Day: May 23, 2020

Ninety-seven people were killed and two passengers miraculously survived a deadly crash after a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 travellers on board plunged into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here, officials said today.

To mitigate the impact of Covid-19 induced economic fallout, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday further reduced key lending rates by 40 basis points to historic low levels.

The number of novel coronavirus infections saw the biggest spike in India with 6,654 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 1,25,101 today, while the death toll due to the pandemic rose to 3,720 after 137 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.