News Desk The Reserve Bank has released Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs), March 2020. Data on total credit and deposits disaggregated by type, are classified by states/union territories (UTs), districts, centres, population groups and bank groups. These data are collected from SCBs, including Regional …
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Locust swarms can take flight too
Special Desk The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has warned aviation industry of the risks posed by locust swarms during a flight and even when the aircraft is on ground. As per DGCA, such locust attacks can damage parked aircraft, obstruct visual contact, cause problems in landing and take-off. …
Read More »Trump snaps ties with WHO
Special Desk Two days before US president Donald Trump had given ultimatum to stop funding to the World Health Organization and now he did it by snapping ties with the organisation. Trump’s action came after weeks of criticism that Trump did for the WHO and also that it took China’s …
Read More »National Guard deployed after Minneapolis clashes
Special Desk Violence clashes led to deployment of US National Guard to Minneapolis following the death of an unarmed man in custody. George Floyd, 46, died and video showed him gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck. This led to widespread protests and this has been …
Read More »Trump wants to mediate or arbitrate India-China border issue
Special Desk US president Donald trump wants to mediate India-China border issue and this is what he mentioned in his recent tweets. “We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute. Thank You!” tweeted …
Read More »Pandemic in US Vs. rest of world
Special Desk The world is looking towards the US on what is the situation of coronavirus there and the lessons to be learned from the country. The death toll in the US became the highest in the world in early April and has risen dramatically since then. Two days after …
Read More »Lucknow’s Chikan: hit hard in the lockdown
Rafat Fatima Koi umeed bar nahi ati Koi surat najar nahi ati (कोई उम्मीद बर नहीं आती कोई सूरत नज़र नहीं आती) Lucknow has a distinct etiquette and identical industries and prominent among them are two – zardoji and chikan. These handicraft industries have a big population dependent upon the production they do. These are several issues before them including …
Read More »The Locust attack: food security threat in India
Special Desk Food security is under threat in several states in India as the worst locust outbreak is ravaging West India, threatening to spread further east. Worrisome as several locusts waves are expected from now until early July, due to spring breeding in southern Iran and southwest Pakistan. UN has …
Read More »Nehru’s romantic affair with “Gori” Edwina and hypocrisy of Indian Politics
ABHIGYAN SHEKHAR Today is the 56th death anniversary of India’s first prime minister Pandit Nehru and we look into his affair with Lady Mountbatten. The relationship between Nehru and lady Mountbatten is no secret anymore, almost every academic and historian who has worked on the partition of India or Nehru …
Read More »Trump threatens to relocate convention from North Carolina
Jubilee News Desk An event slated in North Carolina from 24-27 August is now under threatening. The US President Donald Trump has threatened to relocate the Republican National Convention if restrictions are placed on the crowd size owing to coronavirus pandemic. The US elections are due this year. Trump said …
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