Stock Market LIVE Updates on July 1: ITC, followed by Axis Bank, HDFC, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, SBI and Reliance Industries were among the top gainers in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, NTPC, Kotak Bank, L&T, ONGC and Nestle India were among the laggards

In just five months, the COVID-19 death toll has overtaken the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the most deadly infectious diseases

\"These entities are not independent news organisations. They are effectively controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, also known as propaganda outlets,\" US State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said

Glenmark developed active pharmaceutical ingredient and formulation for FabiFlu through in-house R&D; DCGI allowed fasttrack trials with Phase III in limited patients; approval process is also under Emergency Use Authorisation

According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the US has reported nearly 1.9 million cases and over 1,09,000 deaths while the total number of coronavirus cases in India and China stand at 2,36,184 and 84,177 respectively

Earlier, Prime Minister Modi in a series of tweets on Tuesday said that he had a warm and productive conversation with his friend Trump

Air India brought 3,891 people from Dubai, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Bahrain, Salalah, Moscow, Kiev, Madrid, Tokyo, Dhaka, Bishkek, Almaty, Riyadh and Dammam on June 1

Earlier, according to the regulations issued by the Indian government in April, visas of foreign nationals and OCI cards were suspended as part of the new international travel restrictions following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though the government's SAUBHAGYA scheme claims to have provided connections to 100 per cent households, that is not sufficient. Under this scheme, the beneficiary households were provided only one LED light and one power plug, says Shailendra Roy

Coronavirus India live updates: Lockdown has been extended to contain spread of COVID-19; fresh guidelines has also been issued, says the National Disaster Management Authority

There appears to be no distinction in terms of containment measures for the evacuees taking into account the state of the pandemic abroad

Even though there may be a need for both monetary and fiscal measures, combining them distorts the picture. Hence, including monetary measures such as liquidity in the stimulus of 10 per cent of GDP alongside monetary measures is not ideal.

Shortage of coronavirus testing has long been a sore spot for the president, but he insisted anew that everyone who wants a test can get one

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today:  Germany's DAX turned green, following bullish trend in London's FTSE. SGX Nifty in Asia also turned flat with positive bias. Japan's Nikkie, China's Shanghai and Korea's Kospi also erased earlier losses and were trading marginally lower.

With the COVID-19 pandemic normalising long-term work from home for many organisations, the report suggests that 55 per cent of organisations turn to service providers for their ability to help 'reduce security risks' with value-added service they offer

The Labor Department said Friday that 20.5 million jobs vanished in April in the worst monthly loss on record, triggered by coast-to-coast shutdowns of factories, stores, offices and other businesses

More than 78,400 people with COVID-19 have died in the United States and more than 1.3 million people have tested positive, according to the latest estimates from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Coronavirus vaccine: World leaders and organisations, except the United States, have already pledged $8 billion to research, manufacture and distribute a possible vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 apart from the individual efforts taken by the countries and its pharmaceutical firms

Corona lockdown live updates: Union Home Ministry said new guidelines to fight COVID-19 will come into effect from May 4, which shall give considerable relaxations to many districts; India saw 1,813 new cases and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours

While the legality of the issue will get sorted out in the coming days, one thing is certain that the scramble for a share in the thriving business of rapid diagnostic kit supplies for COVID-19 is leaving several grey areas for potential legal tussles