Mortality rate increases if COVID-19 patient delays in visiting hospital: AIIMS-Delhi Director

Coronavirus in West Bengal: 11 deaths, 108 fresh cases reported in last 24 hours

COVID-19 in Mumbai: BMC Commissioner Iqbal Chahal takes stock of Dharavi slum area

Nearly 82 per cent of the total remittances received by the country originated from eight countries - the UAE, US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UK, and Malaysia.

The data was provided by Indian missions in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia but the Embassy in the UAE refused to give information. The Indian embassy referred to data on their website which was only 2014 onwards.

The embassies in Gulf countries have not been forthcoming in providing data under RTI on the number of deaths.

India was followed by China (USD 67 billion), Mexico (USD 36 billion), the Philippines (USD 34 billion), and Egypt (USD 29 billion).

India was the top recipient of remittances worldwide in 2018, data from the World Bank shows. The remittances were boosted in part by migrants from Kerala sending.

"Thirty new cases of COVID-19 (six from Delhi and 24 from Tripura) have been reported from different establishments. All of them are under the best available medical care at AIIMS-Jhajjar and G B Pant Hospital, Agartala," BSF spokesperson Shubhendu Bhardwaj said in a statement.

Among the 48 active cases, maximum 31 are in the unit that guards the Delhi Metro followed by 13 in the Mumbai international airport guarding unit. The maximum rise in cases, at 10, over the last 24 hours has also been reported from the Delhi Metro guarding unit. The force is tasked to guard civil airports (63 at present) in the country and vital infrastructure.

These companies have undertaken massive exercises to retrain agents to approach and convince customers to buy new policies and renew premiums entirely through digital channels such as WhatsApp or Zoom, while also rejigging sales strategies starting right from the drafts used by agents to approach prospective customers, said people aware of the developments.

Industry leaders said April-June quarter would be a washout even for the high and mighty.

It took for the company’s HR department to visit the villages and show them the letters of approval received from the ministry of textile, local administration and to explain to the residents how this will help the country’s effort to fight the pandemic. HR departments face the additional task of convincing not just employees but their neighbours too of the hygienic conditions.

75% companies lack a structure or policy to address frauds in CSR programs, the report said. Many companies that are now looking to allocate their CSR funds towards Covid-19 related programs, but still do not have structures in place that could avoid frauds, it said.

​The app that complements the Aarogya Setu App has been made mandatory for all employees across the value chain, requiring them to update their health status, including close family members, on the app everyday. It has been developed to ensure safety and monitor employees' health on a real time basis.

Kamal Jain, a professor at the institute's civil engineering department, claims that the software will not only reduce testing costs but will also reduce the risk of exposure to healthcare professionals. ​So far, there is no verification of his claim by a medical institution.

China on Friday named its first Mars exploration mission to be launched later this year as Tianwen-1 as it celebrated 'Space Day' to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country's first satellite Dong Fang Hong-1 in 1970.

The timing of the peak will depend on how India is able to control physical distancing and on the level of infection spreads after restrictions are relaxed, they said.

The device, called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), passed a critical test this week at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York, an epicentre of COVID-19 in the US, NASA said.

IIT-Guwahati has shown the way cornering the biggest pool of projects, followed by IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad. Nearly 50% of the key research in India’s premier technical schools are happening in six of the old IITs. Majority of the researches are happening in the field of personal protective care equipment (45 projects), followed by sanitisation (33) and treatment.

Recent reports have suggested that the combination of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and the antibiotic azithromycin may help patients with COVID-19, said scientists from the New York University School of Medicine in the US.

While over 20 technical and scientific institutions are working on developing a vaccine for coronavirus, IITs have already set up "COVID-19 specific research centres", encouraging developments in the innovation ecosystem.

Two students of the Jadavpur University have developed an intelligent device which will analyse if a coughing person is a COVID-19 carrier.

Texas A&M is the first US institution in the clinical trial to have federal clearance for testing on humans. Researchers hope to demonstrate that Bacillus Calmette-Guerin or BCG mitigates the effects of the novel coronavirus, allowing fewer people to be hospitalised or to die from COVID-19.

The study, published in the journal Pathogens, found that all four drugs were effective in inhibiting, or blocking, the coronavirus' RNA proteins from making genomic copies of the novel coronavirus.

CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh are currently sequencing the genomes of the novel coronavirus, he said. Other CSIR institutes are also expected to join the process.

These will be issued in three tranches of Rs 500 crore, Rs 300 crore and Rs 200 crores with redemptions due on September 30, 2022, November 28, 2022 and December 29, 2022 respectively, it added.

The company said that it will seek shareholders' nod for raising up to Rs 2,500 crore through QIP.

On April 28, Tata Motors had said it would be issuing non-convertible debentures worth Rs 1,000 crore.

A hike in taxes on fuels, which will add to government’s revenue, helped lift sentiment.

Analysts in an ETNow poll had projected the number at Rs 3,000 crore.

Revenue from operations in the fourth quarter stood at Rs 616.61 crore, as against Rs 634.59 crore in the year-ago period.

The company's total income declined 17.90 per cent YoY to Rs 449.62 crore in the January-March quarter

"After New Delhi didn't fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms, AIBA has terminated the contract. Therefore, India would have to pay a cancellation penalty of USD 500," the AIBA said in a statement.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said his ministry is devising a plan for phase-wise resumption of national camps for Olympic-bound athletes by the end of this month.

The multi-year deal will see Baseline managing all the commercial interests of Garg. Born in Meerut, UP, Garg made his first-class debut against Goa in 2018 where he went on to score an unbeaten 117. He recently led the Under-19 Indian team at the World Cup in South Africa where they finished runners-up.

The High Court passed the interim order on Friday as a result of the blatant violation of the conditions that the court had prescribed under which liquor shops could function. These conditions included adhering to social distancing norms while also deploying additional staff to manage the crowd.

‘Don’t sell but use dips in the market to deploy money’

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 71.25.

“Today, USDINR pair is expected to quote in the range of 71.05 and 71.50,” Motilal Oswal Financial Services said.

The rupee fell against the US dollar after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near zero per cent in an emergency move amid the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

The last time forex reserves declined was in the week to September 20, 2019, when it had fallen by $388 million to $428.58 billion.

The rupee, which opened on a positive note at 75.90, settled for the day with gains of 78 paise at 75.16 against the American currency.

The emergence of new business environment in the wake of Covid-19 is expected to boost cloud services and digitisation as companies overhaul their digital infrastructure to deal with new ways of working, they said.

The company has already started operations in the Middle East, with the re-opening of 9 standalone showrooms in UAE and 3 showrooms in Qatar on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. Kalyan Jewellers will be following the highest level of safety and precautionary measures across operational showrooms, to safeguard the health and safety of both customers and staff alike.

The country's largest domestic airlines had on Friday announced pay cut ranging between 5 and 25 per cent.

Shramik special trains were run from May 1 on the request of different state governments. The railways has suspended passenger, mail and express trains to combat the spread of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) since March 24.

PE firm Vista Equity to invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio Platforms after Facebook and Silver Lake.

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written to union steel minister, asking him to instruct the public-sector enterprise under his ministry to act "responsibly in a crisis". Since NMDC had "diverted the corporate social responsibility fund of people of Chhattisgarh to the newly created PM Cares fund", it could also pay up the Rs 1,023 crore it owed the state for mining violations, the letter said.

Construction groups have received permission to restart work in the National Capital Region, after getting permission from local authorities and fulfilling government mandated conditions.​​ The companies have imposed a ban on gutka, pan masala, pan and any form of tobacco at their sites to maintain hygiene.