khaskhabar: March 2021

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Pentagon issues new rules overturning Trump’s ban on transgender troops.

By BY HELENE COOPER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3m7LIgk

Man Is Charged With Smuggling in Crash That Killed 13 Migrants in California

By BY JACEY FORTIN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3rEXTT2

Jill Biden, in California, Lends Support to Farmworkers Seeking Vaccinations

By BY KATIE ROGERS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3fwmzL9

Investigators say a Trump aide took it upon himself to award hefty pandemic contracts.

By BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG from NYT World https://ift.tt/3sFiKHh

40 Years After Reagan, a Bet Big Government Can Get Something Done

By BY DAVID E. SANGER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3sHDwWz

Clerk Who Questioned $20 Bill Watched Floyd Arrest With ‘Disbelief and Guilt’

By BY JOHN ELIGON, SHAILA DEWAN, TIM ARANGO AND NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3rG9Ac0

Investment Firm’s Collapse Put Unseen Risks on Full Display

By BY MATT PHILLIPS from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3fwm9EE

Matt Gaetz investigado por posible tráfico sexual, según fuentes

By BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, KATIE BENNER AND NICHOLAS FANDOS from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/31zxH1N

Nationals Player Tests Positive for Virus Before Opening Day

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3dl8Ioh

Maharashtra government suspends MTR Field Director Srinivas Reddy over suicide of forest officer

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/3wjhwn6

Official to probe marks scam: Govt

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/3sJIdiW

Gujarat: 147 cases under GPID Act in 4 yrs

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/3dgpMvq

Auto debit rule: New deadline is September 30

In August 2019, RBI had issued a framework for processing of e-mandates on recurring online transactions. Initially applicable to cards and wallets, the framework was extended in January 2020 to cover Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions as well.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3dmj6Mp

Vaccine access: Need to carefully examine tools like ‘patent pause’ to ensure access to Covid-19 vaccines for poorer nations

Twelve billion—that’s the number of doses needed in a two-dose regime if 80% of the world’s population is to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/2QMy8U2

Covid-19 pandemic impact: A tech-tonic shift

The pandemic year has brought to the fore some exponential technological changes that are about to change our lives fundamentally

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3mcD40m

Rational Expectations: Can’t let PLI scheme go bust, nurture it

This includes carrying over FY21’s PLI due to force majeure, allowing Chinese players in & ensuring WTO compatibility

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3dsHrjX

As Cuomo Sought $4 Million Book Deal, Aides Hid Damaging Death Toll

By BY JESSE MCKINLEY, DANNY HAKIM AND ALEXANDRA ALTER from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3sHjv2D

Factory Mix-Up Ruins Up to 15 Million Vaccine Doses From Johnson & Johnson

By BY SHARON LAFRANIERE AND NOAH WEILAND from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2OaIH2l

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Meets Skepticism, Signaling Fight to Come

By BY EMILY COCHRANE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/39uyzsG

As Virus and Economic Woes Ravage Brazil, Bolsonaro Improvises and Confounds

By BY ERNESTO LONDOÑO AND LETÍCIA CASADO from NYT World https://ift.tt/3sBzTBA

Biden bets that tackling climate change will create jobs, not kill them.

By BY CORAL DAVENPORT, NOAM SCHEIBER AND LISA FRIEDMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3u7EV9p

As devastating video played in court, George Floyd’s brother was there to watch.

By BY TIM ARANGO from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3rEcYV3

Minnesota Court Ruling Fuels Calls to Change Sexual Assault Law

By BY CHRISTINA MORALES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2PmXKXn

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

The rising importance of the middle class in India

India would soon have a middle class that is proportionately as large as that of the US today. The government is unlikely to be able to provide the quantity and quality of services that will be demanded, even in areas like health, education and water that have evolved as public-sector areas in other countries. India will have to adopt hybrid systems, with private and public service providers

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3uc7ORB

‘It Wasn’t Right’: Young Witnesses Offer Emotional Testimony in Chauvin Trial

By BY JOHN ELIGON, TIM ARANGO AND NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/31Bsuq9

The Morning

By Unknown Author from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3m7kaYL

Baseball’s back, so teams are deciding whether their stadiums will continue to serve as vaccination venues.

By BY MADELEINE NGO from NYT World https://ift.tt/2PK1H8s

G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90

By BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2PdkRnn

Biden to call for increase in corporate taxes to pay for $2 trillion infrastructure plan.

By BY JIM TANKERSLEY AND EMILY COCHRANE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2PK1EJO

Democrats debate their strategy for pushing through voting rights legislation.

