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Sensex drops over 300 pts; IT stocks tank

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Equity benchmark Sensex dropped over 300 points in opening trade on Thursday tracking losses in global markets as investors fretted over rising number of Covid-19 cases and its impact on the world economy.   After hitting a low of 30,016.17, the 30-share index was trading 336.77 points or 1.11 per cent lower at 30,043.04. Similarly, the NSE Nifty was quoting 81.10 points, or 0.91 per cent, down at 8,844.20. Infosys was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, shedding up to 4 per cent, followed by Kotak Bank, Hero MotoCorp,…

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US has ‘passed the peak’ on new coronavirus cases, says Trump

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The US has “passed the peak” on new coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump has said and predicted that some states would reopen this month. The US has over 637,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and over 30,826 deaths, the highest for any country in the world. At the daily White House coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Trump said new guidelines to reopen the country would be announced on Thursday after he speaks to governors. “We’ll be the comeback kids, all of us,” he said. “We want to get our country back.” The Trump…

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India needs to step up coronavirus testing: experts

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India needs to “significantly ramp up” the number of tests done across the country to trace COVID-19 infection if the virus is to be contained in time, experts said. The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 in the country on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 10,477, as many as 1,488 people have been cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said. Data obtained from the Indian Council of Medical Research…

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SC considers Centre’s stand on helping poor during lockdown, disposes PIL seeking relief

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The Supreme Court took note of the Centre’s submission on Wednesday that it was taking steps to implement relief measures to help the poor during the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and disposed of a PIL seeking relief such as financial help and food for them. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana recorded the statement of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who explained the steps taken by the centre to address the concerns raised in the petition. The apex court, through video conferencing, was hearing the PIL…

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Laxman hits back at Clarke, says just being nice doesn’t guarantee a place in IPL

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Former India batsman VVS Laxman took a jibe at Michael Clarke for his recent claims that Australian cricketers “sucked up” to India captain Virat Kohli for protecting their IPL contracts, saying just being nice to someone doesn’t guarantee a spot in the cash-rich tournament.   Clarke, a former Australian captain, raised several eyebrows after he claimed that there was a phase when Australian cricketers were so keen on protecting their IPL deals that they felt “scared” of sledging India skipper Kohli and his teammates and instead “sucked up” to them.…

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If you rest, you rust: Jaaved Jaaferi on his prolific career in TV and cinema

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Ask a 1990s kid about Jaaved Jaaferi and such is his impact on the now grown-up generation that not one person will come up with the same answer about the multi-hyphenate personality. More than a household name, Jaaferi, is a part of childhood nostalgia of many. “I was really lucky and blessed to be in projects which actually worked across time,” he told PTI in an interview. As an actor, Jaaferi made his feature film debut in 1985’s “Meri Jung”, starring Anil Kapoor and Meenakshi Sheshadri. It was probably the…

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Trump names six Indian-Americans to Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups

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President Donald Trump has named six Indian-American corporate leaders, including Sunder Pichai from Google and Satya Nadella from Microsoft, to his Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups formed to revive the US economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has roped in over 200 top American leaders from various industries and sections to create nearly a dozen and half different groups, who will advise him and offer recommendations on how to revive the American economy, which has hit an unprecedented ebb in just a few weeks due to the deadly…

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Health Ministry identifies 170 districts in India as hotspots, 207 as potential hotspots

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The Union Health Ministry has identified 170 districts as COVID-19 hotspots and 207 districts as potential hotspots, officials said on Wednesday, reiterating that there has been no community transmission of the disease in the country so far Addressing the daily briefing to provide updates on coronavirus situation in the country, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said that states have been asked to classify districts which have reported a higher number of cases as hotspots, the districts where cases have been reported as non-hotspots, and green zones…

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Growth will see strong rebound from Q2 FY21: Niti VC

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India’s GDP growth will see strong recovery from the second quarter of this fiscal as economic activities resume, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Wednesday.   He also expressed hope that the government will unveil fiscal measures to jumpstart growth, which has plummeted due to the Covid-19 crisis. In an interview with news channel CNBC-TV18, Kumar said April would be a washout in terms of economic activity, though all has not been lost for agriculture. “Once economic activity starts in the second quarter, I think you will see…

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SC considers Centre’s stand on helping poor during lockdown, disposes PIL seeking relief

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The Supreme Court took note of the Centre’s submission on Wednesday that it was taking steps to implement relief measures to help the poor during the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and disposed of a PIL seeking relief such as financial help and food for them. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana recorded the statement of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who explained the steps taken by the centre to address the concerns raised in the petition. The apex court, through video conferencing, was hearing the PIL…

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