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India plans to seek cabinet approval to sell a 25% stake in the country’s largest life insurer, people with knowledge of the matter said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks resources to fill a growing budget gap. The government plans to amend the law of parliament establishing the Life Insurance …

YEREVAN: Azerbaijani and Armenian forces claimed to have inflicted heavy losses as fighting raged for a third day on Tuesday in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno Karabakh. Renewed calls by the United States, repeated by Germany and Russia, to stop the fierce clashes that erupted on Sunday, were not …

Mumbai: Maharashtra reported 14,976 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, and with that, the count is now up to 13.66,129. In addition, 430 people succumbed to the infection, claiming the death toll due to COVID-19 at 36,181. The number of active cases now stands at 2,60,363 according to the latest …

NEW DELHI: Criminal defender Krishan Pal Tewatia has never received so many phone calls in a single day as on Monday, and he has never received so many unknown visitors at his home in Sihi village in Sector 8 of Faridabad, near Delhi. Reason: His only son and the latest …

It emerged that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) told the state-owned Punjab National Bank to prepare to take over Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) in case the transaction proposed by the troubled lender with Clix Capital does not materialize. In addition to PNB, another public sector bank was asked to …

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, 71, announced Tuesday night that he tested positive for coronavirus. He told HT that he was fine and that initial tests showed no major complications. In fact, Naidu addressed an annual virtual health care conference on “Post-COVID Healthcare World” on Tuesday night. Minutes after he finished …

Lufthansa said it will have to cancel all flights due to India’s rejection of its flight schedule (Archive) New Delhi: The German airline Lufthansa, one of the world’s largest operators, canceled all flights to India between September 30 and October 20 after a dispute with the government over the number …

Global deaths from Covid-19 have reached 1 million, but experts are still struggling to uncover a crucial metric in the pandemic: the death rate, the percentage of people infected with the pathogen who die. Here’s a look at the issues related to a better understanding of the Covid-19 death rate. …

NEW DELHI: A disagreement between India and Germany on the question of flights being operated under the air bubble of the two countries has led Lufthansa cancel all of its planned flights to India that were supposed to operate from Wednesday (September 30) to October 20. The mega-airline says the …

NEW DELHI: It was estimated that one in 15 people 10 years of age or older would be exposed to Covid-19 in August 2020, according to the results of the second ICMR sero-survey released Tuesday. The survey showed that a sizeable population is still susceptible to infection, suggesting that there …