With Covid-19 cases rising in Bengaluru, the Indian Air Force has decided to establish a 100-bed Covid treatment facility at its Air Force Station in Jalahalli.
A special long-term repo operations has been announced for small finance banks worth Rs 10,000 crore under a special long-term repo operations to lend to MFIs amid COVID-19 crises
Investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines has been named as the winner of 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
The Delhi government will provide financial assistance of Rs 5,000 to auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers in the city to help them tide over the COVID-19 crisis.