HYDERABAD: Continuing its record of high-four-digit cases every day, Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday reported 9,747 cases. This comes after recording over 10,000 cases a day for three consecutive days last week. The latest addition takes the total to 1,76,333 cases in AP. The state over the last 24 hours suffered 67 Covid deaths, which takes … Read more
Lunchbox, books, pencil case — masks? Thousands of children in northern Germany became the first in Europe to begin a new school year on Monday after months of curtailed hours over the coronavirus pandemic. The rest of the country was watching anxiously as 150,000 children returned to school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany’s first state to … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP ally Lok Janshakti Party has written to the Election Commission against holding the Bihar assembly polls in October-November, when they are due, saying it will otherwise amount to deliberately “pushing people towards death”. The party has said resources should now be focused on curbing the COVID-19 crisis and tackling floods in the … Read more
Colombo: The Reserve Bank of India has signed necessary documents for extending a USD 400 million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka to boost the island nation’s draining foreign exchange reserves due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian High Commission here said on Saturday. The currency swap arrangement will remain available till November 2022, the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s sero-surveillance has revealed that 22.86% of the people have been affected by Covid-19 in the city. The survey, which was conducted from June 27 to July 10 by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with Delhi government, also indicated that a large number of infected persons remain asymptomatic. The … Read more
During a blue-sky moment in 2018 near the end of a decade-long economic expansion, it was the United States that helped pull the world along as the extra cash from tax cuts and government spending flowed through domestic and global markets. But if it was U.S. policy that pushed the world higher then, it is … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with the party’s Lok Sabha MPs through video conferencing on Saturday and is learnt to have discussed with them the COVID-19 situation in the country. According to sources, she also discussed the current political situation and the key issues that would be raised by the Congress … Read more
India’s GDP will contract by 3 per cent in FY21 because of the coronavirus pandemic, assuming the economy is opened up fully from next month, a foreign brokerage said on Thursday. BofA Securities also said the RBI will monetise the fiscal deficit through purchase of government bonds of up to USD 95 billion through open … Read more