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Delivering an address in an online conference on 'Combating COVID-19 --Biotech to the Rescue' organised by Bennett University, Vijay Raghavan also batted for digital contact tracing of coronavirus cases that he said may prove to be an effective tool post-...

On the other hand the state government is also trying to attract investors moving out of China to the state, which would help in reviving the pandemic-hit economy.

In a blog, Garg said the government's tax and non-tax revenues are likely to decline by around Rs 5 lakh crore, while on the expenditure side additional financing of about Rs 6 lakh crore would be required.

She also talked about PM Narendra Modi's initiative of creating a COVID-19 Emergency Fund for the SAARC region at a video-meeting of the grouping's leaders.

Gautam Buddh Nagar is among the 15 districts in Uttar Pradesh where coronavirus hotspots have been completely sealed off, while restrictions under CrPC section 144 are also in place due to the pandemic.

Presently, 6 from Port Blair, who also attended the congregation at Markaz in Nizamuddin along with rest of the group members, are admitted at quarantine wards at AIIMS in New Delhi.

According to District Magistrate BM Mishra, contact tracing showed that one of the patients contracted the virus at Moolchand Hospital where they had gone for dialysis. Other family members contracted it from him.

Punjab has 10 meritorious schools and they are located in Amritsar, Bathinda, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Mohali, Sangrur and Hoshiarpur districts.

Assistant police inspector Jitendra Thakur of Satpati police station confirmed the deaths and said the cause for the casualties was yet to be confirmed.

The IMF in its World Economic Outlook had forecast India's growth rate to be 1.9 per cent in 2020.

Fast bowler Ishant Sharma said that he can't pick between his seven-wicket haul at Lord's in 2014 and the fifer he took in India's maiden pink ball Test against Bangladesh in November 2019.

Mauritius Vice Prime Minister Leela Devi Luchoomun Dookun received the consignment of half a million Hydroxychloroquine tablets that reached the country on Wednesday evening through a special Air India cargo flight from Delhi.

Kant, who is heading the Empowered Group (EG-6) on coordinating with private sector NGOs and international organisations, interacted through a virtual mode with representatives 'from companies like Uber India, Ola Cabs and Urban Company.'

This unprecedented lockdown has already spelled doom for the Indian economy, which was anyway reeling under a prolonged downturn even before Covid-19 created the present situation.

The court had earlier sent him to the custody for nine days after the police said it was needed to unearth a larger conspiracy in the case.

After YSR Congress party came into power, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy introduced English medium in all schools run by the state government.