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Jammu and Kashmir L-G approves financial incentives for Covid-19 warriors

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday approved special financial incentives for Covid-19 Warriors of Health and Medical Education Department of the union territory

Recovery tracker: Power generation growth slows down, mobility hit

People back to spending more time at home

Insurers see adverse impact of Covid-19 claims on their loss ratio

Indian insurers had not factored in the impact of Covid claims while underwriting their products

RBI's LEF, forex intervention and Covid-19 push up short-term premium

Rates spike when there are huge dollars in the cash market but not enough takers to swap for a future date

E-way bills likely to fall to five-month low amid Covid-19 lockdown

Likely to decline to 55-58 million in April

European Union looks to open borders after a year of pandemic isolation

Travel to the European Union is currently extremely limited except for a handful of countries with low infection rates

Enough capacity to increase Covid-19 tests in Mumbai: Diagnostic labs

BMC chief expressed concern after daily tests dropped to 28,000 on Sunday

SpiceXpress airlifts 700 oxygen concentrators from Guangzhou to New Delhi

SpiceXpress, the air cargo arm of SpiceJet, on Monday transported 700 oxygen concentrators from Guangzhou (China) to New Delhi amid acute shortage of medical oxygen in the country in the wake of massive spike in the number of Coronavirus infection cases pan-India.

Practo aims to vaccinate over 10 million as India fights coronavirus

Practo announces 'Corporate Suraksha' programme under which employees from over 1,000 corporates across India will be vaccinated in first round

Covid-19: Introduce 'work from home' to break the chain, says CII chief

Several companies have already announced WFH even as several key cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore go through a massive healthcare crisis due to lack of oxygen, doctors and medicines

Discussions on with India for 'expedited approval' of Covid vaccine: Pfizer

'We are currently discussing with the Indian government an expedited approval pathway to make our Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available for use in the country,' says Pfizer CEO in a LinkedIn post

DATA STORY: India reports 3,417 Covid deaths in a day, 368,147 cases added to tally

India has so far administered 157,198,207 vaccine doses. That is 788.93 per cent of its total caseload, and 11.29 per cent of its population

Covid-19 second wave: Can India find a way out of its health nightmare?

The health system in India has broken down, with scarcities in everything from hospital beds to oxygen, says Virologist Shahid Jameel in an interview with Bobby Ghosh

CSK bowling coach Balaji's testing positive puts Delhi IPL games in fix

While DDCA president Rohan Jaitley told PTI that he hasn't been informed about any re-scheduling the problem is CSK having played Mumbai Indians last Saturday

There is no going back now: Teams after Covid breaches IPL's bubble

Questions are being raised on how a strict bio-bubble created for the world's biggest T20 league was breached after KKR's Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier got infected with the deadly virus

Covid LIVE: Postpone all offline exams scheduled in May, says Education Min

Coronavirus live updates | Statewise list of fresh Covid-19 cases: Maharashtra reported 56,647 infections, followed by Karnataka (37,733), Uttar Pradesh (30,983). Stay tuned for corona-related news

No room for vaccine nationalism, developed countries need to share tech: FM

India on Monday asked the developed nations to share technology and allow free movement of critical components and raw material needed for production of vaccines

Will consider total lockdown if people don't follow curbs: Punjab CM

A day after ordering more state-wide curbs, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday warned he will be forced to consider a total lockdown

Make public details of all foreign aid and where it's going: Congress to PM

The Congress on Monday demanded transparency in the distribution of aid during the Covid-19 pandemic

AIIMS chief warns CT scan in mild Covid cases may do more harm than good

The AIIMS chief on Monday warned against rushing for CT scan in cases of mild COVID-19, saying it has side effects and can end up doing more harm than good.