lockdown

Govt allocates Rs 40,000 cr more for MGNREGS

100 migrant workers held in Silvassa for rioting

8:07 pm May 6, 2020

Silvassa: Seeking to return home amid the coronavirus lockdown, a group of over a 100 migrant workers turned violent near Silvassa town of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli on Tuesday night, police said. One hundred workers, most of them from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested from the spot for rioting and stone-pelting, an […]

Plan prepared to vaccinate all adults in 3 months: CM Kejriwal

Won’t stop clinical trials of plasma therapy as initial results are good: Kejriwal

9:25 pm May 1, 2020

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the Delhi government will not stop clinical trials of plasma therapy to treat severally-ill COVID-19 patients as its initial results are good. The announcement came days after the centre said that plasma therapy for treatment of coronavirus patients is at an experimental stage and it has […]

As cost cutting measure, Railways stops British-era practice of using Dak messengers

Railways to run ‘Shramik Special’ trains to move migrant workers, other stranded persons

9:13 pm May 1, 2020

New Delhi: The Indian Railways decided to run “Shramik Special” trains from “Labour Day” on Friday to move migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons stranded at different places due to lock down as per the guideline issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs. These special trains will be run from point to point […]

Lockdown: Man cycling from Maha to reach UP home dies in MP

7:41 pm May 1, 2020

Barwani (MP): A 50-year-old man died in Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh after cycling over 390 kilometres to get home from Bhiwandi in Maharashtra to Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh, those accompanying him said on Friday. Tabarat Mansoori had gone to Bhiwandi looking for work but could not find any due to the lockdown imposed for the […]

NYSE: Stocks turn choppy as investors weigh earnings, recovery

Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from coronavirus

8:14 am May 1, 2020

New York: Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbed past a staggering 30 million, while Europe’s economies have gone into an epic slide. And as bad as the numbers are, some are already outdated because of the lag in […]