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The US owes India $216 billion as American debt soars to $29 trillion

The US owes India $216 billion as American debt soars to $29 trillion

The United States is the world’s largest economy, owes India $216 billion as the country’s debt grows to a record $29 trillion, warning the leadership about the imposition of foreign debt, the largest from China and Japan. By 2020, the US national debt was $23.4 trillion, that is $72,309 per person. “We will grow our […]

COVID VACCINE JAP CAPPED AT RS 250 AT PRIVATE HOPITALS: GOVERNMENT

India initially has decided to provide the vaccine to the 1.15 crore health workers and the frontline workers started from January 16th. 2021. After a substantial time passed, government has now decided to widen the coverage crossing the decided limit of 1.15 crore workers. The Coronavirus vaccine has been capped at Rs 250 per shot […]

RBI grants Rupee Co-operative Bank an extension

The RBI has issued the Rupee Co-operative Bank Ltd, Pune, a three-month extension of its banking license, according to Sudhir Pandit, the bank’s administrator. “It is recognition by RBI of the Bank’s satisfactory results, and that too despite complete restrictions on bank’s activities,” Pandit said. During the last four years, the bank has made a […]

Prepared to handle any responsibility given by government: IIFCL MD

The union budget 2021-2022 presented in Parliament earlier this month has proposed to set up a DFI (Development Finance Institution) with an initial capital of Rs.20,000 crores to fund the Rs 111 lakh crores’ ambitious National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP). India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited managing director PR Jaishankar said that the company is prepared to […]

Reliance acquires majority stakes in skyTran

Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has increased its stake in SkyTran, a company that develops pod taxis in the United States. In a statement released on Sunday, the company said it had increased its stake to 54.46 percent on a fully diluted basis with a $26.76 million investment. […]

E-Commerce looks for an opening in India’s trade basket

India’s coming foreign trade exchange strategy may have a different section managing online business interestingly in the midst of requests for aiding a huge number of producers become exporters, said three people familiar with the development. A few E- business firms, including Amazon India, Walmart Inc., eBay, PayPal and industry bodies FICCI and CII have […]

US Authorizes Johnson & Johnson Vaccine for Covid 19 Emergency

The U.S. government on Saturday authorised Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions of Americans to be vaccinated within the approaching weeks and setting it up for extra approvals around the world. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the emergency to use authorisation for adults aged 18 and older following Friday’s unanimous endorsement […]

Facebook Launches Short Video App ‘BARS’

Facebook’s internal research and development group, New Product Experimentation (NPE) has launched its next experimental application, called BARS. This is the NPE Team’s second launch in the music space following its recent public debut of the music video app ‘Collab’. BARS makes it possible for certain content creators to create and share their raps using […]

Chinese hacker groups target at least dozen Indian organisations

According to a new study, Chinese state-sponsored groups have infiltrated the computer networks of at least a dozen Indian state-run organisations, primarily power utilities and load dispatch centres, in an attempt to insert malware that could cause widespread disruptions. According to the study by Recorded Future, a US-based company that tracks the use of the […]

Heathrow plans to charge passengers to cover the cost of the Covid pandemic

As the covid crisis depresses air travel, London’s Heathrow airport will charge departing passengers an additional 8.90 pounds ($12.40) to recoup costs. The tariff has been approved by the UK’s aviation regulator as part of a protocol that allows the hub to cover costs such as electricity, luggage, and check-in services. According to a statement […]