Over 110 uniformed personnel from the Police Department and Fireand Rescue Services have so far tested positive for COVID-19 across the State. Chennai

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Immigration attorneys said clients were filing applications for candidates selected by random lottery last month. The H1-B work permit, initially for three years, is granted only if the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approves the application.

"The importance of hybrid cloud and AI has accelerated. What has changed is the pace at which they're being adopted. Transformation journeys (of) last few years are now being compacted into months...They're looking for long lasting answers on what they can do with technology to address the key issues that COVID-19 has brought to light," he said.

In this environment, the delivery of platform-enabled solutions at speed across the entire technology stack becomes even more important, it said. From cloud to networking, data centre to security and more, breadth and depth of capability are essential to recover and restore operations and position organisations strongly for the coming years.

Traditional services also have some very strong propositions, like digital workplace, engineering services. Some of the demand for that is intact and it is only getting accelerated.

Prices of TVs, ACs and some phones are set to go up as manufacturers grapple with component shortages.

Production cuts will be most in premium portfolio as consumers curb discretionary spending.

The company has cut prices anywhere from Rs 2,000 on the smaller screen televisions going up to Rs two lakh on a flagship 85-inch model apart from rolling out long tenure no-cost EMI schemes and bundling offers. It has launched a new 85-inch model at Rs 5.9 lakh bringing down its earlier pricing structure of Rs 10 lakh in this screen size.

"We are closely working with all our airline and hotel partners on lenient customer policies for date change, cancellations and waivers in the face of evolving travel trends and are seamlessly passing the waiver benefits to our customers, as applicable," MakeMyTrip said in the letter.

IATO said it seeks a financial bailout package to defray the salaries of the employees and operational cost of offices based on the turnover of the company in last financial year. IATO also that said it also seeks a 9 to 12 months deferment (without any interest) on all principle and interest payments on bank loans.

Sensing a long-term lull in overseas travel, the Ministry of Tourism launched ‘Dekho Apna Desh’, a webinar series hosted by experts who will share key nuggets and information on destinations like Varanasi, Pondicherry, Ladakh, Kolkata and Lucknow.

Lockdown has pushed hotel business in tourism hotspot Sikkim to the brink where investors from Bengal and other states are the first tire victims. Equal sufferer is over 70% of Sikkim's population dependent on hospitality industry that generates around Rs 1.5 k croer business there in a year.

The Gautam Adani-led utility firm that sells piped natural gas (PNG) to households and compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles hopes to make up for the lost time on new projects once the lockdown is over and is sticking to its capital expenditure plan of Rs 1,500 crore for the current fiscal, its CEO Suresh Manglani has said.

Auditors and company executives told that higher provisioning may be necessary as the pandemic-induced sharp dip would have increased difficulties for these businesses already hit by the ongoing slowdown. In many cases, auditors have asked companies to provide up to 50%.

In addition to the Rs 1,600 crore liquidity position, the company said it has undrawn sanctions of Rs 900 crore as on March 31, 2020. The Gurugram-headquartered micro lender also said that it will offer moratorium to all the existing borrowers across India.

State Innovation & Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam, is working on a Strategy Paper for the state government by engaging Ernst & Young (EY) on tea industry. Tea industry has suffered immensely during the lockdown .

Even though much of the stubble of wheat is used as animal fodder but farmers resort to open field burning to get rid of the leftover stalk. Around 11400 incidents of open field burning were recorded as per satellite imagery in Punjab and 7500 in Haryana last year post kharif harvest.

Highlighting that network capacity and higher bandwidth services have proved to be crucial, not only during the pandemic itself, but also for e-commerce and economic inclusion in general, it said in an information note: “What can WTO members do to improve communications networks and services?”

While tennis is a lucrative sport for those at the top -- the 2020 Australian Open singles champions each took home A$4.12 million ($2.52 million) -- those in the lower echelons often struggle to make ends meet.

Daybell said that after a difficult few months a sense of normality was returning to the COVID-19 ward in the north London hospital where he works.

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Previously, Banerjee had conducted surprise visits to marketplaces to enforce the lockdown, catching unprepared violators off guard

Earlier this week, Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials' video conference on Covid-19 because as per the neighboiring country, it should have been managed by Saarc secretariat

The first meeting of the task force was convened via a video conference

Through the ordinance, he truncated the term of the SEC from the existing five years to three years

The Congress has constituted an 11-member consultative group which would meet at least once in two days to suggest further policy changes

Some of these journalists had urged the Uttar Pradesh government to conduct their sample tests

Till a few months ago, not a day would go by when Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) would not criticise the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even though the two parties are in alliance.

Students of these 26 institutes will provide interns to help the EGoMs with data analysis and policy inputs

According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, state governments' gross market borrowings stood at Rs 6.08 trillion in 2019-20, up from Rs 4.78 trillion in 2018-19.