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Swiggy to lay off 1,100 employees as covid19 hits online food orders. (PTI Photo)

Swiggy to lay off 1,100 employees as covid19 hits online food orders

Swiggy is among many that are laying off employees and reshaping their business in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

18 May 2020 4:00 PM IST

RBI may extend moratorium on repayment of loans for three more months. (PTI Photo)

RBI may extend moratorium on repayment of loans for three more months,...

In March, RBI had allowed a three-month moratorium on payment of all term loans due between 1 March, 2020 and 31 May,...

18 May 2020 2:46 PM IST

Representational Image. (AP)

India won't rush its players back to game

Stadiums and sports complexes are reopening to allow athletes to train but there will be no events staged that would...

18 May 2020 1:26 PM IST

People cycle through Parliament Square in central London on May 17, 2020, following an easing of lockdown rules in England. (AFP)

US, Europe weighs reopening risks sans vaccine

Health experts say the world could be months, if not years, away from having a vaccine available to everyone

18 May 2020 12:23 PM IST

Record jump of 5,242 COVID-19 cases in 24 hrs, tally reaches 96,169; death toll touches 3,029. (PTI Photo)

Coronavirus tally in India nears 1 lakh, deaths cross 3,000

A record jump of 5,242 cases in the last 24 hours

18 May 2020 10:48 AM IST

Waorani indigenous people. (AFP)

First coronavirus case detected in Ecuador's Amazon tribe

Waorani organizations warns that virus spread could be catastrophic for the community, which is generally vulnerable to...

18 May 2020 9:35 AM IST

Asian shares make cautious gains; oil, gold prices hit record levels as more countries reopen their economies. (AP Photo)

Asian shares make cautious gains; oil and gold jump

Oil prices reached their highest since March as demand picked up as countries around the world eased travel restrictions

18 May 2020 9:16 AM IST

US president Donald Trump. (AP)

Obama was 'grossly incompetent president': Trump

Trump's reaction came after Obama on Saturday criticised the US authorities' response to the coronavirus outbreak

18 May 2020 9:04 AM IST

Rev. Timothy Pelc blesses Easter baskets outside St. Ambrose Church in Grosse Pointe Park. He offered a prayer and sprayed holy water from a squirt gun instead of blessing baskets inside the church in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP)

Michigan priest draws squirt gun to shoot holy water

Priest says he was concerned about how the Vatican might react when the photos of him squirting holy water became viral

18 May 2020 8:53 AM IST

Medical workers attend to a COVID-19 patient at the Sao Jose municipal hospital, in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. (AP)

Brazil passes Italy and Spain in confirmed coronavirus cases

Brazil's Health Ministry registered 14,919 new confirmed cases in the prior 24 hours, taking the total to 233,142

17 May 2020 2:16 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (ANI Photo)

FM Nirmala announces additional 40k crore under MGNREGS to boost...

Top-100 universities will be permitted to automatically start online courses by May 30, 2020

17 May 2020 12:26 PM IST

Scientists say the risk of infection is near its highest when people spend long periods in enclosed spaces - like airplanes. (AFP)

Airlines struggle to impose mask rule on defiant travellers

Most airlines appear to have chosen the course of conciliation over confrontation with insistent and sometimes angry...

17 May 2020 12:06 PM IST