These masks will take as long as 450 years to break down and all the while serve as a source of micro plastic and negatively impact marine wildlife and ecosystems, says a new report by OceanAsia

Kanchan Samtani, Managing Director & Partner, BCG India points out that internet and tech space have grown from 30 per cent of overall number deals to over 50 per cent in 2019

RBI as a monetary authority earns an income under its liquidity adjustment facility and marginal standing facility where it mostly lends money to banks at the repo rate or at a higher rate under emergency situations

Purely in terms of foreign policy as a philosophy, Modi has moved a five pillar 'Panchamrut' policy, Madhav said. The five pillars of his foreign policy include dignity, dialogue, prosperity, security and cultural linkages, he said

The JEE (Main) will be conducted for around 8.6 lakh students, while the NEET will be organised across urban centres for about 15 lakh students

Flipkart is looking to go electric with its entire logistics fleet by 2030 and install charging infrastructure in close to 1,400 supply chain hubs

The expected poor financial performance this year is on the back of a 5-6 per cent decline in demand for electricity due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown

Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh have accounted for most cases of coronavirus in the country; they account for 81 per cent of all coronavirus-related deaths in India

They could be vegetable vendors, grocery and milk shop owners, petrol pump attendants or garbage collectors, who by the nature of their job carry the risk of getting infected and infecting others

An adequate supply of PPE kits, N95 masks and sanitisers should be maintained, and the capacity of COVID hospitals should be increased, PTI quoted UP CM Yogi Adityanath as saying

This is the first special train to arrive in Uttar Pradesh with stranded migrant workers. The special train started from Nashik on Saturday morning and reached Lucknow via Jhansi and Kanpur

Corona lockdown extension live updates: Centre extends coronavirus lockdown till May 17; Home Ministry issues guidelines for restrictions and relaxations in different zones across India

ICMR said throat/nasal swabs will be collected in the viral transport medium (VTM) with virus lysis buffer provided along with the kit

 Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said that the need of the hour and immediate necessity is to share a part of this profit made by the government in the last six years

The COVID-19 tests will be carried out as per protocols of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and by private labs approved or registered by it, the authority said

Union Health Minister Dr Harsha Vardhan today met with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital staff to discuss the COVID-19 outbreak

Jain also said that the Delhi government only has 7,000 - 8,000 personal protection equipments (PPE) kits which will last 2-3 days

There were only 1,890 crimes reported this year compared to last year's 3,416, a decrease of 44%

Of the 108, 85 are quarantined at home while the rest 23 are at the hospital

Believing she had the common flu, Wei Guixian went to a local clinic for treatment, but things didn't get better