Rupee trips 18 paise to hit 5-week low
The rupee on Monday dived 18 paise to close at a five-week low of 75.07 against the US dollar as fresh worries over new coronavirus variant weighed on already weak investor sentiment. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 74.84 and witnessed an intra-day high of...
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SC grants two weeks more to Amazon to put its case before CCI
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About Rs 52,000 cr GST compensation pending to States till Sept: FinMin
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Amazon infuses Rs 650 cr in Amazon Wholesale (India)
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Steel demand drops by 5 pc in FY21: Union Minister
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RBI supersedes Reliance Capital board; to start bankruptcy proceedings
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No proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency: FM
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Sensex jumps over 500 pts in opening session; Nifty tops 17,200
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Sensex drops 196 pts; Nifty slips below 17,000-mark
Equity benchmark Sensex dropped 196 points on Tuesday, hit by fag-end selling in auto and metal stocks following sluggish investor sentiment in global markets. The selling pressure was triggered after European markets opened in the negative territory amid concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, traders said. After rallying over 900...
‘Omicron shows need for global accord on pandemics’
The World Health Organization on Monday is pushing for an international accord to help prevent and fight future pandemics amid the emergence of a Omicron. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said many uncertainties remain about just how transmissible and severe infection by the highly mutated Omicron might be. Tedros joined...
Wary, weary world slams doors shut, fearing Omicron
Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new omicron variant at bay on Monday as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged and scientists raced to figure out just how dangerous it might be. Japan announced it would bar entry...
Japan bans entry of foreign visitors as omicron spreads
As cases of a new coronavirus variant are confirmed around the world, Japan announced Monday that it will suspend entry of all foreign visitors, joining an increasing number of countries that are tightening their borders as fear spreads of yet another extension of pandemic suffering. Japan, which has yet to detect...
Scotland detects 6 cases of Omicron
Six cases of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant have been identified in Scotland, taking the UK’s total to 11 following three cases in England last week and two in London on Monday. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the latest two cases found in Camden and Wandsworth areas of...
Australia delays relaxing border, 5th Omicron case reported
Australian authorities announced on Monday that they would delay plans to relax border restrictions by at least two weeks, as the country reported its fifth case of the omicron Covid-19 variant. New South Wales state authorities reported on Sunday that two travelers from South Africa to Sydney had become Australia’s first...
Portugal probes local transmission of omicron at soccer team
Portuguese health authorities on Monday identified 13 cases of Omicron, the new coronavirus variant spreading fast globally, among members of a top soccer club and were investigating whether it was one of the first reported cases of local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa. The Ricardo Jorge National Health...
