TORONTO — Canadian lawmakers voted Monday night to extend the emergency powers that police can invoke to quell any potential restart of blockades by those opposed to COVID-19 restrictions. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier that the powers were still needed despite police ending the occupation of the nation’s capital by truckers over the weekend and police ending border blockades …
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday voted to end Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic disaster emergency declaration and to extend hundreds of regulatory waivers his administration approved over the last 15 months. The Wolf administration maintains that dissolving the disaster emergency does not affect a health secretary’s disease-prevention authority to issue mask-wearing and stay-at-home orders or shut down schools …
India’s largest lender State Bank of India on Friday decided to extend an emergency credit line to eligible corporate borrowers and small businesses to meet their liquidity needs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a document seen by Mint. The document, an internal SBI circular issued on Friday, said that the Covid-19 emergency credit line will be …
