by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: Pegging the cost of the Covid-19 lockdown at USD 120 billion (approximately Rs 9 lakh crore) or 4 per cent of the GDP, analysts on Wednesday sharply cut their growth estimates and stressed on the need to announce an economic package. The Reserve Bank of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: Investment chiefs at two Indian life insurance companies are keeping money in stocks despite selling by overseas funds that has put the nation’s benchmark index on course for a record monthly decline. The S&P BSE Sensex has plunged 30%...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centers and IT services firms that function as the world’s back office are struggling to piece together work-from-home solutions and other business-continuity plans. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump pressed his case on Tuesday for a re-opening of the U.S. economy by mid-April despite a surge in coronavirus cases, downplaying the pandemic as he did in its early stages by comparing it to the seasonal flu. Trump and his...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said the government is monitoring the availability of essential commodities in the market amid nationwide lockdown for next 21 days to check the spread of coronavirus outbreak. Paswan warned...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Washington: The White House and Senate leaders of both parties have struck an agreement on a sweeping USD 2 trillion measure to aid workers, businesses and a health care system strained by the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak. The agreement came on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Intermediaries
New Delhi: Amid coronavirus outbreak, the government on Wednesday banned export of anti-malarial drug hydroxycloroquine with immediate effect to ensure sufficient availability of the medicine in the domestic market. Indian Council of Medical...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
United Nations: India ranked a lowly 122 on a list of the world's happiest countries, dropping four slots from last year and coming behind China, Pakistan and Nepal Norway ranks as the happiest country in the world, according to The World...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 25, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Even as Prime minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide a 21-day lockdown in an attempt to stall the spread of coronavirus lockdown, the country's total number of cases rose to 562 with 11 deaths, on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 24, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Even as Prime minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide a 21-day lockdown in an attempt to stall the spread of coronavirus, the country's total number of cases rose to 562 with 11 deaths, on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu reported its...
