Several industry majors have also pitched in by diverting oxygen supply to hospitals. The country's largest steel-maker SAIL, Tata Steel, and ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AMNS India) said they were supplying oxygen to hospitals

Sarah Walters, AstraZeneca's Austria country manager said so far, indicating the existing AstraZeneca vaccine was less effective against the more infectious variant first documented in South Africa were \"too small to draw final conclusions\"

Several market associations also supported the decision to keep shops closed to break the chain of COVID-19 infections as Delhi recorded its highest ever single-day spike and positivity rate

While acknowledging that the present situation has become far more difficult than it was in the past due to rising coronavirus infections, Mr Kumar remained hopeful that the country's economy will grow 11 per cent in the current fiscal ending March 31, 2022

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

India is battling a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and health ministry data updated on Sunday showed that a record single-day rise of 2,61,500 coronavirus infections has taken the country's total tally to 1,47,88,109

\"I would advise all political leaders to think deeply about the consequences of holding large public rallies under the current circumstances,\" said Rahul Gandhi

Coronavirus in India: Dr Harsh Vardhan said that India had 1 lab at the beginning of the pandemic which has increased to 2,463 labs with a daily testing capacity of 15 lakh

The government is planning to restart the facility soon. Officials are likely to conduct a survey on Saturday evening and finalise the modalities, told Vikas Sethi, the secretary of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas centre

The United Kingdom government has cleared Nirav Modi's extradition to India. UK home secretary Priti Patel gave the nod for the extradition in connection with the diamond merchant's involvement in the Rs 14,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud; Businesses owned by women entrepreneurs in India are likely to grow up to 90 per cent in the next five years, according to a new study which also notes that the uptake of government schemes supporting such entrepreneurs is quite low; Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, on Friday, urged US President Joe Biden to lift the embargo on vaccine raw materials exported out of the country so that vaccine production can be ramped up. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Indian pharma exports touch record $24.44 bn in pandemic year; see 18.07% growth

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 report has gone against the predominant scientific view which says that coronavirus spreads through smaller aerosols that remain suspended in the air or through fomites

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After the call with the operator, the patient Santosh Singh wrote to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash informing them about the incident

Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, and Karnataka have contributed the most to the rising cases of coronavirus. Maharashtra reported 63,729 cases, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 27,360 cases

\"I have requested that since two shahi snans (royal baths) have already taken place, Kumbh should now be symbolic in view of the corona pandemic,\" said PM Modi

The national capital reported 141 COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours which is also the highest single-day death count in Delhi. The number of actives cases increased to 61,000, while the positivity rate stood at 19.69 per cent

Union Home Secretary AK Bhalla said no curb should be imposed on manufacturers and suppliers of oxygen to limit the supplies only to the hospitals of the state in which they are located, and there shall be free movement of oxygen-carrying vehicles into the cities without any time restriction

On Friday, only about 4,300 doses of the coronavirus vaccine could be administered, the lowest in a day so far, before the stocks completely dried up.

Sensex closed 28.35 points higher at 48,832 and Nifty rose 36.40 points to 14,617 in choppy trade today