(FE) With the number of coronavirus cases crossing the 4 lakh-mark, India is now ranked fourth after United States, Brazil and Russia in the list of worst-affected countries by the COVID-19 disease. According to WHO, Sunday witnessed the highest-ever single day spike in cases. Worldwide, more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours. As per the health ministry’s latest data on Monday, 445 deaths and spike of 14,821 new COVID-19 positive cases were reported in India in last 24 hours. Coronavirus positive cases in India stand at 4,25,282 including 1,74,387 active cases, 2,37,196 cured/discharged/migrated. The death toll is 13,699, the ministry said. However, there is one silver…
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(PTI) Amid rising number of COVID-19 cases, the government has extended the Rs 50 lakh insurance scheme for about 22 lakh healthcare providers for another three months till September. The scheme implemented by New India Assurance was slated to end on June 30, as per the announcement made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as part of the Rs 1.70 lakh Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package in March. The insurance provides a comprehensive personal accident cover of Rs 50 lakh to a total of around 22.12 lakh public healthcare providers, including community health workers, who may have to be in direct contact…
(ET) Oil India Limited (OIL) will file writ petition in the Gauhati High Court challenging Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA) which served a Closure Notice directing OIL to close down all the production as well as Drilling operations of all installations of Baghjan Oilfield forthwith. OIL gas producing well blew out on May 27 and on June 9 as it exploded into a massive inferno. The board stated, “It is seen that you have been not submitting the Annual Report regularly under Section 9 of the Hazardous & Other waste (Management & Trans boundary movement) rules, 2016, which is a serious violation and liable to…
(PTI) Yoga has emerged as a force for unity and it does not discriminate as it goes beyond race, colour, gender, faith and nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. In his message on the sixth International Day of Yoga, he said due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world is feeling the need for Yoga more than ever. If our immunity is strong, it is of great help in defeating this disease. For boosting immunity, there are several techniques in Yoga, various asanas’ are there, he said. COVID-19 specifically attacks our respiratory system which gets strengthened on doing ‘Pranayama’ or breathing exercise, Modi…
(PTI) State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the speed of execution of its projects and the company is identifying opportunities for optimisation of capital and operating expenditure. While about 9 per cent of the company’s natural gas output was impacted by inability of customers to take supplies due to the coronavirus lockdown, lower oil and gas prices had impacted its revenues, the company said. In a note on the material impact of COVID-19 pandemic submitted to stock exchanges, ONGC said operations and production have gone on uninterrupted during the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25…
Khabarindia.in is going to organize a special webinar E-Samvad on Sunday June 21, 2020 at 2 p.m. In this webinar Shri. Rajesh Pandey, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Bareilly Range, UP Police will participate and share how police is tackling these issues. Topic of E-Samvad is “Online Banking Fraud: Be More Alert As Criminals Are Changing Their Modus Operandi”. Other members of the panel includes Shri. Sanjay Mishra, Cyber Security Consultants & Cyber Crime Investigator, Shri. Neeraj Thakur Senior Journalist. Shri. Shivkant Vaish CA and Banking and Financial Expert. Managing Editor of Khabarindia Mr. Amit Bhanot would moderate the session.…
(ET) The Reserve Bank of India has proposed tougher rules for housing finance companies (HFC), including lending and investment curbs in group entities to prevent conflict of interest, while changing the definition of “housing finance” and setting thresholds to identify the bigger players that are systemically important to the mortgage industry. The central bank said that HFCs can either take exposure on the group company in real estate business or lend to retail individual home buyersin the projects of group entities, but not do both. This is aimed at addressing the “concerns on double financing due to lending to construction companies…
(LiveMint) In a span of just 12 days, the price of diesel has increased by ₹7.04 a litre while that of petrol is up by ₹6.55 a litre. Petrol price went up by 53 paise in Delhi today and diesel price was hiked by a bigger margin of 64 paise. After 12 days of non-stop hikes, the price of petrol is now at a 19-month high in India. As diesel prices are at a record high, the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said the unbridled hike in fuel prices coupled with extortion at border check-posts in states has hit truckers hard and if the…
(PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue directions to states for payment of salaries and providing necessary quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers engaged in treating COVID-19 patients. The government told the court it would issue the necessary directions. A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah said that doctors and healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients should not be denied quarantine facilities. The top court asked the Centre to file a compliance report within four weeks on payment of salaries and quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers and warned that non-compliance…
(Livemint) The coronavirus pandemic in India witnessed a new peak with the states registering 12,881 fresh cases in a single day — the highest so far. The total number of coronavirus patients in the country zoomed to 366,946. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi — three worst-affected states — continued to record high number cornavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Uttar Pradesh and Haryana recorded the biggest jump in COVID-19 count on Tuesday. The death toll in the country jumped to 12,237. At least 334 people succumbed to death in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, India saw a huge jump…