With Kolkata witnessing a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases ahead of Durga Puja, organizers have decided to cancel all cultural programs that used to be held in all locations on puja days to avoid overcrowding. This comes at a time when doctors warned Mamata Banerjee’s administration that laxity during bidding …
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Continuing a steady downward trend, India recorded 73,272 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. While the number of recent deaths was 926, bringing the death count to 107,416, according to figures released by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. The number of active cases stood at 883,185. Up …
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The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert has said that European governments must take decisive action to halt the transmission of the coronavirus, including by slowing down massive rallies, to avoid more painful lockdowns. Europe surpassed 100,000 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time on Thursday, after countries like …
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India may be heading towards the seven million mark in terms of the number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), but the daily count has been slowly declining. And in other good news, the number of active cases in the country has dropped below the nine lakh mark for the …
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday revised its GDP growth estimate for 2020-21 to -9.5%, down from the August estimate of -4.5% given in its annual report, indicating the pain that the economy is likely to suffer this year due to the coronavirus disease. RBI tends to be …
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US President Donald Trump will give a public address at the White House on Saturday for the first time since testing positive for Covid-19, and will also hold a rally in Florida next week in an attempt to relaunch his shaky campaign. reelection with only 25 days to go. Come …
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FILE – This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows particles of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the US, which emerge from the surface of cells grown in a laboratory. (NIAID-RML via …
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A man checks his phone outside the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Mumbai. (REUTERS / Francis Mascarenhas / Archives) The monetary policy committee (MPC) kept the repurchase rate, its key interest rate, at 4%, while the reverse repurchase rate or the key interest rate remained at …
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The bill would establish a commission to assess the president’s ability to lead the country and ensure the continuity of the government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation on October 9 that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president, insisting that …
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People wait in line at a Covid-19 testing site in Beijing. (AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein) China, in addition to denying US allegations that COVID-19 has emerged from a biological laboratory in Wuhan, also denied that it emanated from a wet market in the central Chinese city of bats or …
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