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RBI may extend bank loan moratorium by another 3 months to help people, industry impacted by lockdown. (PTI Photo)

RBI may extend bank loan moratorium by another 3 months amid lockdown

RBI allowed banks and financial institutions to offer a moratorium of three months on payment of instalments of all term loans

05 May 2020 2:18 PM

India's April gold imports plunge 99.9% to three-decade low. (PTI Photo)

India's gold imports plunge to three-decade low

The world’s second biggest consumer of the precious metal imported around 50 kilograms of gold in April, down from 110.18 tonnes a year ago

05 May 2020 10:12 AM

Petrol sales down 61%, diesel 56.5% in April. (PTI Photo)

Petrol and diesel sales shrink in April; demand expected to pick up this month

The demand is expected to further pick up as more areas were opened up on Monday

04 May 2020 4:11 PM

Auto stocks plunged nearly 12 percent. (PTI Photo)

Auto stocks slump nearly 12% as automakers score nil domestic sales in April

Maruti Suzuki India, Hyundai Motor India Ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota Kirloskar Motor and MG Motor India reported nil sales

04 May 2020 3:57 PM

Passenger hands over his testing kit to Illinois National Guard soldier Carlye Clehouse at a testing facility in Waukegan. (AP)

Even as lockdown eases, countries see surge in virus infections

Governments have reported 3.5 million infections and more than 247,000 deaths, including more than 67,000 dead in the United States alone

04 May 2020 2:58 PM

Sebi said that entities providing capital and debt market services will continue to remain operational during the nationwide lockdown. (PTI Photo)

Capital, debt market service providers to remain operational during lockdown: SEBI

This order will continue to remain in force for two weeks starting 4 May, the regulator said

04 May 2020 2:10 PM

A security guard checks the temperature of a shopper before allowing entry into a shopping mall. (AFP)

As lockdown curbs ease, South Korea throws open malls

The term “bobok sobi” - revenge shopping - trends on the nation’s social media as people rush to make purchases delayed by lockdown

04 May 2020 11:53 AM

Corazzieri Guards wearing protective face masks, as they place a wreath at the monument commemorating those killed at work, as people keep away from May Day (May 1) workers celebrations during the country's lockdown. (Photo taken in Rome and released by the Presidential Quirinale Palace press office)

Italy begins to emerge from world's longest nationwide lockdown

Italy's staggered reopening is complicated by a highly decentralised system that allows the country's 20 regions to layer on their own rules

04 May 2020 8:50 AM

People walk on a pedestrian overpass near a mosque during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in southern Tehran. (AP)

Iran will reopen mosques on Monday as lockdown eases: Rouhani

Iran on Saturday reported its lowest daily toll of new infections since March 10

03 May 2020 2:28 PM

Liquor sale outside containment areas. (PTI Photo)

Liquor shops allowed in all zones; e-commerce, barbers in green, orange zones

Liquor sale is allowed in green, orange and red zones if it is a standalone shop and not located in markets or malls

03 May 2020 1:59 PM

Police officers stand guard outside the Lal mosque which is sealed as its cleric denies a government-imposed nationwide lockdown to help contain the spread of the coronavirus in Islamabad. (AP)

Pakistan sees highest single day spike in covid cases

Pakistan's coronavirus tally records 19,52 new cases; death toll raised to 440

03 May 2020 1:52 PM

A medical worker takes a swab to test for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 from a visitor to a drive-in testing facility at the Chessington World of Adventures Resort, in Chessington. (AFP)

UK shadows Italy as worst hit in Europe

United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 621 on Saturday to a total of 28,131 as of May 1

03 May 2020 11:04 AM

Indian butchers work in their shop as they prepare buffalo meat for sale in New Delhi. (AFP Photo)

Coronavirus lockdown curbs buffalo meat exports hitting Ramazan supplies

Most meat processing plants in India have been shut as the South Asian nation fights to contain the pandemic

03 May 2020 10:02 AM

Amy Senter, owner of Jake's on Main, folds T-shirts in preparation for reopening her shop after being forced to close due to the coronavirus in St. Charles, Mo. (AP)

Businesses reopen in a few US states

Enterpraises are asked to make sure the coronavirus doesn’t come storming back by employing their own restrictions within premises

02 May 2020 11:41 AM

Betul girl gangraped by 7 youths, her cousin thrown into well

This is the second incident of rape in Madhya Pradesh in the past one week during lockdown period.

02 May 2020 11:10 AM

Delhi: The government of Thursday sought suggestions on methods of resource mobilisation from captains of the automobile industry. (PTI Photo)

Government seeks suggestions from auto industry leaders for resource mop-up

The industry captains also sought liquidity support to component makers and dealerships

01 May 2020 4:10 PM

Medical staff perform a test for the COVID-19 coronavirus on a driver at a drive-through testing site in a Melbourne carpark. (AFP)

Australia plans to end lockdown restrictions earlier than planned

Daily new cases are now close to single figures, while some parts of the country have not seen a case in more than a week

01 May 2020 1:29 PM

IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. (PTI Photo)

Work from home may become new norm, says Ravi Shankar Prasad at G20 meeting

The minister highlighted India's action plan to fight coronavirus by leveraging digital technology and called for a global digital response

01 May 2020 11:51 AM

Telangana needs to regain its tax-earning capacities in the post-lockdown period. (DC Photo)

Telangana makes a departure on lockdown strategy

The state would do well to ease its lockdown restrictions in two phases

30 Apr 2020 11:19 PM

A medical worker wearing protective gear helps a woman, suspected of having the coronavirus infection, to get out from an ambulance at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow. (AP)

Russia reports record spike in one day, now eighth in the world in virus cases

Coronavirus cases in the country surged past 100,000 with 7,099 new cases on Thursday

30 Apr 2020 3:19 PM

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