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The amount of Rs 18,000 crore will be provided over the Budget Estimates for 2020-21 through additional allocation and extra budgetary resources.

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mount of Rs 8,100 crore, Rs 6,000 crore has been earmarked for PPP projects in the economic infrastructure segment and remaining Rs 2,100 crore for social infrastructure projects, said an official release after the Cabinet meeting.

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have said that their vaccine candidate has been found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19.

The Finance Ministry wrote on Twitter that the money was released by the government to the 14 states as monthly instalment of post-devolution revenue deficit grant.

BSES discoms, BRPL and BYPL, are fully geared up for the high demand in winter months, a company spokesperson said.

Professor Peter Horby, co-chief investigator of the RECOVERY trial, said: "We felt it was particularly important to add aspirin to the trial since there is a clear rationale for believing that it might be beneficial and it is safe, inexpensive and widely...

It added that an offence under the SC/ST Act would be made out when a member of the vulnerable section of the Society is subjected to "indignities, humiliations and harassment" in any place within public view.

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Both the accused are absconding and police teams are raiding various places to arrest them.

Finance Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said whatever accounting and record keeping rules for LTC are there for employees, the same would apply for LTC cash voucher scheme.

Lack of coordination and understanding the exact detailed requirement of SPG has been an issue behind the changes made in Prime Minister's security.

The notification for the bypolls will be issued on November 11, the EC said in a statement. As is the usual practice, the counting of votes will take place a hour after voting is completed.

The report further said 915 (25 per cent) candidates have declared serious criminal cases while in the previous Bihar assembly polls in 2015, 796 (23 per cent) candidates had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

The Supreme Court, in its directions in February, had asked political parties to give reasons for selecting candidates with criminal background and why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected as candidates.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the poll results since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections showed that the BJP can be defeated and hoped that Bihar results will prove it.