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The government has extended the relaxed connectivity norms for 'work from home', applicable on IT and BPO companies, till July 31, amid the coronavirus pandemic.The deadline for the easier norms was to end on April 30.Industry body Nasscom said the decision to extend the timelines on relaxed...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India's productive capabilities in the pharmaceutical sector would remain available for assisting the citizens of the world as countries fight the COVID-19 pandemic.He also said partnership between India and Canada is vital to fighting the pandemic.In...
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The NITI Aayog building in New Delhi has been sealed for 48 hours after a director-level officer tested positive for coronavirus, a senior official said on Tuesday.A director-level officer working at NITI Bhavan has been tested positive for COVID-19. Today at 9 am, he got his report, and then he...
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said the country will be self-reliant in producing RT-PCR and antibody testing kits by May-end that will enable it to conduct one lakh tests a day.Vardhan also reviewed through video conferencing various initiatives undertaken by the Department of...
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Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday slashed India growth forecast for calendar year 2020 to 0.2 per cent, from 2.5 per cent projected in March.For 2021, Moody's expects India's growth to rebound to 6.2 per cent.In its report titled -- Global Macro Outlook 2020-21 (April 2020 update), Moody's has...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has issued a show-cause notice to its Uttar Pradesh MLA Suresh Tiwari for allegedly asking people not to buy vegetables from Muslim vendors, remarks that attracted the party a lot of flak.Official sources said top party leadership has found his comments 'highly...
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Mid-day meals will be provided to students even during the summer vacation in schools in view of the lockdown imposed to fight COVID-19, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said on Tuesday.The minister also directed the states to start evaluating the answer sheets of the board exams of...
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A mob attacked several policemen who were enforcing lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus at Tikiapara in Howrah district, a red zone, on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in the evening when a police patrol reached Tikiapara area after receiving inputs that a large...
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The Delhi government has asked the Centre to promote CBSE 10th, 12th students based on internal exams.Manish Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, said that he informed the meeting that it is not possible now to conduct the remaining exams of CBSE class 10 and Class 12 students.The...
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Haryana's borders with Delhi have been 'sealed' with essential services allowed but stricter restrictions imposed on those coming in from the national capital, state Home Minister Anil Vij said on Tuesday. Haryana will be in a 'comfortable position' as far as COVID-19 cases are...
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday asked state governments to take urgent action to facilitate inter-state movement of vehicles carrying essential goods amid the coronavirus lockdown. States and union territories were also asked to expedite land acquisition and utilise funds worth...
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With 1,594 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours and 51 deaths, India's total count of coronavirus cases surged to 29,974, said the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Tuesday.The total cases are inclusive of 7,026 cured and discharged patients, one migrated and 937...
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The government has extended the deadline to bid for Air India by two months till June 30, as the COVID-19 fallout has disrupted economic activity globally. This is the second extension in the deadline to submit bids by investors for Air India since it initiated the process of stake...
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RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav on Tuesday said that his father and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav is at risk of getting the COVID-19 infection and special care should be taken of him.It's really worrisome to know about the doctors treating my dad may hv got infected to #COVID. I join 12 crore...
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A coronavirus vaccine wont be ready until the end of next year under the most optimistic of scenarios, according to Pasi Penttinen from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.Vaccine development is a hugely complicated and expensive process, he told Sky News, adding that there...
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The government today said that with 1,543 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of positive cases in the country has now risen 29,435. 684 patients have been found cured in the last 24 hours; our recovery rate is now 23.3 per cent. This is a progressive increase in the...
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The Maharashtra secretariat, Mantralaya, will remain shut for the next two days in view of four employees testing positive for coronavirus, an official said on Tuesday. The affected employees of a state government department have been shifted to a state-run hospital for further treatment, he...
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Indian missions in the UAE will soon start compiling the data of the expatriates wanting to fly back home after getting stuck amidst the coronavirus pandemic in the Gulf nation, according to a media report. The missions are currently awaiting more clarifications from New Delhi regarding the...
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The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday approved a 1.5 billion dollar loan to India to help fund its response to the novel coronavirus disease pandemic. This includes support for immediate priorities like disease containment and prevention as well as social protection for the poor and economically...
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NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has identified 15 places including Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad as high case load and said India's success in battling COVID-19 is dependent on them. Out of these 15, seven districts show particularly high case volumes, like Hyderabad (Telangana), Pune...
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Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that the country will be able to produce indigenous coronavirus-testing kits by May. We will be able to produce RT-PCR and antibody test kits in India by May. All processes are in advanced stage and production will start after getting...
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Two priests were found murdered at a temple in Bulandshahr district on Tuesday morning, allegedly killed by a local youth. Jagdish (55) and Sher Singh (45) were apparently hit with a lathi at Paguana village's Shiva temple in Anupshahr police station area, police said. The alleged killer was...
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India's information technology services industry would see hiring freeze this year and senior level staff taking a 20-25 per cent salary cut due to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, says IT industry veteran T V Mohandas Pai. The former Chief Financial Officer of IT services major,...
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The United States has imposed stricter restrictions on exports to China, which includes civil aircraft components and items related to semiconductors.The new rules will require licences for US companies to sell certain items to military entities in China, even if those goods are for civilian use....
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NCP leader Supriya Sule on Tuesday urged the Centre and the Maharashtra government to initiate together the process of ease the lockdown in a phased manner in areas which are not or less affected by COVID-19, to bring the economy back on track. Sule, the Lok Sabha member from Baramati in...
