The global economy could suffer between $5.8 trillion and $8.8 trillion in losses -- equivalent to 6.4 per cent to 9.7 per cent of the global GDP -- due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report on Friday....
London could be "coronavirus free" by June, as new modelling has suggested that the UK capital was recording only 24 new cases a day, according to an analysis by the Cambridge University and Public Health England published on Friday. ...
Russia has confirmed 10,598 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total tally to 262,843, the second highest in the world, according to the country's coronavirus response centre on Friday....
US President Donald Trump has said that he "could cut off the whole relationship" with China, in one of his strongest comments against Beijing in the wake of the Asian giant's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the media reported....
The long march back to their homes by hordes of migrant workers through Agra, has put additional pressure on the district administration battling Covid-19 community spread, in the 44 hot zones. On Thursday, the focus was on providing relief to unending streams of migrant workers on the national highways and expressways. The Indian Medical As...
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered administrations across India not to prosecute employers who were unable to pay full wages to workers during the Covid-19 induced nationwide lockdown. A bench comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and B.R. Gavai asked the Centre and states not to prosecute private companies, fact...
Karnataka is amending the law to enable its farmers sell their crop for the best price even outside the APMCs, said state Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Friday. "The Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) Act is being amended to empower millions of our farmers to sell their produce for the best price in the APMC...
More than 150 seafarers, who had disembarked off various ships at the Mumbai port reached Goa on Friday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday. The 154 seafarers are currently in the process of being screened and quarantined in government-appointed facilities....
With the number of containment zones coming down in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar in Noida, the state government has relaxed the standards related to these zones. With this, the areas where infected patients are found will not be sealed for that long. The district administration has redefined the entire containment zone....
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has made a provision under which the MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) funds can be used to build cow shelters. Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Manoj Kumar Singh, said that earlier MLALAD funds were not permitted in repair or construction of cow shelters but now Legislators ...
