Coronavirus cases in India, lockdown news live updates: \"These activities are essential to improve the economic activity and provide liquidity in hands od people,\" DPIIT said in its letter to Ministry of Home Affairs

Coronavirus in India Live Updates: Number of 'containment zones in Delhi raised to 30 with addition of 6 new areas including Nabi Karim, E pocket GTB Enclave, Street No. 18 to 22 of Zakir Nagar and nearby area of Abu Bakar Masjid, Zakir Nagar

Live updates on India coronavirus: Essentials will be delivered door-to-door in sealed coronavirus hotspots in Delhi; list of sealed areas to be released tomorrow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 28 had announced the launch of the PM-CARES Fund to fight the COVID-19 outbreak and provide relief measures to the affected

Coronavirus cases in India live updates: As per Health Ministry data, 123 patients have cured and discharged, whereas 1 patient migrated

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Extending losses, Sensex closed near day's low, falling 1,709 points to 28,896 and Nifty50 ended at 8,468 mark, down 498 points to its previous close.

Coronavirus outbreak news: As per figures by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the highest number of cases are from Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka

Coronavirus outbreak: The deceased 69-year-old woman contracted the deadly virus from her son, who has travel history to Switzerland and Italy

YES Bank's net, mobile banking services hit after RBI caps withdrawal limitYES Bank's net and mobile banking services went down soon after the government placed it under moratorium and capped withdrawals by customers. The government, on RBI's recommendations, imposed a moratorium on YES Bank from March 5 to April 3. RBI has assured the private lender's depositors that there is no need to panic and their interest will be fully protected.Change in mercury to not affect COVID-19 spre...

India is among the 15 most affected economies due to the coronavirus epidemic and slowdown in production in China, with a trade impact of $348 million

Coronavirus live news update India: Both Egypt and South Africa reported their first cases of coronavirus infections, almost three month after the outbreak was first identified

Union Budget 2020: At a time when poverty, hunger and income inequality are growing in 22 to 25 states and UTs, out of 28 that the Niti Aayog mapped in 2018 and 2019, disinvesting stakes in CPSEs to meet budget expenditure may not be the wisest thing to do

In its World Economic Outlook update released on Monday, IMF expected growth to pick up over the course of next two years with the help of monetary and fiscal stimulus as well as subdued oil prices

Share Market Update: Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL), TCS and HCL Tech were trading higher ahead of their quarterly earnings, scheduled for release later in the day.

UN lowered its GDP growth estimate for India for the next fiscal to 6.6 per cent (from 7.4 per cent earlier)

Forget GDP growth rate for the moment. Niti Aayog's SDG Index 2019, released on December 27, 2019, says that more Indians have fallen into poverty, hunger and income inequality in the past two years. This is after a remarkable reduction in poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16

National Statistical Commission has directed the statistics ministry to look at additional sources of data to cross-verify the apparent 'inconsistencies'in consumer spending patterns

In the end, we need to understand that the absolute elimination of cash is near to impossible in a big country like India however a substantial digital economy is possible

Government said that it is separately examining the feasibility of conducting the next Consumer Expenditure Survey in 2020-2021 and 2021-22 after incorporating all data quality refinements

The credibility of India's statistical system is at stake because of the commissions and omissions ever since the 2011-12 series was announced in January 2015 and continued through multiple revisions in GDP numbers until now that dent public confidence