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A 16-year-old girl from Salmara Bongaingaon, secondary contact of a Markaz attendee, has tested COVID-19 positive. The number of COVID-19 patients in Assam now stands at 36. However active hospital cases are 8, Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted.One person has died due to COVID-19 in the state while 27...
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More than 2,000 transgender persons wrote to Union ministries of home, finance and social justice on Tuesday, seeking a special package for the community which has no permanent sources of income and is as vulnerable as daily wagers' amid the lockdown. They requested the government to provide an...
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The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to consider the feasibility of 'temporarily' adopting the 'one nation, one ration card' scheme during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown period to enable the migrant workers and economically weaker sections get subsidised foodgrain. The central government...
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The NITI Aayog building in the National Capital has been sealed for 48 hours, after a director level officer tested positive for coronavirus, a senior official said on Tuesday. A director level officer working at NITI Bhavan has been tested positive for COVID-19. Today at 9 am, he got his...
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Insomnia, backaches, restlessness, stress and anxiety are among the side effects people are facing from prolonged work from home as the country entered the fifth week of the lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Many companies and firms shut office operations after the...
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Convalescent Plasma (CP) Therapy is emerging as a latest and an effective form of treatment that actively cures Covid-19 patients by boosting up the functions of the antibody.Most of the hospitals in the national capital, which are dealing with Covid-19 cases such as Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan...
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said that around 200 healthcare personnel have been infected with COVID-19 in the national capital while the total number of cases has jumped to 3,108. Around 200 medical staff members of both government and private hospitals have been infected with...
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The Centre has assured the Delhi High Court that the Standard Operating Procedures have been issued by it in the form of detailed guidelines for importation of human remains related to COVID-19.The court was hearing a plea seeking direction to repatriate the mortal remains of a person who died in...
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The Mumbai Police has decided to ask its personnel above the age of 55 years to stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic after three policemen died of coronavirus in the city, officials said on Tuesday. While a formal order in the matter will be issued later today, senior officials in the...
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will join his counterparts from Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa on Tuesday, as the foreign ministers of BRICS member countries will hold an extraordinary video conference to discuss ways to jointly combat the coronavirus pandemic. The ministerial...
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Over 100 policemen, who were attacked by an angry mob when they had gone to a minority dominated area in the city to quarantine some people, have tested negative for coronavirus, a top police official said on Tuesday. Of the 126 miscreants arrested, five had tested positive creating a...
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This is where about 30-odd people -- including doctors, data analysts, information communication technology specialists and public health professionals from various agencies -- have been collecting and analysing granular data from the states to identify the gaps, or forecast a sudden surge in...
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People who have very mild symptoms of coronavirus or those pre-symptomatic can opt for home isolation if they have the requisite self-isolation facility at their residence so as to avoid contact with other family members, the Union Health ministry said. According to a new set of guidelines...
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Premature lifting of the lockdown will spread the disease from asymptomatics, and those undetected, to the whole community, ushering in prolonged misery, preventable and avoidable deaths, famine and social unrest, warns Dr Debashish Danda. Read the column here
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The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 934 and the number of cases climbed to 29,435 in the country on Tuesday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 21,632, while 6,868 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. The...
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US House Committee on Foreign Affairs launched an inquiry into the Donald Trump administration's decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), committee chairman Eliot Engel said on Monday.In a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Democratic Congressman decried the...
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The US is carrying out a very serious investigation against China, President Donald Trump has said, indicating that his administration is looking at a bigger compensation from Beijing than the USD 140 billion being sought by Germany over the coronavirus pandemic. The deadly contagion, which...
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A doctor working at a hospital for treatment of coronavirus patients In Aurangabad in Maharashtra has revealed the tough task and challenges they face in collecting swab samples of the suspected patients. The process of swab sample collection of a person does not take more than 30 to 40...
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The Uttar Pradesh government has started sending students, who are stranded in Prayagraj due to COVID-19 lockdown, to their respective districts.The first batch of students boarded buses on late Monday night to return home. This comes after the Uttar Pradesh government took the decision to help...
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West Bengal: A 69-year-old doctor passes away; he was infected with COVID19. The West Bengal Orthopaedic Association demands state honour for him.
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This is how Chinese schools are maintaining social distancing. First graders back to school in Hangzhou, with social distancing headgear. The long horizontal plumes on Song Dynasty toppers were supposedly to prevent officials from conspiring sotto voce with one another while at court -- so...
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US President Donald Trump has ruled out making any changes in the date of the November 3 presidential election because of the coronavirus pandemic. I never even thought of changing the date of the election. Why would I do that? November 3, it's a good number, Trump told reporters at his White...
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Total number of COVID-19 positive cases in India rises to 29,435 including 21,632 active cases. Of this, 6868 have been cured/discharged, there have been 934 deaths and 1 migrated: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has increased over the...
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the risk of radicalisation can increase during the COVID-19 pandemic as extremist groups seek to exploit the anger and despair of the young, asserting the world cannot afford a lost generation due to the global crisis. In a video conference...
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With several states taking steps to reopen businesses, which were abruptly shut down due to the coronavirus, US President Donald Trump exuded confidence that the fourth quarter of this year and the next year would be phenomenal in terms of economic growth. He also slammed one country for the...
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United States President Donald Trump said he has a very good idea about the status of Kim Jong Un but he can't talk about it now, amid rumours about the ill health of the North Korean leader.I can't tell you exactly - yes, I do have a very good idea but I can't talk about it now. I just wish him...
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Pune city in Maharashtra, which has reported a rapid spread of coronavirus infection, was on Monday notified as a containment zone till May 3 by the city municipal corporation.In view of the order issued by Pune municipal commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad to this effect, police also extended the...
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