As COVID-19 cases are increasing, many states have imposed stricter restrictions to reduce the burden on already stressed medical infrastructure

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said, in order to take all possible coronavirus countermeasures, it has been decided Prime Minister Suga won't take any overseas trips during the Golden Week

PM Modi speech Highlights: 'Lockdown last resort; focus on micro-containment' Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Tuesday and spoke about the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the country. He said the situation in India was under control until some weeks ago, but the second wave of COVID has come like a storm. The prime minister said India is currently fighting a very tough battle against coronavirus and urged people to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour. Prime Minister Nare...

\"We have to protect the nation from lockdown. I urge states to treat lockdown as the last resort. We need to focus on micro-containment,\" says PM Modi

The Sensex crashed 10 per cent as of Tuesday's closing from its all-time high of 52,516.76 hit on February 16. The Nifty is down nearly 6 per cent to 14,296.40 from its peak

Addressing a seminar, FM Sitharaman stated that the government has taken myriad steps to ensure that the economic revival continues despite the raging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Nomura has downgraded projections of economic growth for the fiscal year ending March 2022 to 12.6 per cent from 13.5 per cent earlier, JP Morgan now projects GDP growth at 11 per cent from 13 per cent earlier

Congress accused the government for not providing adequate funds to state governments that were fighting a two front war  despite accumulating hundreds of crores of rupees in the PM CARES Fund

Sonia Gandhi accused the Centre of giving preferential treatment to some states while maintaining 'thundering silence' on requests by states helmed by the Congress or the Opposition parties

The gross refining margins have fallen during the pandemic and are slightly recovering at present; Essar Oil UK said the repeated lockdowns have resulted in all refiners experiencing low demand

Over the last year, Indian IT companies have struck some of their biggest deals ever, and have stayed resilient amid testing circumstances

The RBI adopted multiple regulatory forbearance measures and ultra-loose monetary policy to counter economic headwinds. Now it has to work out an exit roadmap

The Production Linked Incentive Scheme aims to build an Indian manufacturing base across 13 key sectors. What works. What doesn't

India's healthcare system is at breaking point as the COVID crisis in India spirals out of control. Hospitals are bursting at the seams in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Ahmedabad where there is a grim shortage of beds and even ventilators, anti-viral drugs are running out. The current spike of COVID cases has left the country's frontline workers overworked.  India recorded 168,912 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. Maharashtra registered the highest number of confirmed infections at 63,294 followed by Uttar Pradesh (15,276), and Delhi (10,774). Watch the video for more.Also Read: COVID-19: Second wave can weaken India's economic recovery, says Moody's

Today's market crash has triggered worries of a scenario like last year's when nationwide lockdown had left the stock market bleeding with benchmark indices plummeting around 40 per cent in a span of two weeks

Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen said the Indian government has performed well in addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic

As per AMFI, investors put in RS 6,919 crore in 14 gold-linked ETFs, much higher than Rs 1,614 crore invested in 2019-20

The International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief Economist, Petya Koeva Brooks, in an interview to PTI on Friday also made a strong case for an additional economic stimulus to address the impact of the pandemic on the country's economy

\"Timely delivery of safe and effective vaccines across all countries is critical to ending the pandemic, especially as new variants emerge. Developing countries need to strengthen their readiness for vaccination campaigns and develop coordinated strategies to reach vulnerable populations,\" a joint ministerial committee of the World Bank and the IMF said

This initiative reflects the growing recognition that the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated budget constraints and debt challenges that hamper the ability of some countries to transition to clean energy