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Business and economy Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 recession COVID-19 pandemic in Australia The economy officially enters a recession for the first time since 1991 after the Bureau of Statistics reports a 7% decline in GDP over the second quarter, the largest fall since records began in 1959. (9 News) Disasters and accidents 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Tropical Storm ...
[citation needed] On 25 September 2020 farm unions all over India called for a Bharat Bandh (lit. transl. nation-wide shutting down) to protest against these farm laws. [130] The most widespread protests took place in Punjab , Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh [ 131 ] but demonstrations were also reported in Uttar Pradesh , Karnataka , [ 132 ...
On 11 March 2020, the Cabinet Secretary of India, Rajiv Gauba, announced that all states and UTs should invoke provisions of Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] On 14 March, the union government declared the pandemic as a "notified disaster" under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 , enabling states to spend a larger part ...
India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to plug important data gaps in his third term ...
By 13 September 2020 economic activity was nearly back to pre-lockdown. [1] Unemployment rose from 6.7% on 15 March to 26% on 19 April and then back down to pre-lockdown levels by mid-June. [2] [3] During the lockdown, an estimated 140 million (140 million) people lost employment while salaries were cut for many others.
The problem of undercounting resonates in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site of a mammoth debacle that was supposed to transform the World Bank’s approach to development and displacement. In 1985, the bank pledged $450 million to finance the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal, the keystone of an effort to turn the Narmada River into a series of ...
National income - ₹ 197,456,704 million 5 January – 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack 11 January – Bombay High Court stayed a Sessions Court order by Sessions Judge Dinesh Eknath Kothalikar made on Nov 2019 which restored criminal case against Adani Enterprises, its chairman Gautam Adani and managing director Rajesh Adani for carrying out share rigging in connivance with Ketan ...
Business and economy Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 recession COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil The Brazilian economy officially enters a recession after the country's statistics institute reported a 9.7% decline of its gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter, which is the second consecutive quarter of a decline in its GDP. It is Brazil's largest quarterly drop since ...