The Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre of IIT Kanpur has launched Mission Bharat O2, a 45-day open challenge for manufacturing high-quality indigenous, rapidly scalable oxygen generation units to help combat the emergency.
The government allowed hospitals, dispensaries and COVID-19 care centres to accept cash payments in excess of Rs 2 lakh from patients or their kin till May 31.
The Haryana Police has come up with "COVID-19 Hospital Transport Service" for free transportation of needy infected patients from their homes to hospitals or nursing homes and back.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan remotely flagged off the first supply of UCO, Used Cooking Oil based Biodiesel blended Diesel from Indian Oil's Tikrikalan Terminal, Delhi.
Around 581 Pressure Swing Adsorption medical oxygen plants will be installed in various states and NHAI will be the nodal agency for executing civil and electrical work for these facilities.
The RBI has constituted committee headed by SBI Managing Director S Janakiraman, the advisory group will assist the RRA 2.0 by identifying regulations, guidelines, and returns that can be rationalised.