MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD July 2 – India’s official death toll from the coronavirus topped 400,000 on Friday, though experts say the actual number of dead could have reached one million or even higher, with a possible third wave of infections looming. India added 100,000 deaths in 39 days, a Reuters […]
NEW DELHI, July 1 – India’s June unemployment rate fell to 9.17% from the May figure of 11.90%, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) showed on Thursday. Most economic activities have resumed in the south Asian nation after state governments eased pandemic curbs following a […]
BENGALURU, July 1 – India’s factory activity contracted for the first time in almost a year in June as restrictions to contain the deadly second wave of the coronavirus triggered declines in demand and output that pushed firms to cut more jobs, a private survey showed on Thursday. […]
BENGALURU, June 30 – India reported on Wednesday 45,951 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. India’s coronavirus-related deaths rose by 817 overnight. Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-reports-45951-new-covid-19-cases-817-deaths-2021-06-30/
NEW DELHI, June 30 – An Indian state has challenged in the Supreme Court a bar on police action against Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) country head, after a lower court protected him against arrest over an accusation that the platform was used to spread hate. The tussle, coupled with discontent over […]
Ghaziabad (UP), Jun 30: BJP workers and farm law protesters clashed in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Wednesday. The ruckus took place when the BJP workers were carrying out a procession on a flyway where the farm law protesters, chiefly supporters of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, […]
LUCKNOW, India, June 29 – A Hindu hardline group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter’s (TWTR.N) country head after politically sensitive regions were depicted outside a map of India on its website, kickstarting an investigation in a fresh headache for the U.S. tech firm. A map on Twitter’s […]
New Delhi, Jun 29: A day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a package to support the pandemic-hit economy, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the answer to this “crisis” is to spur demand by putting money in the hands of the people, especially the poor […]
New Delhi, Jun 29: The single-day rise in fresh cases was recorded below 40,000 after 102 days, bringing the COVID-19 infection tally to 3,03,16,897, while the daily fatalities remained below 1,000 for the second consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday India saw […]
MUMBAI, June 28 – India’s $600 billion in reserves should help it fight market volatility from any U.S. monetary tightening, but analysts and traders warn a slowing economy and an expanding fiscal deficit still make it particularly vulnerable to capital flight. Asia’s third-largest economy has bad memories of […]
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