Year: 2020

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar penned a letter to PM Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking for a generous financial package for Maharashtra from the Center, to fight against deadly pandemic Coronavirus.   Drawing the attention of Modi and Sitharaman to economic indicators and strategy to overcome the crisis faced by Maharashtra, Pawar in the letter dated April 25 has suggested the Centre should extend the National Small Savings Fund Loan (NSSF) repayment by two years and additional grants of Rs 1 lakh crore should be given to the…

Coronavirus pandemic is going to bring various scope and opportunities in India post COVID-19 . New model adopted by India’s number 1 IT company TCS, called 25/25 will require far less office space.   Decision came after the firm briskly moved 90% of its workforce to an operating model called secure borderless work spaces.   The crisis has provided an opportunity to India’s largest IT firm to discard its 20-year-old operating model and leapfrog into a new mode of work. A new report says, 75% of 4.5 lakh TCS employees to permanently…

Senior Congress leader and Ahmedabad corporator Badruddin Shaikh succumbed to the coronavirus on Sunday. Badruddin Shaikh was admitted to SVP Hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat eight days ago.   The Congress leader’s condition deteriorated after he tested positive for Covid-19. After battling the infection for eight days, Badruddin Shaikh succumbed to it.   Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil condoled the death of Badruddin Shaikh. Taking to Twitter, Shaktisinh Gohil said, “My friend #Badru was a true #CoronaWarrior . He got infected with #coronavirus whilst helping poor people in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat .He is a big loss to our @INCGujarat family as he succumbed to #Covid_19. Lesson for all: Please take care and co operate with…

On April 15, Delhi’s Max Super Speciality Hospital announced that it would test all its workers and the 33 cases were found during this process, including two doctors, who had tested positive for COVID-19 so far, the hospital spokesperson said on Monday.   “As part of our ongoing routine COVID-19 testing for all healthcare workers, admitted patients and new admissions, a total of 33 healthcare workers have tested positive since the exercise began earlier this month”, the hospital group was quoted saying.   “All of them have been shifted to our COVID-only Max Hospital, Saket, east wing,” it said.   The daily reported quoting an unidentified health department official that the hospital began contract tracing of the hospital staff after a…

Amid COVID-19, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) may soon resume flight operations but with strict restrictions and curbs in place. Face masks are mandatory for all travellers and crew members, no queues for security clearance, restricted use of in-flight lavatories and a stop on all in-flight meals said, senior officials, which have been recommended by stakeholders to the Union Aviation Ministry recently, may mean that it would take a little longer than usual for flyers to get through security checks.   It has been a month since India suspended all…

Amid the fight with pandemic Coronavirus, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in its latest order, issued on Friday night, permitted the shops providing non-essential goods and services to open from Saturday (April 25) onwards. With the latest order from the government, the registered neighbourhood and stand-alone shops have been permitted to open amid the coronavirus lockdown. The shops that are allowed to open during the coronavirus lockdown include those located in residential complexes within and outside the limits of municipalities and municipal areas. However, market complexes within the limits…

Again India is on the global limelight, with our scientific and technology innovation, where the world famous Oxford University came forward to partner with Pune based company as one of the seven global institutions manufacturing the vaccine.   The Vaccine major Serum Institute of India on Sunday said it plans to start production of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University in the next two to three weeks and hopes to bring it to the market by October if the human clinical trials are successful.   “Our team has been…

It is truly said that users experience is better than the general innovation. Recently a driver who drives e-rickshaw driver who modified his vehicle so that passengers don’t come in physical contact with each other.  Mahindra tweeted, tagging a company executive , that we need to get him as an advisor to our R&D and product development teams.   The driver says in the video, a man is heard calling the design “corona innovation”.   Anand Mahindra posted a video of an e-rickshaw driver who has compartmentalised his vehicle in a…