By BY NICHOLAS FANDOS AND MICHAEL WINES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2QOvhdj

Biden to Pay for Infrastructure Plan With 15 Years of Corporate Taxes

By BY JIM TANKERSLEY AND EMILY COCHRANE from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3wmgmaP

Chauvin Trial: Day 2 Key Moments

By BY CHRISTINA KELSO AND LUCAS LILIEHOLM from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3sGx3Ly

‘No Place for a Child’: Inside the Tent Camp Housing Thousands of Migrant Children

By BY MIRIAM JORDAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3wea64D

NCP-UML leaders call on party workers to oppose ‘dictator’ Oli

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/2Oao0ni

Horoscope Today, March 31, 2021: Sagittarius, Leo, Aries and other signs — check astrological prediction

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/2PDRIBs

Bankruptcy Code: The God that is failing…

To save the IBC, get the lenders to commit to the revival process, strengthen the RP system, and set very well-defined timelines to judges at NCLT

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/2PGeusn

Don’t water it down: Without getting prices right, water scarcity can’t be tackled

India’s per capita water availability has fallen from 5,178 cubic meters per day in 1951 to 1,544 in 2011 and is projected to fall to 1,140 by 2050.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/2Pp1TtL

Chinese whispers: WHO-China joint probe, as was expected, leaves nobody any wiser about SARS CoV-2’s origins

If the long delay wasn’t reason enough for any such probe to remain inconclusive, the fact that the probe was constantly under the shadow of the Chinese government should have been an indicator of the futility of undertaking any such exercise.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/2PD4X5n

Growth Hurdles: Tackling India’s core structural vulnerability

The bulk of the units in agriculture and industry being sub-scale is a major problem. Need to ‘mimic scale’ through clusters/FPOs and ensure access to formal credit

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/31AmDBf

Scenes from Day 2 of the Derek Chauvin trial.

By Unknown Author from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3u5Gx3q

State Dept. Reverses Trump Policies on Reproductive and Religious Freedoms

By BY LARA JAKES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2QTy5WL

Democrats Splinter Over Strategy for Pushing Through Voting Rights Bill

By BY NICHOLAS FANDOS AND MICHAEL WINES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cBxJwr

After a day of emotional testimony, here’s what experts expect next.

By BY ANDRÉS R. MARTÍNEZ AND MARIE FAZIO from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dhqwkg

State Dept. Reverses Trump Policies on Reproductive and Religious Freedoms

By BY LARA JAKES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3sBmcTa

Biden Announces Actions to Combat Anti-Asian Attacks

By BY ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dj8NbX

How to Stop Schools That Prey on Veterans

By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2PklUBQ

Monday, 29 March 2021

New Zealand vs Bangladesh 2nd T20I Live Streaming: When and where to watch?

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/2PFyvPM

Horoscope Today, March 30: Gemini, Cancer, Taurus, and other signs — check astrological prediction

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/2QTzo8d

KP Oli suspends rebel leaders from Nepal ruling party

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/31yK6mg

Road map: NHAI maiden InvIT in April, to raise close to Rs 5,000 crore

“We are targeting to launch our first InvIT within April 15. We will file the memorandum with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) before March end,” Sandhu told FE.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3fqiMz2

Banks Face Billions in Losses as a Bet on ViacomCBS and Other Stocks Goes Awry

By BY KATE KELLY, MATT PHILLIPS, ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AND ALEXANDRA STEVENSON from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2QQLgrq

A reporter in Minneapolis breaks down Day 1 of the trial.

By Unknown Author from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ryoAc9

And the winner is . . .

By BY ERIC NAGOURNEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/3u99hbl

Democrats start preparing a path for Biden’s spending plans, but it will be a bumpy one.

By BY JIM TANKERSLEY AND EMILY COCHRANE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Phnqog

MP: BJP’s youth wing leader booked for rape and blackmail

from The Indian Express https://ift.tt/3fCtAKD

Covid Blues: Growth worries grip amid new wave of coronavirus

Curfews, localised lockdowns hit mobility; business resumption plans affected too

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/2PkXBnl

Covid-19: How India fared during lockdown

Ten facts on India’s urban employment during the pandemic and the lockdown

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/3szFlVN

Public-Private Partnership: NHAI may take BOT route for new projects

Though it has not yet fixed the project target for the next fiscal, NHAI is likely to keep the target at 4,500 km, same as the current fiscal. Till February of the current financial year, NHAI has awarded around 3,600 km highway projects in which EPC has around 60% share while the remaining has gone through the hybrid annuity model (HAM).

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/39qKlnZ

Rational Expectations: Vital to understand costs of ‘net-zero’

Electricity costs will rise as subsidies have to go; lakhs of jobs will go if aggressive moves not made on hydrogen to replace coal/oil.

from The Financial Express https://ift.tt/39omuVO