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Air India slashes employee monthly allowances by up to 50%
The Air India order said 11 types of allowances for pilots would stand reduced by 40 percent
23 Jul 2020 2:58 PM
Kim Jong Un visits chicken farm, calls for improvements
He described the facility as a model for modernizing chicken farms in the rest of the country, which he described as 'backward'
23 Jul 2020 12:19 PM
78% Indian consumers cut spending amid COVID-19 crisis: KPMG
Consumers in tier-III cities were 1.4 times more inclined towards spending on apparel than tier-I cities, it said
23 Jul 2020 12:08 PM
UN annual meet to go virtual for first time in 75 years of history
World leaders will instead submit pre-recorded video statements for this year's landmark 75th session of UNGA
23 Jul 2020 11:49 AM
Pfizer, BioNTech reach $1.95 billion COVID-19 vaccine deal with US
The contract for 100 million doses of the vaccine amounts to a $39 price tag for what is likely to be a two-dose course of treatment
23 Jul 2020 10:19 AM
India lockdown dents CocaCola sales in June quarter
Unit case volume declined 36 per cent driven by India and South Africa due to the impact of the coronavirus, said CocaCola
22 Jul 2020 9:03 AM
Maharashtra minister Aslam Shaikh tests coronavirus positive
Shaikh, the Congress MLA from Malad-West seat in Mumbai, also said he will continue to work from home
21 Jul 2020 1:37 PM
Jubilant Generics gets DCGI nod to manufacture COVID-19 drug Remdesivir
On June 21, Hetero and Cipla and on July 2 Mylan were given permission to manufacture and market the drug on the same conditions
21 Jul 2020 10:01 AM
IndiGo to cut 10% staff, says CEO Ronojoy Dutta
IndiGo, which had 23,531 employees on its rolls as of March 2019, said it was flying only a small percentage of full fleet of 250 airplanes
21 Jul 2020 9:05 AM
Home learning, reopening schools especially hard in Africa
The schooling crisis is more acute in Africa, where up to 80% of students don’t have access to internet and even electricity is unreliable
20 Jul 2020 8:16 PM
Bank employee unions demand 5-day working week, says COVID threat is haunting bankers
The Indian Banks' Association in January rejected the proposal for a five-day working week but offered a 19 percent pay hike to employees
20 Jul 2020 9:57 AM
Seven Indian pharma players race to develop vaccine for deadly coronavirus
Leading vaccine major Serum Institute of India has said that it is hoping to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the year-end
19 Jul 2020 4:08 PM
6,00,000 people succumb to COVID-19 globally
While the U.S. leads global infections, South Africa now ranks as the fifth worst-hit country in the pandemic with 350,879 cases
19 Jul 2020 12:39 PM
Zydus Cadila to end COVID-19 vaccine trial in 2021
Cadila’s vaccine candidate, known as ZyCov-D, is one of dozens being developed around the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic
17 Jul 2020 3:24 PM
GoAir announces quarantine packages
The hotel quarantine packages start from Rs 1,400 and goes on to Rs 5,900 per person per night , from their station of origin
17 Jul 2020 8:57 AM
Indian pharma industry capable of producing COVID-19 vaccine for entire world: Bill Gates
Lot of very important things have been done in India and its pharma industry is doing work to help make the coronavirus vaccine, he said
16 Jul 2020 4:07 PM
The Fauci vs White House tussle over a deadly pandemic
White House tensions with Fauci have risen with the decline of Trump’s popularity in opinion polls over the president’s handling of pandemic
16 Jul 2020 2:20 PM
Not out of the woods yet: IMF chief warns second wave of virus could disrupt economies
Activity has started to gradually strengthen, but we are not out of the woods yet, Georgieva said in a message to G20 finance ministers
16 Jul 2020 10:46 AM
Air India to send staff on leave without pay for upto five years
Air India to send employees on LWP for six months or for a period of two years extendable upto five years
16 Jul 2020 10:02 AM
Oil prices slip after OPEC, allies agree to loosen supply curbs
OPEC+ agreed on Wednesday to scale back oil production cuts from August as the global economy slowly recovers from the coronavirus pandemic
16 Jul 2020 8:53 AM
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