Government policies
EPFO announces 8.5% interest rate for 2020-21
04 Mar 2021
Govt responds over ‘Koo” as Twitter quotes own laws
15 Feb 2021
In response to IT ministry’s directive to take out 1,178 Twitter accounts that were being handled by 'Khalistani' and 'Pakistani’ entities for spreading misinformation using the farmers' protests, Twitter sought to engage IT ministry officials to push its own “rules’
Sitaraman budgets for wellbeing – fiscal and physical
05 Feb 2021
The budget proposes substantial increase in investment in health infrastructure and increase in the outlay for health and wellbeing to Rs2,23,846 crore in 2021-22 against Rs94,452 crore in the current fiscal
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