The World Health Organization (WHO), together with a group of global partners, launched a groundbreaking collaboration to accelerate both the development and equitable access to new essential technologies for COVID-19. At a virtual conference on Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other global leaders made an unprecedented commitment to work together to accelerate the […]
The total number of coronavirus cases in India reached 24,506 on Saturday, including foreign nationals, with 18,668 active cases, while the death toll has increased to 775, the Union Health Ministry said. The Health Ministry said in its daily update that of the 775 deaths, the highest — 301 — was reported from Maharashtra, followed […]
To provide greater transparency and equip users with more information about who is advertising to them, Google on Thursday announced that its identity verification policy will now cover all advertisers on its platforms and the identity verification programme will “take fear years to complete. Google currently verifies political advertisers in 30 countries in an effort […]
A total of 145 Indian crew members of a cruise ship ‘Marella Discovery’ finally disembarked at Mumbai Port after spending more than six weeks at sea, officials said here on Thursday. On March 7, the cruise ship disembarked all its passengers at Laem Chabang port in Thailand in view of the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Highlighting the plight of the daily wagers, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said, here on Thursday, during the crisis the priority of the government should be to protect the livelihood and the poor. “The daily wage labourers are suffering from starvation during the lockdown. No problem is solved with anger and hatred. In this crisis, […]
An astounding 93.5 per cent people in the country believe that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is handling the coronavirus outbreak effectively, a survey revealed on Thursday. The central government had imposed a 21-day nation-wide lockdown on March 25, which was later extended till May 3. According to the IANS-C-voter Covid-19 tracker, the number […]
When used correctly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended alcohol-based hand disinfectants to be effective against the novel coronavirus, as confirmed by the international team of researchers. For the findings published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the research team headed by Professor Stephanie Pfander from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) in Germany, exposed Sars-Cov-2 viruses for […]
China on Monday cut its benchmark lending rate for the second time this year to reduce corporate borrowing costs and ease the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the worlds second-largest economy. The People’s Bank of China lowered the one-year loan prime rate by 20 basis points to stand at 3.85 per cent from 4.05 […]
An economist turned State Finance Minister Thomas Issac was least pleased after hearing the Friday statement of the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and said this was not going to be of any good to Kerala. He demanded that either Das or Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should answer their concerns. Issac told the media that […]
Aditya Birla Group’s metals flagship company Hindalco Industries on Tuesday said that it has completed acquisition of the US-based rolled products major, Aleris Corporation. The acquisition has made Hindalco one of the world’s largest aluminium companies, with a global footprint spanning 49 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. “The closure of this deal […]