FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces 1.7 lakh crore relief package for poor amid COVID-19 crisis

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a slew of significant measures to deal with the economic distress caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed to deal with the situation. The development comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week had constituted a task force headed […]