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Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the Kerala-based Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology has developed a low-cost diagnostic test kit that can confirm COVID-19 in two hours.The diagnostic test kit developed by the Thiruvananthapuram...
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The Maharashtra government has decided to resume online registration and stamp duty of sale and purchase of properties, as per directives of a cabinet sub-committee headed by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. It was also decided that 25 per cent of district plan, tribal and SC sub-plan funds will...
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The home ministry has asked all states and UTs to screen Rohingya Muslims living in their jurisdiction for Covid-19 as many of them had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, officials said on Friday.In a communication to chief secretaries and directors general of...
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The number of COVID-19 patients in Mumbai rose to 2,120 on Friday with 77 more persons testing coronavirus positive, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.The death toll in the megapolis due to the pandemic reached 121 on Friday, as five more persons succumbed to the...
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A group of migrants walk to their villages near the Delhi-UP border. Photograph: Ravi Choudhary/PTI Photo
The Maharashtra government has decided to allow over one lakh migrant sugarcane workers to return to their native villages amid the lockdown subject to the carrying out of medical tests in connection with the coronavirus outbreak, state Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde said on...
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In the second time in a week, Kerala reported a lone COVID-19 case on Friday, taking the active cases to 138 while 78,000 people are under observation.The solitary case is from Kozhikode.On April 15, the state had reported only one case of coronavirus infection, which has claimed two lives...
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10 persons were arrested in Kaiserganj area in Bahraich for gathering in mosque to offer Friday namaz in breach of the lockdown provisions, police said.Bahraich Additional Superintendent of Police Ravindra Singh said in Bairimaheshpur village some persons gathered to offer Friday prayers despite...
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The number of coronavirus cases in Mumbai's Dharavi slum area reached 101 on Friday with 15 new patients being detected, said an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.A 62-year-old COVID-19 patient from the area died at Sion hospital, he added.A total of 10 coronavirus patients...
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Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Friday urged private schools to reconsider their decisions on annual fee hike and collecting fee quarterly during the lockdown.I urge pvt schools to reconsider decisions on annual fee hike, collecting fee quarterly during...
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Angered by delay in payment of wages amid lockdown, workers of a construction firm pelted stones at its office and injured four policemen in Maharashtra's Solapur district, an official said.The incident took place outside the office of Dilip Buildcon at Junoni near Sangola on Thursday evening,...
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As many as 14 Tablighi Jamaat meet participants, including 11 Bangladeshis, were arrested after the completion of their quarantine period on Friday.The Jamaatis were arrested after the completion of their quarantine period and sent to a temporary jail set up here for them, said Bhadohi...
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A man in Aurangabad in Maharashtra has filed a complaint claiming tweets by wrestler-turned-politician Babita Phogat and actor Kangana Ranaut's sister Rangoli Chandel in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak intended to create disharmony among communities, police said on Friday.The...
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The aviation industry may take between six months to two years to recover from the severe blow dealt by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey carried out by global consultancy ICF. The survey, conducted among senior and mid-level executives from across the world between late March...
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Rahul Gandhi on Friday praised Congress-ruled states' determination to fight the coronavirus pandemic and cited a new 200-bed hospital built within 20 days in Chhattisgarh, saying where there is a will, there is a way. Congress-ruled states: Rajasthan, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Puducherry are...
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While on Maharashtra, School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said on Friday that parents can complain to district education officers if schools have demanded fees during lockdown period. In a statement, Gaikwad said the government had issued an order on March 30 that schools and other...
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The Maharashtra State Housing Department has issued instructions to landlords/ house owners to postpone rent collection by at least three months. During this period, no tenant should be evicted from the rented house due to non-payment of rent, the notification says. Please see the notification...
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Migrant labourers cycle, walk in Nagpur towards their homes in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh in the searing heat. I started my journey from Nashik five days ago and it will take another six days to reach my home, says a labourer.
16:49
Some good news coming in from Andhra Pradesh. The state has received 1 lakh COVID-19 rapid testing kits from South Korea, to increase the number of tests in the state and speed up the time taken to conduct these tests. A special chartered flight from South Korea delivered the kits to the state....
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The Union Health Ministry press briefing: -- In 19 states and Union Territories, COVID-19 case doubling rate is less than national average. These include Kerala, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Puducherry, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, TN, Andhra Pradesh , UP, Punjab,...
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A spectacularly empty Mumbai-Pune Expressway
India's fuel consumption slumped by a record 50 per cent in April as all petroleum products except LPG saw massive demand erosion following a nationwide lockdown halted economic activity and travel. According to provisional industry data for fuel consumption in the first half of April, petrol...
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China's coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 on Friday after it revised the fatality figures by 50 per cent in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, as Beijing faced mounting international criticism of under-reporting of the COVID-19 data. Citing data discrepancies, the Wuhan municipal...
