President Ram Nath Kovind has promulgated the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 to bring all urban cooperative banks and multi-state cooperative banks under the supervision of the RBI in order to protect the interest of depositors.
Asserting that the government's guiding light is the Constitution of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the government does not discriminate between faith, gender, caste, creed or language and is led by the desire to empower 130 crore Indians.
With India's COVID-19 cases crossing the five lakh-mark, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the government has no plan to defeat the pandemic and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has surrendered as he refuses to fight coronavirus.
It has been 45 years since Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in India. From June 1975 to March 1977, for nearly two years, democracy was suspended in the country. We need to remember those tumultuous days every year to make sure that the country’s Constitution and democracy are not subjected to the same treatment again.
Petrol price on Saturday was hiked by 25 paise per litre and diesel by 21 paise, taking the cumulative increase in rates in three weeks to Rs 9.12 and Rs 11.01 respectively.
Six days after it recorded four lakh infections, India's COVID-19 tally raced past five lakh on Saturday with the highest single-day surge of 18,552 cases, while the death toll climbed to 15,685, according to Union health ministry data.
The government on Friday permitted Indian airlines to increase their number of domestic passenger flights to 45 per cent of their pre-COVID capacity, according to an official order.
Facebook has said that it will flag all "newsworthy" posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump.
Udupi: The Indian Meteorological Department and the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre have predicted heavy showers in the state coast for three days starting June 27.
Kota, Udupi: A nine-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle died when he was run over by an over-speeding tipper truck in Belur village on Friday evening here.