Schools reopen: While states such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Sikkim have decided to reopen schools, states such as Maharashtra, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka have decided to avoid reopening them to avoid COVID-19 spread

The world's second-largest economy likely grew 5.2% in July-September from a year earlier, faster than the second quarter's 3.2%

The committee has recommended that the existing personal safety protocols need to continue in full measure, otherwise the country will see a sharp rise in infections

The mandate means Ardern, 40, could form the first single-party government in decades, and face the challenge of delivering on the progressive transformation she promised but failed to deliver in her first term

The associated lockdowns, restrictions and continued uncertainty have caused investments, trade, and remittance flows to plummet, eroded jobs and human capital, kept children out of school, and pressured food and medical supply chains

Gopinath believes the recent passing of three new labour codes and farm reform bills will provide jobs, some direct support and pave the way for more demand while strengthening supply chain

All sectors fell heavily today, with IT and banking indices dropping nearly 3% each, followed by 2% fall in realty and pharma shares and over 1% decline in auto and FMCG stocks

The disease, which emerged in China last year and has killed over a million people worldwide, is spreading in most parts of the United Kingdom, whose official death toll of 43,155 is the highest in Europe

India's fuel demand recovered sharply in June from April before slowing due to the reimposition of restrictions in certain cities because of coronavirus and flooding in some regions

British government is considering stricter lockdowns and restrictions on northern England in order to prevent further spread of novel coronavirus

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Tech Mahindra, followed by HCL Tech, TCS, ICICI Bank, Bajaj Finance and ITC were among the top losers on Sensex today. On the other hand, Tata Steel, ONGC, NTPC, Asian Paints, M&M, Nestle India and Bharti Airtel were among the gainers

The IMF forecast a 2020 global contraction of 4.4% in its latest World Economic Outlook, an improvement over a 5.2% contraction predicted in June, when pandemic-related business closures reached their peak

IMF, however, projected that the Indian economy will deliver an impressive recovery with 8.8 per cent growth rate in the next fiscal, higher than the 6 per cent growth it had predicted in June

At a media briefing on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health officials typically aim to achieve herd immunity by vaccination

In the post-pandemic era, lenders will increasingly become more conservative, despite a growth in the demand for credit from both retail and institutional customers like SMEs and MSMEs

The economic crisis following the pandemic and untimely national lockdown have been used by both the central and state governments to push through unilateral measures that undermine workers' interest by dismantling critical protections

Coronavirus pandemic: Record high daily infections in several eastern European countries and sharp rebounds in the hard-hit west have made clear that Europe never really crushed the COVID-19 curve as hoped

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) raised questions on Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's move to promote yoga and Ayurvedic herbs for prevention of coronavirus infection; Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the annual Invest India Conference in Canada, hard sold his government's latest agriculture, labour reforms; The World Bank projected a steeper contraction in India's economy by 9.6 per cent this fiscal in light of COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: TCS pips Accenture to become world's most-valuable IT services firm

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India Invest 2020 forum: Mahindra also mentioned that after one of the strictest lockdowns globally, India has seen economic recovery and it is reflected in good tractor and automobile sales