July 29 marks the 116th Birth Anniversary of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, popularly known as J.R.D Tata who was more than just an industrialist. Tata was a visionary man who strongly believed in the welfare of employees. JRD was the son of eminent businessman Ratani Dada Dadabhoy Tata and Suzanne Briere. Interestingly, is mother was the first woman in India to drive a car.
https://ift.tt/2ZVMCSX WASHINGTON — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage. The new president’s vision for flushing cash to individuals, businesses, states and cities battered by COVID-19 passed on a near party-line 219-212 vote early Saturday. That ships the massive measure to the Senate, where Democrats seem bent on resuscitating their minimum wage push and fights could erupt over state aid and other issues. Democrats said the still-faltering economy and the half-million American lives lost demanded quick, decisive action. GOP lawmakers, they said, were out of step with a public that polling shows largely views the bill favorably. “I am a happy camper tonight,” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said Friday. “This is what America needs. Republicans, you ought to be a part of this. But if you’re not,
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