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Fitch cut its outlook for India to negative from stable on Thursday. (PTI/AFP Photo)

Fitch cuts India's outlook to 'negative'

Fitch expected economic activity to contract by 5 percent in the fiscal year ending March 2021 due to the strict...

18 Jun 2020 10:27 AM IST

People walk past an electronic board showing Hong Kong share index outside a bank in Hong Kong. (AP Photo)

Asian stocks stumble on fears of second coronavirus wave

The financial support, easing of lockdown restrictions, opening-up of economies provided support to equities in recent...

18 Jun 2020 9:31 AM IST

HSBC resumes cutting around 35,000 jobs. (AFP Photo)

HSBC to cut around 35,000 jobs

The bank will maintain a freeze on almost all external recruitment, CEO Noel Quinn said in the memo sent to bank's...

17 Jun 2020 11:51 AM IST

Tata Motors Ltd expects to shed about 1,100 temporary jobs at Jaguar Land Rover after pandemic hits earnings. (AFP Photo)

Tata Motors to shed 1,100 jobs at Jaguar Land Rover

The automaker posted a consolidated fourth quarter net loss of Rs 98.94 billion, as coronavirus lockdowns across its...

16 Jun 2020 10:22 AM IST

US job losses in May could raise 3-month total to 30 million. (AP Photo)

US job losses in May could raise 3-month total to 30 million

Since mid-March, more than 40 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits

4 Jun 2020 10:10 AM IST

Migrants arriving from Mumbai undergo screening at Danapur Railway Station, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Patna. PTI Photo

Aakar Patel | Seven things India must do to save itself from disaster

All parties and the government acknowledge we are in trouble, and more trouble lies ahead

2 Jun 2020 4:59 PM IST

WHO and other experts say no evidence of COVID-19 losing potency. (AFP Photo)

WHO rubbishes Italian doc's claim on virus losing potency

Professor Alberto Zangrillo, head of intensive care at Italy's San Raffaele Hospital said that new coronavirus ...

2 Jun 2020 11:44 AM IST

Govt rejects Flipkarts proposal for entering food retail sector. (PTI Photo)

Government rejects Flipkart's plan to enter food retail sector

The company spokesperson said that Flipkart intends to re-apply for the permit

1 Jun 2020 3:59 PM IST

Maruti Suzuki India records 86% slump in May sales. (PTI Photo)

Maruti Suzuki India records 86% slump in May sales

Domestic sales declined by 88.93 percent to 13,888 units last month

1 Jun 2020 2:13 PM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI Photo)

Delhi borders sealed for a week, says Kejriwal, announces relaxations

There will also be no restrictions on the number of persons travelling in four wheelers and two wheelers, Kejriwal said

1 Jun 2020 1:36 PM IST

With animal markets closed due to the outbreak, sellers have set up makeshifts stalls in Muslim-dominated areas. (DC Photo)

Bakrid: Amid outbreak, price of sacrificial goats drop

With animal markets closed due to the outbreak, sellers have set up makeshifts stalls in Muslim-dominated areas

27 July 2020 11:03 AM IST

Oil prices dipped on Monday, weighed down by the prospect that a rise in the pace of coronavirus infections could derail a recovery in fuel demand. (AFP Photo)

Oil falls as worsening pandemic threatens recovery

In the US, energy drillers cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to a record for an 11th week in a row

20 July 2020 8:05 AM IST