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Rupee Vs Dollar Today: At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 73.83 and registered an intra-day high of 73.76. The rupee rose for the second consecutive day gaining 10 paise against the US dollar on Tuesday, May 4, to settle at 73.85 amid dollar selling by traders. Also, high crude oil prices and losses in domestic equities restricted the gain for local unit today. At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 73.83 and registered an intra-day high of 73.76. It witnessed a low of 73.97. In…

Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Registration SMS Message in Circulation, Aims to Install Malicious App

Users are recommended to not pay attention to any such messages or install any third-party apps for COVID-19 vaccine registrations. A fake SMS message is in circulation that falsely claims to offer an app to let users register for COVID-19 vaccine in India. However, instead of providing a legitimate way to register for the vaccination, the app is aimed at propagating malware via SMS messages once it is installed on a mobile device. The malicious app was initially named COVID-19, though it later received an update that renamed it as…

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Baidu’s Apollo Launching Driverless Ride-Hailing Service In China

Baidu’s Apollo is one of the pioneers of autonomous self driving carsBaidu’s Apollo has joined the likes of Alibaba owned AutoX and Alphabet-owned Waymo to deploy a driverless ride-hailing service. Last week, the Baidu subsidiary launched its autonomous driverless ride-sharing service in China’s capital Beijing. It is the first to operate at scale in China which shouldn’t be surprising. Baidu has a long tradition of following Google’s path and after the mountain view-based company developed self deriving car technology, Baidu was soon to follow its muse. Baidu calls the service Apollo…

Amarinder Singh Writes To PM Modi For 50 Metric Tonnes Of Additional Oxygen

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh also sought their immediate intervention for 20 additional tankers (preferably conducive to rail travel) for timely evacuation of LMO from Bokaro. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday requested for allocation of an additional 50 metric tonnes (MT) liquid medical oxygen (LMO) to the state, amid the oxygen crisis due to surge in COVID-19. He also sought their immediate intervention for 20 additional tankers (preferably conducive to rail…

Delhi Police Arrests 91 For Black Marketing Of Drugs For Covid Treatment

The top cop also said that 425 Remdesivir injections, 90 Favipiravir tablets, 213 oxygen cylinders, 225 oxygen concentrators and 82 oxygen flow regulators were seized by the security personnel. The Delhi Police has registered over 70 cases in connection with hoarding and black-marketing of medicines and medical equipment amid COVID-19 outbreak and arrested 91 people, officials said on Tuesday. According to the data tweeted by Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava on Tuesday, 13 oximeters, 18 oxy pumps, two Remdesivir empty injections, three ambulances, nine open pressure regulators, 213 pulse oximeters,…

Full Advance For Covishield Vaccine Released To Serum On April 28: Centre

The amount, which after TDS was ₹ 1699.50 crore, was received by the SII on April 28 itself, it said. The Health Ministry on Monday said that 100 per cent advance of ₹ 1732.50 crore was released to the Serum Institute of India on April 28 for 11 crore doses of Covishield vaccine during May, June and July. The amount, which after TDS was ₹ 1699.50 crore, was received by the SII on April 28 itself, it said. As on date, against the last order of 10 crore doses for supplies of Covishield vaccine, 8.744 crore…

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US Secretary Of State Presents New North Korea Approach During G7 Meet

Britain welcomed foreign ministers of the club of wealthy democracies to London to discuss a post-pandemic agenda and prepare for a G7 summit in southwest England next month. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday opened the Group of Seven’s first in-person talks in two years by presenting the new administration’s fresh approach on North Korea, which has already denounced it. With Covid raging in India but increasingly coming under control in the West, Britain welcomed foreign ministers of the club of wealthy democracies to London to discuss a…

“No One Should Die”: Volunteers Provide Oxygen As India’s Covid Tally Nears 2 Crore

The health ministry said positive cases relative to the number of tests fell on Monday for the first time since at India’s tally of coronavirus infections rose on Monday to just short of 20 million, propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 3,00,000 new cases, as scientists predicted the pandemic could peak in the next couple of days. Total infections since the start of the pandemic have reached 19.93 million, swelled by 3,68,147 new cases over the past 24 hours, while the deaths rose by 3,417 to 2,18,959, health ministry…

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Ashok Leyland To Scale Down Operations At Plants This Month Due To COVID-19 Surge