were promoted to the senior scale in the month of February.
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): There is a critical and immediate need for a significant stimulus of Rs 9 lakh crore to 10 lakh crore or four to five per cent of the GDP to stimulate demand and supply for averting a long-term economic slowdown, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commer
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday reshuffled 16 IAS officers and said the officials with senior-time scale will need field exposure "before they take up higher responsibilities."
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 5 (ANI): Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), a defence Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), has signed an MoU for the large-scale manufacturing of ventilators developed by NOCCA Robotics, an incubated start-up of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.