Charlie Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathway, the investment company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffet, is not looking at making investments amid the COVID-19 crisis. In a recent telephonic interview with the Wall Street Journal, Munger was asked if his investment

On Monday, banks and NBFCs (non-banking finance companies) were among the biggest losers on the Indian stock exchanges. ICICI Bank ended 10.56 percent lower, HDFC 9.98 percent down, HDFC Bank 7.89 percent lower, SBI was down 5.88 percent and NSE's banking

State Bank of India (SBI) has initiated an emergency loan scheme for its customers amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. It allows bank account holders of the nation's largest bank to apply for the loan on its

The contagion of COVID-19 has adversely affected every walk of life, businesses have gone back to the drawing boards to chalk out sustainable plans. The government and financial bodies are constantly working on developing plans for different sectors to be able

Vardhan said the doubling time of coronavirus infection cases in the country for the last three days has been about 11 days and 9.9 days for the last seven days.

The health department has directed that social distancing is the only effective way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but it is impossible to do so in prisons as they have more prisoners than their prescribed capacity, he said in a statement.

A total of 330 patients were discharged after recovery from hospitals, taking their total number to 3,800. Of the 48 deaths, 27 were reported from Mumbai, nine from Pune city.

Even RIMS, the only state-run super-specialty medical institute in Jharkhand, does not have the required equipment to deal with the crisis. At present, there is one ventilator for every 70,000 people in the state.

According to the health ministry statement, the central teams comprises a senior official from the health ministry, a joint secretary-level nodal officer and a public health expert.

As per the latest bulletin by the health department on Saturday, the state has reported 1,786 COVID-19 cases and 171 deaths of people infected with the virus.

He died in the early hours of Friday after being admitted in a civic hospital on Wednesday with Covid-19-like symptoms, an official said.

The teacher had last come to school on April 28 and started showing COVID-19 symptoms from May 2. His test report came on Friday, an official of North Delhi Municipal Corporation said.

Doctors at the government-run ESIC Hospital here committed a "mistake" by not testing samples of a 16-year-old girl, who later died of Covid-19, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.

Ministry of Science and Technology's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Dr Renu Swarup says that based on the latest WHO consensus, Covid-19 as a 'lab release' theory is likely to be false.

The state health department has also set up a dedicated helpline for issues regarding the non-availability of PPEs and other supplies.

Actress Zoa Morani, who along with sister Shaza and father, film producer Karim Morani recovered from Covid-19 in April donated her blood for plasmatherapy.

Top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci is among three members of the White House's coronavirus task force who will self-isolate after potential exposure to the pathogen, US media reported...

Gautam Gambhir said that apart from the use of saliva to shine the cricket balls, he does not see too many rules changing due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Emirates, one of the world's biggest long-haul airlines, reported a 21 percentrise in full-year profit

London, May 03: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed for the first time on Sunday that there were "contingency plans" in place in case things went "badly wrong" and he died during his treatment for COVID-19 in a hospital here last

Washington, May 4: President Donald Trump says he believes a vaccine for COVID-19 will be available by the end of the year. Trump also says the U.S. government is putting its "full power and might" behind remdesivir, a drug that has

Washington, May 4: Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope - maybe unrealistic - that an end to the pandemic may arrive sooner

Washington, May 05: President Donald Trump says he believes a vaccine for COVID-19 will be available by the end of the year. Trump also says the US government is putting its full power and might behind remdesivir, a drug that has

Islamabad, May 05: Pakistan's tally of the coronavirus cases crossed the 20,000-mark on Monday after 1,083 new infections were diagnosed, the health ministry said. In the last 24 hours, 1,083 new cases were reported, taking the total to 20,186 patients. There

Washington, May 05: Special evacuation flights for Indians stranded in the US due to the global travel restrictions put in place to contain the coronavirus pandemic are most likely to begin from San Francisco this week, according to officials.

Berlin, May 5: Several drugs approved for the treatment of hepatitis C viral infection have been identified as potential candidates against COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to a study based on extensive calculations using supercomputer simulations.

Beijing, May 06: China has reported 16 new coronavirus cases, including 15 asymptomatic ones, taking the total number of infections in the country to 82,881, health officials said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission (NHC) said that one confirmed

Beijing, May 06: China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan and said he has no evidence to back

Washington, May 07: A Chinese medical researcher on the "verge of making very significant" coronavirus findings has been found shot dead in the US state of Pennsylvania, media reports said on Wednesday. University of Pittsburgh professor Bing Liu, 37, was found

Washington, May 09: The White House on Friday said that US Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the novel coronavirus, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for COVID-19 this week.

United Nations, May 09: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering. The UN chief said anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have spread,

Kocchi, May 09: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said two people who returned from abroad over the last few days have tested positive for the coronavirus, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 17. As part

New Delhi, May 09: The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh

Paris, May 09: The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 2,75,000 people worldwide since it began in China late last year, with more than 85% of fatalities in Europe and the United States, according to an AFP tally compiled from official

New Delhi, May 09: The health ministry has decided to deploy central teams in 10 states that have witnessed or are witnessing high COVID-19 cases to assist their health departments to facilitate management of the outbreak. These are

New Delhi, May 09: The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 62,700 on Saturday and the death toll topped the 2,000-mark after hundreds more tested positive for the infection in several states, while worries mounted globally about re-emergence of the

New Delhi, May 10: The number of COVID-19 deaths in Nashik district reached 20 after a policeman succumbed to the coronavirus infection on Saturday, health officials said. The district also saw 60 new cases through the day, taking the

Aizawl, May 10: Mizoram became coronavirus-free with the discharge of the lone COVID-19 patient from a hospital on Saturday, officials said. It now shares a similar status with four other northeastern states -- Manipur, Sikkim, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

The Global pandemic Covid 19, the outbreak of which started last year, has disrupted lives and brought the world to a standstill. On April 24, globally, the COVID-19 cases exceeded 2.7 million. India recorded 1,752 fresh Covid 19 cases in the

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