Day: March 13, 2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini, the traditional leader of South Africa’s Zulu nation, has died aged 72 after being hospitalised for more than a month, his family announced Friday.

Senior European Union leaders have agreed to target China with sanctions over its human rights abuses, blacklisting four people and one entity in Xinjiang, according to several diplomats.

More than 500 promises including reduction of petrol, diesel and Aavin milk price and setting up a special court to try corrupt AIADMK ministers were part of the DMK manifesto which was released today.

In a move aimed to benefit daily wager earners, the Indian Railways on Thursday said that it has ensured 100 per cent compliance of payment of minimum wages to contract workers through its e-application.

Industry body FICCI has urged the government to include the retail industry in the list of ‘frontline workers’ and among the early recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess expects that many of its customer industries will recover and therefore anticipates EBITDA pre exceptionals of between EUR 900 million and EUR 1 billion for the full year.

WebWerks, an independent data center provider, announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Iron Mountain, who will invest US$150 mn primary equity into WebWerks over the next two years.

Maruti Suzuki Driving School (MSDS) said it has trained more than 1.5 million applicants in safe driving.

VLCC has it will cover the cost of Covid-19 vaccination for all its over 4,000 employees in India and 13 other countries where it has direct company-managed operations.

With 24,882 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 1,13,33,728 today. Also, this is the highest daily rise so far this year.