by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on August 9, 2020, launched a Rs 1-lakh-crore central financing scheme under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund aimed at helping farmers and agri-entrepreneurs for setting up storage and processing facilities, so that farmers can get...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
Acclaimed Urdu poet Rahat Indori, 70, died of a heart attack at the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on August 11, 2020, while being treated for COVID-19. He was buried at Chhoti Khajrani graveyard in Indore’s Nanda Nagar. He is...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
On August 9, 2020, former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, 74, was sworn in as the country’s prime minister for the fourth time after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections. He was first elected prime minister in 2004 and again...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
Transparent Taxation Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on August 13, 2020, launched the platform ‘Transparent Taxation – Honouring the Honest’ aimed at easing compliance and expediting refunds, thus benefiting honest taxpayers. The unveiling took place via video...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached a landmark accord brokered and sealed by President Trump on August 13, 2020, marking the third Israel-Arab peace deal since Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948, after Egypt and Jordan. This could presage a...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 20, 2020 | News in Brief
In order to find an answer to the question as to why some Covid-19 cases are more severe than others? A study by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and at Emory University, the University of Hong Kong, and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong,...
