In London to attend a G7 foreign Ministers’ meeting, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and three members of his delegation went into isolation after had been exposed to ‘possible Covid-19 positive cases’.
Day: May 6, 2021
Former Union Minister and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Ajit Singh, 82, passed away today in a Gurgaon hospital of Covid-19 related complications. His son, Jayant Chaudhary confirmed the demise of his father early today morning.
Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan was admitted to Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai today.
Sebi on Wednesday barred six entities from the capital markets for two years for indulging in manipulative trading in the shares of Biocon Limited in the cash market.
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) reported its strongest first quarter on record and beat profit estimates on Wednesday, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions boosting payment volumes.
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday asked banks and other regulated financial entities not to impose any punitive restriction against customers for failure to update KYC till December end, in view of the second wave of coronavirus cases.
To address the shortage of oxygen being faced by India in combating the Covid-19 pandemic, L’Oréal has announced its financial support to the French government’s initiative to provide oxygen generators, liquid oxygen containers and specialised respirators to the country.
Russian opposition figures have criticized a planned law on restrictions for candidates in the Duma election as a targeted attack on supporters of jailed dissident Alexei Navalny.
South Korea reported 574 more cases of Covid-19 as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 125,519.