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Relatives bury the body of a woman who died of COVID-19 in Delhi
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said he was deeply disturbed by news reports that locals in Meghalaya resisted the funeral of a doctor who died of COVID-19 fearing that it could further spread the disease, saying such incidents were a blot on the society's consciousness. Citing a...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government is leaving no stone unturned in the fight against COVID-19, ensuring minimum disruption in people's lives while planning for a strong and stable India in days ahead. He added that the decisions...
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Coronavirus could be spreading through farts, a doctor is warning. One medic claimed people may be passing the deadly disease on to others through omitting bodily gasses -- however experts aren't so sure. Read the story here.
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday informed that no new coronavirus cases have been reported from the three locations, including Dilshad Garden for the last 15 days. Asked about the conduction of 'Operation Shield', Jain said that the Delhi government has identified a total of 60...
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A woman delivered a baby boy inside a police jeep amid the ongoing lockdown while they were on their way to a hospital in west Delhi's Khyala, police said on Friday. The pregnant woman along with her family went to the police station and met a woman constable Suman on Thursday night, they...
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The Reserve Bank has pumped Rs 1.2 lakh crore of fresh currency into the system in last 45 days since the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday. Automated teller machines and business correspondents, who take banking services to far flung areas, are also...
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Thirty patients, who had tested positive for coronavirus, were discharged from the Government Omandurar Medical College and Hospital, which is a COVID-19 Centre, in Chennai on Friday after completing their treatment. We had 95 COVID-19 positive patients. 30 out of 95 have totally recovered after...
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The government on Friday permitted export of additional 745 tonne raw sugar under its tariff-rate quota to the US which enables shipments to enjoy relatively low tariff. TRQ is a quota for a volume of exports that enter the US at relatively low tariffs. After the quota is reached, a higher...
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With 34 new coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, the state tally rose to 3,236 on Friday, informed the state Health Department. Maharashtra is one of the worst affected states in the country. It is followed by Delhi with 1640 cases. With an increase of 1,007 cases, the total number of coronavirus...
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Dr Raman Gangakhedkar is the Head Scientist of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research. Dr Gangakhedkar, a soft-spoken Maharashtrian, is currently the face of the Indian scientific community in the times of a pandemic that the world is yet to...
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Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi extended the lockdown to May 3 in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus, television channels across the country beamed visuals of a sea of migrant workers congregating at Mumbai's Bandra railway station, demanding that they be sent...
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Army Chief General MM Naravane on Friday slammed Pakistan for exporting terror at a time when India and the world were fighting the coronavirus pandemic. While we are busy not only helping our own citizens but the rest of the world too by sending medical teams and exporting medicines. On the...
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So, the answer to our 12:42 pm post is: Nirupama Menon Rao. She served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011, as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States, China and Sri Lanka (High Commissioner) during her career. She was the second woman to hold the post...
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Army Chief General MM Naravane says, so far the Indian Army has only eight positive cases, of which two are doctors and 1 is a nursing assistant. Four are responding well to treatment. One case in Ladakh is fully cured and has joined duty.
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Affordable housing will be one of the most affected sectors due to the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, according to a cross-section of industry experts. Khushru Jijina, Managing Director of Piramal Capital and Housing Finance, said blue-collar workers will be the most impacted...
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An unusual picture of the lockdown in India. These are vehicles seized by the police in Trichy after owners violated lockdown rules. Pic: ANI
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Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia
No private school will be allowed to increase fees during the coronavirus lockdown and only the tuition fee can be charged till the time schools reopen, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Friday. We have got several complaints about schools hiking fees and also...
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Sweetmeat makers in West Bengal have welcomed the state government's decision to allow their shops to operate from 8 am to 4pm, an extension from its earlier noon-4pm window, amid the lockdown imposed by the government to combat COVID-19. Several confectioners, who were sceptical about...
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It's not Thursday, but we couldn't resist posting this throwback picture. The lady is an IFS officer who served during the UPA regime. She was ambassador to China, US, Peru, Bolivia.She was a pioneer among senior officers of the Government of India in the use of social media.She's a...
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No masks, no social distancing at Kumaraswamy's son's wedding
Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, married Revathi, grand-niece of former Congress Minister for Housing, M Krishnappa, on Friday. According to sources, more than 100 people participated in the marriage ceremony held at Kumaraswamy's farmhouse in...
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Coronavirus related fatalities in the US continued to surge even as US President Donald Trump announced a phased approach to ease restrictions of movement. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, by Friday 10 am, the death toll stood at 33,286 out of which more than 11,000...
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Behind the curtain: Bank officials in Surat
And in Gujarat, this is what it looks like: The total number of positive cases of coronavirus in Gujarat crossed the 1,000-mark on Friday after 92 new infections were reported during the last 12 hours, said health officials. With this, the coronavirus count in Gujarat now stands at...
