Even as India increases the scope of the Equalisation Levy, the US has initiated a probe against 10 countries for imposing taxes on digital services. This could effectively mean India, like many others, could face US reprisal, going forward

To confront the biggest recession in its history, officials said the EU had as good as a consensus on a 750 billion euro coronavirus fund to be sent as loans and grants to the countries hit hardest by the virus

The marathon negotiations, which are taking place amid the unprecedented crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, have underscored the deep fissures within the 27-nation bloc with the traditional Franco-German alliance struggling to get its way

An API is an enabling tool that needs to be embedded into an app-which then monitors a user's location and send alerts of any nearby COVID infected person on a Google or Apple phone

The cull involves farm workers in protective clothing using gas on mink mothers and pups. The bodies will be sent to a disposal plant and the farms will be disinfected

Mumbai Coronavirus Hotspots: Data that came on Friday suggests Mumbai reported 1,382 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking its overall tally to 25,317. As per official numbers from across world, Mumbai, which is home to around 2 crore people, has surpassed over 158 countries in terms of number of coronavirus cases

The new planet is among only a handful of extra-solar planets that have been detected with both sizes and orbits close to that of Earth

While widespread poverty and inequality have reduced the capacity of a large population to survive the crisis of health and livelihood, the Indian government needs to get its priorities right to deliver what is expected of it

The following table lists countries that have reported deaths and/or at least 100 confirmed cases as of 0200 GMT on Friday

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

Recently the government had allowed two private companies - Indian company MyLab and German firm Altona Diagnostics - to supply COVID-19 test kits to both government as well as private testing laboratories in India

Coronavirus Crisis Live Updates: Trump said that US has \"purchased many Ventilators from some wonderful companies. Names and numbers will be announced later today!\"

So far, their progress is mixed with individual countries taking more aggressive positions to bring a change to the impact of what would be known several years from now

After Canada and Australia confirmed they would not send athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if it went ahead this year, other nations are now going public with calls for a delay

HMD Global is trying to reduce the hassle of buying a local SIM card when travelling abroad with the HMD Connect.

Coronavirus update: IKEA has already shut operations temporarily in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland, and the United States

Coronavirus news: As a confidence building measure, Trump said that Americans will \"defeat this threat\" at a news conference

While some developed economies have adopted anti-tax avoidance GAAR and digital tax on sales of multinationals, India has been deferring operationalisation of GAAR since 2012 and is also handicapped by lack of adequate studies and data

In these times of coronovirus, keeping the phone clean is important. Now, Samsung is offering free phone cleaning service to Galaxy phone users in 19 countries.

As per the agreement, India will supply four SWATHI weapon locating radars, which provide fast, automatic and accurate location of enemy weapons like mortars, shells and rockets in its 50-km range