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Enabling policies, proactive steps helped deal with pandemic: FM Sitharaman

She said over the past two years,retail investors have found online means to access the stock market and Sebi has a role to play in investor education

Mumbai logs 1,765 new Covid cases, highest since Jan 26; active count at 7k

Mumbai on Wednesday recorded 1,765 new COVID-19 cases, its highest single day count since January 26, but did not report any fatality linked to the infection during the day, the city civic body said. There were 523 more cases on Wednesday as compared to the previous day, when the city had logged 1,242 infections. With this, the metropolis recorded a 42 per cent rise in the number of cases. On January 26, Mumbai had seen 1,858 cases and 13 fatalities. With a sharp rise in the daily COVID-19 cases, the active caseload in the city climbed to 7,000, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin. Mumbai's overall tally of COVID 19 cases increased to 10,73,541 with 1765 new cases, but the death toll remained unchanged at 19,569 as no death occurred in the last 24 hours, it said. The city's COVID-19 positivity rate is 0.091 per cent. A total of 19,185 tests were carried out in the metropolis during the day, taking its overall test count to 1,72,27,178. Of the 1,765

South Korea reports 13,358 new Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 18,188,200

South Korea reported 13,358 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,188,200, the health authorities said

Covid cases falling nearly everywhere except Middle east and SE Asia: WHO

The number of new Covid cases reported globally fell everywhere except the Middle East and Southeast Asia last week, according to a World Health Organisation weekly report released Wednesday.

Covid-19: 564 new cases, one more death in Delhi; positivity rate 2.84%

Delhi recorded 564 Covid cases, the highest since May 15, and one more fatality on Wednesday, while the positivity rate rose to 2.84 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here.

Gujarat's daily Covid-19 tally tops 100 for time in three months

Gujarat on Wednesday recorded 111 new cases of coronavirus, crossing the 100 mark for the first time in three months, and raising the tally of infections to 12,25,698, an official said

Covid pandemic impact: When technology marries school education

Under the Digital India initiative, the government has taken extensive steps to boost digital education activities

Live: Lawrence Bishnoi 'mastermind' in Moose Wala murder, says police

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Maharashtra reports 2,701 new Covid cases, highest in nearly four months

Mumbai on Wednesday recorded 1,765 new Covid cases, its highest single-day count since January 26

After lockdown, Shanghai tries to mend fences with foreign firms

The image of China's most cosmopolitan city and its biggest business hub was badly damaged by the two-month lockdown

Moderna's new booster produces stronger response against Omicron

Moderna has been studying the so-called bivalent vaccine, which targets both Omicron and the original coronavirus strain to determine if it works better against the variant

Govt policies, proactive steps helped India deal with Covid: FM Sitharaman

Enabling policies and proactive steps taken by the government, including tax cuts helped the country deal with the unprecedented situation arising due to the pandemic, said FM Sitharaman

Long Covid may negatively impact performance at work, says report

Facing memory, attention and concentration problems at work post Covid infection? A new study shows individuals, who had contracted Covid-19, reported significantly more cognitive failures at work.

Oil prices rise despite US inventory hike as China eases Covid lockdowns

Oil prices have risen backing on Chinese expectations as it unlocks cities. Even though US inventory hikes, oil prices rose parallely, possibly due to a strike by Norwegian workers.

Analysts see RBI taking policy rates well above pre-pandemic levels by Mar

Citing the aggressive wording to tame inflation, analysts expect the Reserve Bank to deliver more rate hikes during the current fiscal and take key policy rates to well above the pre-pandemic levels

India's growth to enhance once cloud of pandemic, conflict recedes: CEA

The impact of structural reforms, like GST and IBC, will help boost India's growth once the cloud of the pandemic and geopolitical conflict recedes, Chief Economic Advisor Anantha Nageswaran said

World Bank warns of recession as Ukraine war hits already rocked economies

Countries around the world are facing recession as the Ukraine war hits economies already rocked by the Covid pandemic, the World Bank has warned, BBC reported.

Covid positive Sonia Gandhi seeks more time from ED, to skip summon today

Congress president Sonia Gandhi may not appear before the Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Wednesday and has sought more time from the agency as she has not tested Covid-19 negative.

Karnataka sees spike in Covid infections, 348 cases reported after 3 months

The number of fresh Covid cases have been steadily increasing in Karnataka. After a gap of three months as many as 348 new cases have been reported min a span of 24 hours

Thane reports 313 new Covid-19 infections; death toll stands at 11,895

With the addition of 313 new COVID-19 cases, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 7,11,626, an official said on Wednesday.