By Administrator_India Capital Sands The government on Sunday refuted media speculation around the initial public offer (IPO) of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and said that it is unlikely to come up with the IPO of LIC in the current financial year ending March 2022. “Some media speculation doubting the feasibility of LIC IPO this fiscal […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The technical advisory group of the World Health Organisation on October 26 sought “additional clarifications” from Bharat Biotech to conduct a final “risk-benefit assessment” for Emergency Use Listing of its COVID-19 vaccine. The statement came hours after WHO official Dr. Margaret Harris had said that a recommendation was expected within the next 24 […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Oil prices pared early gains on Monday, off more than three-week highs reached earlier in the session as a powerful hurricane plowing through the Gulf of Mexico forced shutdowns and evacuations of hundreds of offshore oil platforms. Brent was up 16 cents or 0.2% at $72.86 a barrel by 0153 […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The record feat of 1.03 crore vaccine doses on August 27 was achieved on the back of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Haryana notching up their highest daily jab numbers, villages joining the party with 70 percent of all jabs given in rural India, and Mumbai, Bengaluru and Gurgaon hitting their […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Neeraj Chopra unleashes a spear that soars into the Tokyo sky, stops himself before the foul line by gripping the turf for a split second, and springs back in one swift motion. Next, he nonchalantly turns his back on the javelin — still in its flight path — and holds his […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Stressing on the ‘Nation First, Always First’ mantra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that as the country enters its 75th year of Independence, every citizen should lead a “Bharat Jodo Andolan” in the same manner as Mahatma Gandhi had led the “Bharat Chhoro Andolan”. In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Customized Crash Course programme for COVID-19 frontline workers on Friday (June 18) via video conferencing. The launch will commence the programme in 111 training centers spread over 26 states, the Prime Minister`s office informed. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands India’s record of more than $600 billion of foreign exchange reserves might not be good enough, as it falls short on some measures including import cover and liability outflows, according to new research from the central bank. Foreign exchange reserves surged to $605 billion in the week to June 4 as the […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Aiming at a stiff vaccination target, the government has booked 30 crore doses of Hyderabad-based Biological-E’s Covid vaccine, which is still in clinical trials. The Health Ministry will make an advance payment of ₹ 1,500 crores to the company for what will be the second made-in-India vaccine to be used […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the government’s new digital rules that take effect today, saying these would compel it to break privacy protections to users. The Facebook-owned messaging service filed its petition on Tuesday against the rules that will require it to “trace” the […]
