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Sterlite has 1.4 crore route kilometer (rKm) optical fibre production in China and 3.6 crore km capacity in India.

The Noida-based group is also helping to improve and expand the state's disaster management helpline (1070) through technological upgradation, manpower assistance and effective reporting mechanisms, a statement said.

The firms have reserves of more than $13 billion to buy rivals in niche segments.

According to staffing company Genius Consultants '9th Hiring, Attrition and Compensation Trend 2020-21', around 81 per cent of the respondents have shown interest to carry on with existing manpower and retaining them.

After the lockdown was imposed, imports of rough stones dried up, and nearly 70% of workers left for their hometowns in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and interiors of Gujarat.

With Gujarat reporting a large number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases and fatalities, medical experts from AIIMS, including its director Dr Randeep Guleria, have rushed to Ahmedabad to provide expert guidance to doctors there on COVID-19 management.

As many as 98,774 cases were registered and 19,082 persons were arrested for violating prohibitory orders during the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. 

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday (May 9) stressed on the need to understand the "chemistry of corona while administering its treatment".

As per UNESCO estimates, over 154 crore students are severely impacted by closure of educational institutions across the world amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had last month announced that it will not be conducting the pending exams in foreign countries. According to officials, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has sought feedback from representatives in different countries about the current situation there.

Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in New Delhi on Tuesday.

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LG Electronics India will donate products like water purifiers, air conditioners, refrigerators and TVs to the hospitals. Samsung India, on the other hand, will provide preventive kits to hospitals, which includes a surgeon gown, face mask, gloves, preventive eye wear, hood cap and shoe cover.

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With malls and shops closed, spending avenues are practically non-existent.

Suggestions from various quarters, including from Indian Banks' Association, have come for the further extension of moratorium and the RBI is actively considering them, according to sources.

Senior SBI executives said most of those seeking deferment are retail and micro and small enterprises and are hard-pressed for resources when earning and cash flows have almost dried up.

The motor and health segments led the decline in premiums for the industry as the month saw premium fall by 9 per cent.

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There is a facility of standby line of credit for MSMEs as well as PNB COVID-19 Emergency Credit Facility (PNB-CECF), the bank said

The SBI official said the employee was not attending office for the last 8-10 days and was later found to have contracted the deadly virus.

Earlier the strawberry growers here had to suffer losses following a hailstorm, now that the markets are shut, the strawberry produce is yet to be sold

Supplies remained unaffected and no unusual spike in prices says Mandi Chairman; 15 confirmed cases registered so far

Zero making charges may not work any more; store sales to be impacted as consumers buy online

The need to close the mandi arose after confirmed Covid-19 cases surpassed 80 within the APMC itself and shot past 450 across Navi Mumbai, where this mandi situated

Beverages maker Coca-Cola’s company-owned bottling partner Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages has bucked the general trend of companies resorting to pay cuts and job cuts amid the Covid-19 pandemic, announcing 7-8% salary increment to its 7,000 direct employees with effect from April 1, 2020.

“While during the early days of lockdown basic essentials got sold, with time some discretionary sales are coming back,” said Devendra Chawla, MD at Nature’s Basket and Spencer’s Retail that saw 30-60% growth in sales for cold cuts, exotic vegetables, assorted breads and cakes, cookies, international sauces, organic range of staples in last ten days.

Dairy major Amul has written to the central government requesting clarifications on claims made by local authorities, and even some factions of the Gujarat government, that consumption of chilled products like ice-cream spread coronavirus.

“There is absolutely no income coming our way due to the Covid-induced lockdown for over a month. As a result, most companies are facing the problem of paying the employee salaries in full for the month of April,” said National Restaurant Association of India president Anurag Katriar.

It is shocking that educated people resort to such acts, says health official

In a first in Telangana, a COVID positive woman delivered a baby boy at Gandhi Hospital on Friday. The 22-year-old woman was admitted at the hospital

Renal patient tests positive for SARS-CoV-2

Radhakrishnan inspects facilities in various parts of the city

Delhi govt. acquires 170 hotel rooms for infected officials, family members

Gautam Buddha Nagar recorded its first COVID-19 related death on Friday.A 60-year-old man who was first admitted to a private hospital and later trans

Leaders worried about spike in cases

Anil Kumble thanked all the health care workers and others who are going on with their work so that everyone else can stay safe at home.