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Karnataka has scaled up the number of coronovirus tests by five times, said a key Minister, who regretted that some of those who died due to COVID-19 pandemic could have saved their lives had they opted to avail the treatment early. In the biggest jump in a day, Karnataka reported 36 new...
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Upwards of 100 Iranian health workers have died from the coronavirus, prompting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to announce in March that doctors and nurses who die from the infection will be recognized as 'martyrs,' an honorific usually used for soldiers who sacrifice themselves in...
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The government on Friday removed restrictions on exports of formulations made from Paracetamol amid outbreak of Covid-19. However, restrictions on exports of Paracetamol active pharmaceutical ingredients will continue on, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification. The...
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The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an order to include more activities which include Non-Banking financial institutions, cooperative credit societies and other financial institutions with minimum staff, making them exempt from the lockdown with effect from April 20. -- Water supply and...
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The Group of Ministers (GOM) meeting on COVID19 underway at Nirman Bhawan. Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and other ministers present.
11:41
Millions of jobs in the global tourism industry could be lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted travel like no other event in history and caused 96 per cent of all worldwide destinations to introduce restrictions in response to the outbreak, the World Tourism Organisation has said....
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As India has entered the second phase of lockdown and the number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise, the country is escalating its efforts to ramp up testing. India will receive 5.5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits and one lakh RNA extraction kits from China as it ramps up its testing for...
11:23
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services jumped nearly 8 per cent on Friday after the company reported a marginal decline in March quarter earnings. Market analysts said TCS outlined a balanced business outlook and investors are anticipating a recovery in demand conditions by the third quarter of...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to conduct tests for asymptomatic patients for coronavirus only after five days of quarantine to avoid the possibility of false negatives. Until now, the BMC was conducting swab tests of high- risk contacts of coronavirus positive...
10:51
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announces a new set of regulatory measures to deal with financial challenges posed due to COVID-19. Speaking on the pandemic crisis, Das said:-- IMF Economic Counsellor has named it 'The Great lockdown' estimating cumulative loss to global GDP over 2020-21 at around 9...
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RBI governor Shaktikanta Das briefs the media: Further updates:-- IMF projection of 1.9% GDP growth for India is highest in G20-- RBI to announce new measures to maintain adequate liquidity in system, facilitate bank credit flow, ease financial stress.-- Contraction in exports in March at 34.6%...
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RBI governor Shaktikanta Das briefs the media. More updates:-- On April 14, International Monetary Fund released its global growth projections revealing that in 2020, the global economy is expected to plunge into the worst recession since 'The Great Depression'.Since March 27, the macroeconomic...
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RBI governor Shaktikanta Das addresses the media. Das says we need to do whatever it takes to flatten the COVID-19 curve. He said humanity faces its biggest trial. He expressed gratitude to all banking and financial institution personnel who are working to keep services operational. He also...
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Lockdown woes: In Madhya Pradesh, tomato produce is rotting in fields due to lack of labour and transportation. Farmers in Chhatarpur say, All crops are completely destroyed. We are not able to take tomatoes to the market, it has caused us a loss of Rs 50,000 to 60,000 in the last two weeks.
09:50
Equity benchmark Sensex rallied over 1,100 points in opening trade on Friday tracking strong gains in index heavyweights HDFC twins, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and TCS amid positive cues from global markets. Investor sentiment is also buoyed in anticipation of more measures from the...
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US is on the decline, China on the rise
China's economy contracted 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.The world's second-largest economy has been hit by drastic measures taken to contain the spread of coronavirus which has infected over two million...
09:44
Nikhil Kumarswamy, son of former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy, will tie the knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Congress Minister for Housing M Krishnappa, today. The haldi ceremony that took place yesterday at Kumaraswamy's residence in Bengaluru.
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Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das will address the media at 10 am on Friday amidst the steep fall in the rupee and the continuing volatility in other segments of the financial markets. The rupee fell 0.55 per cent to a new record low of 76.86 against the US dollar on Thursday,...
09:26
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Dairoo area of Shopian in south Kashmir on Friday following specific information about the presence of...
08:51
Latest data from Union Health ministry put the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India at well over 13,000 as of the morning hours on April 17.As per the update at 8 am today, confirmed cases in the country number 13,387 at the moment. 1,749 people have been cured/discharged/migrated so...
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Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area, which had remained the centre of a massive anti-CAA protest for nearly 100 days between December and March, has become one of the hotspots of Covid-19 outbreak.Delhi government included the area in its list of Covid-19 cluster containment zones, along with a street in...
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The global coronavirus death toll passed 140,000, with nearly two thirds of all fatalities in Europe. In total, 1,40,902 people have died of the virus, including 92,900 in Europe, the hardest hit continent in the world.There are now more than 2.1 million recorded infections globally,...
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A total of 3,336 Indians tested positive for coronavirus in 53 countries while 25 others died of the infection, government sources said on Thursday.They said the Indians stranded abroad will have to be patient as the government is not evacuating them as part of a larger policy decision to check...
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