Sindri’s natural-gas-based fertilizer unit had been facing the challenge of being completed on time, but now it looks all set to be completed soon. The initial hiccup that the fertilizer factory of Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Limited (HURL) was facing due to the lockdown has been resolved. And the installation work of the Rs 6500 crore factory is back on time. According to officials, 79 per cent of the project was completed by October 2020. The factory will start production by August 2021 if the work continues at the same pace. The HURL fertilizer plant is a joint venture project…
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The number of people overcoming Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand crossed the 1 lakh mark on Wednesday as over 300 patients recovered from the lethal infection in 24 hours, taking the recovery rate up at 95.32 per cent in the state, government data highlighted. Meanwhile, at least three more Covid-19 patients died in Jharkhand on Wednesday while the number of active cases dropped close to 4000 as the recoveries outnumbered fresh cases on the day, data compiled by the health department stated. As per figures with the health department, at least 1,00,302 Covid patients have recovered from the infection in Jharkhand…
The Jharkhand government is unlikely to hold a grand celebration on the 20th Statehood Day and instead only organise a ritualistic ceremony with limited guests for the first time since the formation of the state on November 15, 2000, a senior secretary rank official, in the thick of affairs said on Wednesday. The decision of holding a low-key Statehood Day ceremony was taken in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, said the official. Unlike the past years, the government will not invite special performers from other states this time around to perform in Ranchi during the Statehood Day celebrations, he…
The Jharkhand assembly has unanimously passed a resolution seeking the inclusion of Sarna as a separate religion in census, 2021. Chief minister Hemant Soren said the resolution, passed during a special one-day assembly session on Wednesday, will now be sent to the centre for approval. The opposition parties gave a proposal demanding a discussion on the resolution, which speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato accepted. BJP legislators proposed an amendment to the resolution seeking removal of the oblique from ‘tribal/Sarna’ word in it. Soren said his government is sensitive to people’s sentiments and accepted the amendment, after which all the parties supported…
YouTube on November 11 announced that it had fixed a technical glitch that triggered a mass outage of its video-streaming service worldwide impacting nearly 286,000 users. The firm owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google GOOGL.O, said late on Wednesday in a tweet that the issue which hampered the website at around 6:53 PM ET (23:53 GMT) was fixed across all devices and YouTube services. “We`re so sorry for the interruption, thanks for being patient with us,” it added in a tweet. If you were seeing errors in YouTube Studio in the last hour when trying to upload, go live, manage, edit videos, etc,…
TikTok has moved a federal court seeking a stay on an order signed by US President Donald Trump which asked the video-sharing app to restructure its ownership to fall in line with the country’s security concerns. According to the executive orders signed by Trump in August, ByteDance owned app has until Thursday, November 12 to sell off its US operations to American companies. The Chinese company is seeking the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to evaluate Trump’s divestment order and the government’s national-security review. Earlier in September Trump gave his tentative consent to a ByteDance proposal meant to settle the US national security concerns…
China has yet again expressed its displeasure over the growing relations between the United States and Taiwan. This time, Beijing is irked over the upcoming US-Taiwan economic partnership dialogue and has called on Washington to ‘stop exchange or contacts’ with Taipei It has further asked the US to stop elevating its relationship with Taiwan in any substantive way. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Webin, while addressing a briefing on Monday, urged the US to adhere to the one-China principle. Later in the month, Taiwan will be sending a delegation to the US for the inaugural meeting of the US-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue. US…
The 46th US President-elect Joe Biden on November 12 utilised his first calls with leaders of Japan, South Korea and Australia and reaffirmed plans to form close ties to tackle issues including climate change and regional security. Biden spoke to Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Australian PM Scott Morrison. His office said that all four sides expressed their determination to strengthen bilateral ties as well as tackle global issues such as coronavirus pandemic and climate change. According to the press release, the former US vice president spoke to Australian PM Scott Morrison by telephone and…
United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric during a press conference on Wednesday, November 11 said that the global organisation is experiencing a severe shortage of funds. He further added that it may be left with greater outstanding contributions by the end of 2020 as compared to 2019. Earlier in October, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had informed that the organisation is going through a severe budget crisis. He also put in a few measures to help the crisis, which included restricting the travel of staff, limiting heating and air-conditioning services and adjusting hiring practices to curtail spending. In a media statement last month,…
On November 11, Georgia’s top election official announced that there will be ‘full by-hand recount in each county’ as requested by the Trump campaign. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a press address that the hand recount will restore confidence in the electoral process, adding, that it will be an audit, a recount and a recanvass all put together. Raffensperger added that though it would be a mammoth task to recount with hand 5 million ballots, he will work with counties to get the state certification in time. While Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden won the state of Georgia as per…