BUSINESS

Bankers panel asks certain staff to work from home

11:38 pm April 21, 2021

Bengaluru: In view of the rise in COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, the State-level Bankers Committee (SLBC) has asked employees with co-morbidities, pregnant women and persons with disability to work from home and announced change in business hours The SLBC Karnataka convener and Canara Bank general manager B Chandrasekhara Rao, in a letter, told the State […]

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

Delhi HC: If Tatas can divert oxygen they are generating for their steel plants to medical use, why can’t others?

10:46 pm April 21, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to ”forthwith” provide oxygen by whatever means to the hospitals in the national capital which are treating serious COVID-19 patients and are facing scarcity of oxygen. ”Why is the Centre not waking up to the gravity of the situation? We are shocked and dismayed […]

Economic interests cannot override human lives, cut down industrial use of oxygen immediately: HC

7:33 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that economic interests cannot override human lives and suggested some reduction in steel and petroleum production to divert oxygen to COVID-19 patients. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said if the lockdown continues then everything would come to a halt and therefore, what […]

National lockdown can dent GDP growth by 2%, states should do with local curbs: Report

10:47 pm April 19, 2021

Mumbai: A month’s national lockdown can hurt GDP growth by 2 percentage points, an American brokerage warned on Monday while expecting governments to continue with localised restrictions to arrest the Covid spread.Stating that there has been a 7x jump in the new cases to 2.61 lakh a day from a month ago’s 35,000 cases, analysts […]

Tourism ministry signs MoU with Cleartrip, Ease My Trip

9:19 pm April 16, 2021

New Delhi: In its ongoing effort to strengthen the hospitality and tourism industry amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Tourism has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cleartrip and Ease My Trip, it said on Friday. The MoU was inked on Thursday. “The primary objective of this MoU is to provide extensive visibility […]