All vehicles listed in exemptions will be allowed cross-border movement only if they are able to furnish valid ID cards

Factory activity in China expanded for a second straight month in April as more businesses resumed work from the coronavirus-led shutdowns, but a worsening slump in export orders pointed to a long road to recovery for the embattled economy; The Dubai Police have confirmed that non-resident Indian businessman Joy Arakkal committed suicide by jumping off a building on April 23 due to financial problems.  Biocon, one of the top bio-pharmaceutical companies in the world, is working on the next generation biotech cure for the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Also Read: Coronavirus impact: No alcohol sale hits state revenues; Rs 2 lakh crore target looks iffy

Almost 42 percent of the 3,600 respondents that participated in a survey conducted by CARS24 said that they needed to buy a car for their family while another 53 percent said they were thinking of buying one within the next 6 months

NRI oil tycoon Joy Arakkal commits suicide in DubaiThe Dubai Police have confirmed that non-resident Indian businessman Joy Arakkal committed suicide by jumping off a building on April 23 due to financial problems. The Dubai-based Keralite businessman jumped off from the 14th floor in the Business Bay area. Arakkal was the Managing Director of Innova Refining and Trading FZE in UAE. He had been in the petroleum business for the last 20 years and hailed from Manathavady in Wayanad....

A total of 1,718 fresh coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, taking the total number of active cases in the country to 23,651

ILO called for \"urgent, targeted and flexible measures\" to support both workers and business, particularly smaller enterprises and those in the informal economy

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The International Labour Organisation has stressed the importance of social security schemes and protection systems saying this crisis could be a wake-up call for governments; Days after social media giant Facebook and Reliance Jio signed a $5.7 billion deal, JioMart has gone live on WhatsApp; Several reports have emerged which claim that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on his death bed after a heart operation went wrong; Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to comply with a nationwide lockdown and social distancing measures on Sunday, a day after some of the world's toughest restrictions were eased slightly while cases of COVID-19 continued to mount. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Also Read: PM Modi hints at coronavirus lockdown extension, says follow 'Do Gaz Doori'

Modi urges citizens to follow lockdown as coronavirus spreadsPrime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to comply with a nationwide lockdown and social distancing measures on Sunday, a day after some of the world's toughest restrictions were eased slightly while cases of COVID-19 continued to mount. In his radio address, \"Man ki baat\", Modi said the country was in the midst of a \"war\" and the country's 1.3 billion citizens should not be misled into believing the spread of the ...

All the union ministers were asked by the government to resume work in their ministries from Monday and focus on kick-starting the economy post lockdown.

Coronavirus lockdown in India updates: A case has been registered at Bandra Police station under section 143, 147, 149, 186, 188 of Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Epidemic Act, against 800-1000 unidentified people

Employment rate in March fell to an all time low of 38.2 per cent, and the \"scene gets much worse as we move into the lockdown period,\" CMIE said

To help mitigate novel coronavirus impact, Oxfam proposed a six point action plan that would deliver cash grants and bailouts to people and businesses in need, and also called for debt cancellation, more IMF support, and increased aid

\"In India, Nigeria and Brazil, the number of workers in the informal economy affected by the lockdown and other containment measures is substantial,\" ILO said

ILO did not project precisely how many workers would be made jobless by the crisis, though it said it would be \"significantly higher\" than the 25 million it forecast just last month

Almost 90 per cent of people in India work in the informal economy and about 400 million workers in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the crisis

It is not difficult to identify the vulnerable-landless labourers, petty traders, tailors, barbers, construction workers, rickshaw/auto/Ola/Uber drivers and many others, nor is to reach them after the Jan-Dhan and Aadhaar programmes

The coronavirus pandemic could trigger a global economic crisis and destroy up to 25 million jobs around the world if governments do not act fast to shield workers from the impact, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said; The Indian hospitality sector is staring at a loss of $4.2 billion to $4.7 billion in revenues due to coronavirus outbreak, as per hospitality consultancy Hotelivate; The government has asked all the banks to encourage its customers to use digital payments, instead of cash transfer in day to day life as a precautionary measure against coronavirus outbreak; RBI's moratorium on crisis-hit private sector lender Yes Bank has been lifted. Yes Bank customers can now withdraw money from ATMs and access other banking services. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Read: Are Indian banks ready to absorb Covid-19 impact?

Coronavirus outbreak could destroy up to 25 million jobs - ILOThe coronavirus pandemic could trigger a global economic crisis and destroy up to 25 million jobs around the world if governments do not act fast to shield workers from the impact, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Wednesday. \"However, if we see an internationally coordinated policy response, as happened in the global financial crisis of 2008/9, then the impact on global unemployment could be signif...

ILO said that the COVID-19 outbreak could destroy up to 25 million jobs around the world