Tag Archives: COVID-19

[ad_1] By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: May 8, 2020 2:00:21 pm People queue outside a liquor store in Kolkata after the lockdown relaxations were announced. (Partha Paul express photo / File) The Supreme Court noted Friday that states should consider selling liquor through non-contact means, such …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI :: The first Air India flight that took off from Singapore with stranded Indian nationals landed at Delhi airport on Friday afternoon. “Seeing people coming home is the best feeling for #DelhiAirport. Here’s a look at the first AI381 evacuation flight to #Delhi that landed a short …

[ad_1] MUMBAI: An assistant general manager working with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) tested positive for covid-19, prompting the market regulator to close its headquarters for three days, according to two people familiar with the developments. The regulator also asked its employees not to attend the office …

[ad_1] Odisha saw an increase in the number of positive coronavirus cases as 26 people tested positive on Friday bringing the state’s Covid-19-affected numbers to 245. 25 of these new cases have recently returned from Surat. 19 of the 26 people who tested positive for Covid-19 are from the Ganjam …

[ad_1] The Union Ministry of the Environment decided to extend the deadline for sending public comments on the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification until June 30. Several environmental groups and the Opposition have been demanding that the time period for public comments, which expires on May 22, be extended. …

[ad_1] At least 22 migrant workers, who had returned from Telangana, fled a quarantine center in the Maoist-affected Dantewada district of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Thursday night. Dantewada district collector Topeshwar Verma told the Hindustan Times that farm workers were quarantined about 12 km from their hometown of …

[ad_1] As governments prepare to open economic activity across India, they need to determine the areas where blockages can be relaxed and where they should be extended. This depends on a single metric: the extent of the spread of the COVID outbreak. There is only one way to measure it: …

[ad_1] Congressman Rahul Gandhi said Friday that the government needs to inform people of its strategy to open up the country and the economy after the Covid-19 shutdown ends on May 17. “The government now has to give a little transparency in its actions. We need to understand, when they …

[ad_1] The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has “advised” the Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund to focus on returning the money that is stuck after the settlement of the six debt schemes to its investors. The regulator, in a late release Thursday, defended its October circular that required liquid …

[ad_1] Written by Krishn Kaushik , Manoj C G The | New Delhi | Posted: May 7, 2020 4:48:27 AM Aarogya Setu is a contact tracking application developed by the National Center for Informatics (NIC) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. (Express photo: Sneha Saha) On Wednesday, Congress …