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US Senate, White House Reach Deal On $2 Trillion Coronavirus Rescue Package
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Key Highlights- The Senate and White House have reached a deal on a $2 trillion stimulus package for the US economy and millions of Americans ravaged by the coronavirus crisis, the top Republican lawmaker said early.
- "At last, we have a deal," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, citing the massive "wartime level of investment into our nation."
UK Extends Visas Until May 31 For Indians, Others Stuck Due To COVID-19
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Key Highlights- The UK announced the extension of all expiring or expired visas of foreign nationals, including Indians, who are unable to return home due to the coronavirus pandemic until May 31.
- Home Secretary Priti Patel said no enforcement action will be taken against anyone caught up due to the current stringent travel restrictions and that certain categories, such as overseas students from countries like India, would be temporarily allowed to switch their visas from within the UK instead of the usual application rules of applying from their home countries.
UN Council Meets By Videoconference - With A Few Hiccups
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Key Highlights- The UN Security Council met for the first time in its history via videoconference due to the coronavirus crisis but diplomats said the meeting was not without technical difficulties.
- The meeting informal talks on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo was meant to serve as a test run, one diplomat said, and thus was not listed on any official agenda.
Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt Predicts COVID-19 To Soon Go Away
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Key Highlights- A prediction by Stanford University biophysicist and Nobel laureate Michael Levitt that new coronavirus is set to disappear soon as the world observes social distancing has given a booster shot to the world that is currently reeling under the pandemic.
- Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, earlier predicted about the epidemic in China that it would get through the worst of its devastating outbreak before several other health experts predicted.
National
Bengal Industrialist Offers Luxury Bungalows To Government To Fight Covid-19
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Key Highlights- Kolkata-based industrialist Harshavardhan Neotia has offered 30 luxury bungalows in South 24 Parganas to the state government to be used in the fight to contain the novel coronavirus crisis.
- The state government has accepted the offer and the sub-divisional officer of Diamond Harbour has been in touch with the authorities to take charge of the facility in a day or two, Mr. Neotia said.
Attorney General KK Venugopal creates online access to antiquarian book collection
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Key Highlights- The Centre’s top law officer, attorney general KK Venugopal, digitally scanned 591 of his antiquarian book collection dating from the 17th century and uploaded them on the website www.kkvlibrary.com to make it available to everyone.
- The books cover a wide range of topics from religion, mythology, Vedas, Indian art and sculpture, historical battles, travel and British Empire in India.
PM Modi’s cabinet meeting, a glimpse of social distancing
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Key Highlights- Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the weekly cabinet meeting at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi. During the meeting, the ministers were seen seated at a distance from each other, maintaining social distancing as a measure to counter coronavirus.
- In his address to the nation last evening as well as last week, the prime minister emphasized the need to maintain social distancing to keep coronavirus in check. At least a distance of one metre must be maintained to ensure safety from the infection.
At G-20 meet tomorrow, PM Modi’s push to turn Covid-19 into global fight
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Key Highlights- Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants the G-20 conference tomorrow to turn the battle against the deadly Sars-CoV-2 pathogen into a global fight where participant countries pool in their medical knowledge and resources to block the spread of contagion, people familiar with the developments said.
- Rather than be confined to the 15-member UN Security Council currently headed by China, the G-20 is a representative body of 46 countries (if the European Union is divided into individual entities) with a large number of them battered by the rampaging infection.
Education
Bengal Industrialist Offers Luxury Bungalows To Government To Fight Covid-19
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Key Highlights- Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) declared the result of the Class 12 board examination on its official website. Students who have appeared in the board examination can check their results online at onlinebseb.in or biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in.
- The BSEB had held the intermediate board examination between February 3 and 13, 2020, for which around 12 lakh students had appeared at 1283 centers spread across the state. After the declaration of the results, 9 lakh students have passed.
Checking Bihar board BSEB intermediate 12th result 2020 made easy
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Key Highlights- Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has declared the result of Class 12 board or intermediate examination.
- The declaration of Bihar board inter result was not delayed despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
- The results have been declared for arts, science and commerce streams. BSEB chairman Anand Kishor announced the result online without holding a press conference.
Banking
A banking crisis could return without timely forbearance
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Key Highlights- Nurture the fractured real sector to health and only a healthy financial sector can make that happen.
Indian banks seek easier loan repayment, NPA classification due to Covid-19
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Key Highlights- IBA has made a five-point wish-list for the consideration of the RBI, and the request to defer term-loan installments for six months tops that charter of demands.
- Also on the list is an extension of the time period for classification of NPAs on short term loans like cash credits and overdraft and guarantees like letters of credit (LCs) from the present 90 days to 180 days.
Sports
Tokyo postponement has ‘no impact’ on Paris 2024 Olympics, says organiser
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Key Highlights- The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic will have “no impact” on the Paris Games, which will go ahead as scheduled in “summer 2024”, the head of the organising committee Tony Estanguet told AFP.
- The 2020 Games were delayed until “no later than summer 2021” by the IOC and Japanese Prime Minister Sinzo Abe earlier, but Estanguet said the first postponement of an Olympics during peacetime would not affect the Paris edition, which will now be staged three years after the Tokyo event.
Awards
Author Ruchika Tomar wins PEN/Hemingway Award 2020
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Key Highlights- Indian-origin American author Ruchika Tomar is named as the winner of the annual PEN/Hemingway Award 2020 for her 1st novel (debut) ”A Prayer for Travelers”.
- She hails from California & is currently working as a lecturer at Stanford University.
Zoya Akhter honoured with IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 held in Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Key Highlights- Zoya Akhter honoured with IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 during the 8th India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) held in Mumbai, Maharashtra on March 5-7, 2020.
- The award was presented by NaheedNenshi– Mayor of Calgary, Alberta (Canada) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to world tourism through her cinema.
Appt
IndusInd Bank MD & CEO Romesh Sobti retires
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Key Highlights- Private sector lender IndusInd Bank Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ramesh Sobti, 70 years old, retired.
- The bank’s consumer head, Sumant Kathpalia will serve as the MD and CEO of IndusInd bank for the period of 3 years.
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