Government policies
Expert panel to meet farm groups on Thursday
21 Jan 2021
Govt, Amazon Web Service team up to set up quantum computing lab
21 Jan 2021
The world’s first quantum computing applications lab on Amazon Web Service to support a national government’s mission, the initiative will help advance developments in science and technology and bolster economy
Govt asks WhatsApp not to impose terms on Indian users
21 Jan 2021
WhatsApp’s proposed new privacy policy allows it to collect and share highly invasive and granular metadata, such as time, frequency and duration of interactions, group names, payments and transaction data, online status, location indicators, as well as any messages shared by users with business accounts with other Facebook companies
PM launches pan India rollout of Covid-19 vaccination drive
21 Jan 2021
India will target more than 300 million people in the first two phases of the vaccination drive, including 10 million health workers and 20 million frontline workers covered in the first phase, and 270 million 50-plus people and under 50-years category with co-morbid conditions in the second phase
Cabinet approves procurement of 83 LCA ‘Tejas’ aircraft for IAF
21 Jan 2021
About 500 Indian companies, including MSMEs in the design and manufacturing sectors, will be working with HAL in this procurement and the programme will act as a catalyst for transforming the Indian aerospace manufacturing ecosystem
Supreme Court stays all 3 farm laws until further orders
21 Jan 2021
The three-judge bench comprising CJI SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian announced the setting up of an exper committee that will also be part of judicial proceedings
India to kick-start Covid-19 vaccination drive with SII vaccine
04 Jan 2021
The expert committee of the central drug regulator has asked Bharat Biotech to speed up its phase 3 clinical trials and return with more data while Pfizer-BioNTech has sought more time to produce data
Govt offers to talk with protesting farmers without conditions
01 Dec 2020
The central government says that the new farm laws are meant for farmers’ welfare while the farmers content that the laws will weaken the APMC system, leaving them vulnerable to corporate interests