Politics

Do you mean to implement or not implement the Social Distancing requirement? Is it safe or dangerous to Fly with all seats occupied, said Congress' Randeep Surjewala.

At a function held at Vidhan Bhawan in south Mumbai, Council Chairman Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar administered the oath to Uddhav Thackeray and others who were elected unopposed to the Upper House on May 14.

The Prime Minister's announcement has evoked both appreciation and confusion among the people, he said.

In a letter to Gandhi, the Railways' largest union of workers said travelling during the coronavirus pandemic is dangerous but railway staffers are making it possible through their hard work.

In a series of tweets, he also said that there is a steady rise in the number of calls regarding COVID-19 on the police helpline number 100.

The West Bengal BJP’s legal cell convenor said the Mamata Banerjee-led government has failed to tackle the coronavirus crisis in the state.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan discussed the coronavirus lockdown in India and its economic impact.

The Congress on Wednesday attacked the government over the issue of bad loans, accusing it of weakening the entire banking architecture fiscally and imprudently in the name of cleaning the system.

A reply from RBI which stated that the government has waived Rs 68,607 crore of the top 50 bank loan defaulters.

The chief ministers also said that the government should evolve a policy for sending home migrant workers stranded in different states.

Mayawati said it would have been better if the governments made proper arrangements for the millions of people suffering due to the lockdown and sent them home.

Priyanka Gandhi's remarks came over Agra Mayor Naveen Jain's letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, requesting him to 'save Agra'.

The central teams have been visiting hospitals and quarantine centres and meeting officials in Kolkata and Siliguri.

The government on Thursday froze inflation-linked allowance for its 1.1 crore employees and pensioners, a move states are likely to replicate, helping save a combined Rs 1.2 lakh crore that could be used to combat the coronavirus crisis.

Earlier, KCR government had decided to release the funds which would allow MLAs and MLCs to spend towards the development of their respective constituencies.

Moily's attack on the government came a day after RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced a string of relief measures for the stressed banking and financial sector.