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States used Rs 1,460 cr from district mineral foundation fund to curb Covid

District Mineral Foundation (DMF) is a non-profit statutory trust, which has been set up for the welfare of the districts affected by mining-related activities.

Toyota cuts June output plan again due to chip shortage and China lockdown

Toyota said there was "a possibility" that it could lower its full-year production plan of 9.7 million vehicles.

Taiwan revises down 2022 GDP growth forecast hit by Covid, inflation

Gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to rise 3.91% this year, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said, down from 4.42% growth forecast in February.

Data story: India logs 2,710 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,539

India has so far administered 1,929,774,973 vaccine doses

China's industrial profits slump in April as Covid curbs squeeze firms

Industrial output from the commercial hub of Shanghai, located at the heart of manufacturing in the Yangtze River Delta, nosedived 61.5% in April

China logs 80 new local Covid-19 cases, 45 in Shanghai; 22 in Beijing

A total of 216 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, the National Health Commission said in its Friday report

Chinese tech firms forced into 'blood listings' as capital dries up

Public offerings at slashed valuations could translate into losses for venture capitalists in late funding rounds

Dominant coronavirus mutant in US contains ghost of pandemic past

The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity

WHO: Covid-19 cases and deaths mostly dropping, except for the Americas

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organisation said. In its latest weekly assessment of the pandemic, the UN health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3% and 11% respectively. COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific. Deaths increased by 30% in the Middle East, but were stable or decreased everywhere else. WHO said it is tracking all omicron subvariants as variants of concern. It noted that countries which had a significant wave of disease caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2 appeared to be less affected by other subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which were responsible for the latest surge of disease in South Africa. Salim Abdool Karim, an infectious diseases expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said it appeared that South Africa had passed its most recent wave of COVID-19 caused

Maharashtra daily Covid case count crosses 500-mark, highest since March 5

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 511 fresh coronavirus positive cases, the highest single day count since March 5, and one fatality, the health department said. With this addition, the state's COVID-19 tally rose to 78,84,329 and toll to 1,47,858. On Wednesday, the state had recorded 470 cases and zero fatality. Mumbai recorded 350 new cases. On March 5, the state had witnessed 535 cases of the respiratory disease and the fresh tally of 511 was the highest in a 24-hour span since then. There are 2,361 active cases in the state at present, the department said. Nandurbar, Dhule, Latur, Hingoli, Akola, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Wardha and Gondia district do not have any active case at present. . The only fatality in the state was reported from Beed. The state's case fatality rate stands at 1.87 per cent. A total of 324 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally of patients to 77,34,110. The state's recovery rate stands at 98.09 per cent. Th

Alibaba reports slowest growth yet in March quarter amid Covid outbreaks

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Thursday reported a single-digit increase in its fourth-quarter revenue, its slowest quarter yet as its online services and e-commerce businesses took a hit amid Covid-19

Mumbai logs 350 new Covid cases, highest daily count since Feb 11

Mumbai on Thursday recorded 350 new coronavirus positive cases, its highest single-day count since February 11 this year, although nobody died due to the infection during the day, the BMC said

Covid-19: 403 new cases, one more death in Delhi; positivity rate 1.76%

Delhi reported 403 fresh Covid cases and one more fatality on Thursday, while the positivity rate stood at 1.76 per cent, according to the data shared by the health department here.

Live: Modi launches 11 projects worth over Rs 31,400 cr, speaks in Chennai

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Alibaba beats revenue estimates on demand for niche China shopping services

The company, however, said it would not issue a forecast for the new fiscal year, citing pandemic-related risks and uncertainties

Vaccines may not be able to ward off long Covid risk, finds study

Previous studies claimed that vaccination, which remains critically important in the fight against Covid-19, wards off the long Covid risk

Global Covid caseload tops 527.2 million, deaths cross 6.28 million

India accounts for the second highest caseload at 43,142,192

China's Premier offers bleak outlook as hope of meeting GDP target fades

Latest official data showed a contraction in industrial output for the first time since 2020 and a jump in the surveyed jobless rate to 6.1% in April, close to a record

Delhi records 424 fresh Covid cases, 4 deaths; positivity rate at 1.89%

A total of 22,490 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the national capital the previous day, the department said in its latest bulletin

WEF 2022: Advanced economies to be back on track by 2024, says Gopinath

Advanced economies will be back on track by 2024, but developing economies will be 5 per cent below where they would have been otherwise, IMF's Gita Gopinath said