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West Bengal coronavirus update: State reports 55 deaths, 2,974 fresh cases

The COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal rose to 2,964 after 55 people succumbed to the disease, a bulletin issued by the health department said

Maharashtra coronavirus update: State reports 14,888 new cases, 295 deaths

Maharashtra, which is worst affected by the pandemic, reported 14,888 new COVID-19 cases and 295 deaths on Wednesday

Assam coronavirus update: State reports highest 24-hour jump in deaths

Assam reported its highest single-day spike of 14 COVID-19 deaths, taking the overall toll to 274, while 2,179 new infections pushed the total cases to 96,771

Bihar coronavirus update: Tally rises to 126,989; death toll mounts to 653

Bihar's Covid-19 caseload rose to over 126,000 as 2,163 more people tested positive for the infection, while nine fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 653

Maharashtra coronavirus update: 3,244 new cases in Pune district, 62 deaths

Pune district reported 3,244 new coronavirus cases since previous evening which took its case count to 1,53,141, a health official said on Wednesday

Job losses loom as Vanguard Group closes Hong Kong, Japan operations

The largest mutual fund company, with roughly $6 trillion in assets under management, said in a statement its Hong Kong business mostly served institutional clients and not retail investors

Covid-19: Germany extends 10 billion euro relief to preserve workforce

The German economy contracted at its steepest rate on record in the second quarter and the government is desperate to mitigate the effects of the pandemic as much as possible

France govt gives hints on stimulus plan to be unveiled next week

Measures will include 2 billion euros for the cultural sector, Prime Minister Jean Castex said in an interview on France Inter radio

Covid-19: Japan govt signals push to re-open economy, boost stimulus

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga also dismissed speculation that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may step down for health reasons

China will release funds to local govts more quickly to boost economy

The government has said it would set up special transfer payments of 2 trillion yuan ($289.72 billion) from special treasury bonds

Counsellors, students grapple with uncertainty amid Covid-19 pandemic

With most universities moving courses online, students are weighing their options between foregoing the campus experience or taking a gap year and pursuing a short-term course or an internship

Accenture plans to lay off 5% of global workforce; Indians set to lose jobs

Accenture has a global workforce of around 513,000 people and out of them about 200,000 are in India

An argument with reality

The present lockdown is similar to autumn, which symbolises the time when 'everything falls away'

Covid-19 crisis: Right time for radical change, says Maruti's RC Bhargava

"The first thing is that there has to be a national consensus on the need to grow manufacturing and on the need to create jobs," he said

Difficulty in beating index a sign of maturity of Indian markets: Expert

"Mid caps and small caps are much more exposed to the uncertainties related to the pandemic, so it would be harder to find value and avoid mistakes"

Don't hide behind RBI, clarify your stand on loan moratorium: SC to govt

A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the government had failed to clear its position on the issue despite the fact that ample powers were available with it under the Disaster Management Act

Covid-19 disease can affect almost all organs, say experts at AIIMS

Not just the lungs, COVID-19 can affect almost all organs and the initial symptoms may be totally unrelated to chest complaints, experts at AIIMS here said on Wednesday. They stressed that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based just on respiratory symptoms should be relooked to include other organ involvement. Experts from the institute, including its director Dr Randeep Guleria, Dr MV Padma Srivastava, head of department of Neurology, Dr Ambuj Roy, Professor of Cardiology and Dr Neeraj Nischal, Associate Professor in the department of Medicine during their their weekly 'National Clinical Grand Rounds' organised in collaboration with NITI Aayog discussed various possible extra-pulmonary complications of COVID-19. Dr Guleria said eight months into COVID-19, a lot has been learnt and accordingly strategies are being changed from time to time. From what we thought of as a viral pneumonia has a lot of other manifestations which are beyondthe lungs, he .

Explained: Why inflation is so high in India and where it is headed

It isn't just protein diet and cereals that are becoming expensive despite bumper output the past few years; even personal care products and recreation have surprisingly become very costly

India will need to find jobs for additional 90 mn, says McKinsey report

The figures do not include 55 million women who may come back to the labour force to "partially correct the historical underrepresentation"

Covid-19-led digital adoption leading to rise in cyber frauds: Report

UPI transactions crossed 1.49 billion in volume and $41 billion in transaction value in July