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MP CM appeals to ministers, MLAs to donate 30% salary to Relief Fund

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan appealed to the Ministers and MLAs to contribute 30 per cent of their salaries to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci to tell House panel 'unclear' how long Covid-19 pandemic lasts

There's no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci and other top government health experts will tell Congress on Friday. While it remains unclear how long the pandemic will last, COVID-19 activity will likely continue for some time, Fauci, along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Robert Redfield and Health and Human Services testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir say in prepared testimony for a special House panel investigating the pandemic. At a time when early progress seems to have been lost and uncertainty clouds the nation's path forward, Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, is calling on lawmakers and all other Americans to go back to public health basics such as social distancing and wearing masks. The panel, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, is divided about how to reopen schools and businesses, mirroring divisions among Americans. A rebound of cases across the South and the West has dashed hopes fo

From Bali to Australia, Asia-Pacific tourism makes a patchy restart

With international travel heavily restricted, progress in reviving tourism has been at best anemic and usually perilous

Hong Kong may postpone September 6 elections amid surge in Covid-19: Report

A postponement would be a setback for the pro-democracy opposition, which was hoping to capitalise on disenchantment with the current pro-Beijing majority to make gains

Covid-19: French economy shrinks by record 13.8%, still beats estimates

The contraction in France was steeper than the 10.1% reported by Germany, where authorities kept a surge in Covid-19 related deaths in check and did not enforce a lockdown as strict as France's

Ram temple 'bhoomi pujan' not required amid pandemic: Raj Thackeray

MNS chief Raj Thackeray said that the 'bhoomi pujan' ceremony of the proposed Ram temple in Ayodhya, scheduled to be held on August 5, could be organised later when things normalised.

Dabur's aggressive focus on healthcare products is paying off

Segment supported performance in Q1, which saw revenue decline by 12.9% and PBT by 8.5%

India gold demand drops 70% in Q2 to hit 11-year low on price, Covid impact

World Gold Council data shows demand dropped to 63.7 tonnes in the April-June quarter this year. Back in 2009, demand had plunged to as low as 40 tonnes following Lehmann crisis

Unlock 3: Gym owners welcome govt's decision to reopen fitness clubs

As the yoga institutes and gymnasiums have been allowed to open from August 5, gym owners and fitness experts have shown joy and happiness on the government's fresh guidelines

Covid-19: Six more test positive in Mumbai's Dharavi, active cases 80

Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum sprawl, reported six new coronavirus cases on Thursday, which took its overall count to 2,551, a civic official said

Covid-19: UP CM asks SGPGI to send specialists to Kanpur, other districts

He said special efforts should be made to improve treatment of coronavirus patients in these districts which also include Prayagraj, Bareilly, Jhansi and Gorakhpur

Convert properties at Lavasa into Covid-19 facilities: BJP MP from Pune

Bapat asked the district administration to take control of those properties for further steps

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Infection spike in Asia spurs warnings

China orders regular tests at wholesale markets, J&J vaccine results on monkeys, Can coronavirus spread through air, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Coronavirus death toll in the US surpasses 150,000-mark: Johns Hopkins

California on Wednesday reported 197 Covid-related deaths in a single day

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why you should shun so-called immunity boosters

Cases in West Bengal cross 65,000, few sanitation workers getting training, info on health checkups, and making sense of sero-survey results-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Covid-19: Indian Red Cross Society to buy 180,000 face masks from KVIC

The execution of this order will require over 20,000 meters of fabric which will generate 9,000 additional man-days

India's FMCG sector to see flat growth in 2020 due to Covid-19: Nielsen

Though the FMCG industry has shown some sign of improvements in June, but in the first half of the year the industry growth slipped to negative with 6% decline

Housing sales reviving, end-user demand may strengthen: Mahindra Lifespace

Housing sales as well as enquiries from prospective homebuyers, which were badly hit during April-June due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have started to revive gradually and end-user demand is likely to strengthen in coming months, a top official of Mahindra Lifespace said on Thursday. In an interview with PTI, Mahindra Lifespace Developers MD & CEO Arvind Subramanian said the company did not witness much cancellation of apartments booked by customers as widely feared after the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown. "Just like the economy, businesses were severely challenged in the first quarter of this fiscal year. There was almost a standstill in housing sales and construction activities," he said. However, Subramanian said, "The good news is that our existing customers are committed to their bookings. We are not seeing a large cancellation which could have been one of the outcomes." He said the sales bookings and enquiries from customers in July increased as compared to the .

As vacationers throw caution to the wind, France sees new wave of Covid-19

Among the nightspots where now-infected people congregated, is one that skirted a national coronavirus ban on nightclubbing by converting itself into a late-night watering hole

1 million Covid-19 tests per day in India in next two months: Harsh Vardhan

Vardhan asserted that while global efforts are on to find a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, India is not behind