If the parents of some students are unable to deposit the school fees due to poor financial condition, the private schools will not be able to expel them, said chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday. The state government would revoke the school’s recognition if it violates the direction.

The Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) headquarters will be closed for two days after a civil defence staff of the civic body tested positive on Friday. The office will be sanitized before being opened again.

Panic prevailed at the railway hospital in Ganpati Nagar when a 13-year-old daughter of a railway employee was found positive.

Flying kites turned tragic for the families of two kids who were electrocuted at sector-5 under Hiran Magri police station area of Udaipur city on Friday late evening.

While most of the coaching students in Kota have returned to their home states, 25 students from Andaman and Nicobar Islands see no hope of returning soon. Their repeated requests to the Central government for airlifting them have yielded no response

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday directed the animal husbandry department to distribute Rs 275-crore grant sanctioned recently to gaushalas.

The closure of the state borders has left hundreds of migrants, including those who have valid travel permits, stranded at the checkposts. All the 15 checkposts along the Gujarat border are flooded with migrants from eight states waiting to enter Rajasthan.

Fifty-seven new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in Rajasthan on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 3,636 in the state.

Business in Muhana mandi here has gone down by 35% in the last two days after a papaya seller tested positive on Wednesday.

With 76 new Covid-19 cases reported on Saturday in Rajasthan, the state tally of people infected from the virus has surged to 3,655 out of which 1,526 are active cases.

Signalling a slow recovery in demand, data from the Energy Information Administration showed US crude and distillate inventories rose last week.

This would mean that nearly all the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession had vanished in a single month

The WTO has found the world's two largest planemakers received billions of dollars of unfair subsidies in a pair of cases dating back to 2004

Two of its top health officials, Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Deborah Birx, would continue to be members of the task force, Trump told reporters

The incoming premier said he would make the fight against the coronavirus pandemic one of his priorities while in office

The court unanimously rejected petitions that sought to disqualify Netanyahu because he faces prosecution on felony corruption charges

It's already May, and parts of the country hit 40 degrees Celsius a few days ago, making situations worse for people living in cramped quarters to stay indoors

It would also be the sharpest annual contraction since 1706, according to reconstructed Bank of England data going back to the 18th Century

The guidance contained detailed advice for making site-specific decisions related to reopening schools, restaurants, summer camps, churches, day care centers and other institutions

Although data is scarce, member states are reporting up to a 60% increase in emergency calls by women subjected to violence, said Kludge

Zoom has been facing criticism internationally as a result of reports of hackers who disrupt meetings by posting offensive content

The BoE said Britain's economy might be on course to shrink by 25% in the three months to June and unemployment could more than double to 9% of the workforce

Economists had forecast that exports would shrink by 11% while imports would contract by 10%.

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The unemployment figures in the US have reached an all-time high due to the coronavirus pandemic

Trump also described the allegations from the opposition Democratic party that Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential elections to help him win the polls as the "Russia hoax"

Four states that have reported their highest single-day jump in cases are Assam, Delhi, Odisha and Tripura

Last week, Kim Jong-un has made his 'first public appearance' after 20 days of absence.

Brent crude was up 47 cents, or 1.5 per cent, at $29.33 a barrel by 0121 GMT, having fallen nearly 1 per cent on Thursday

The two sides agreed to maintain communication going forward, the Chinese commerce ministry said in its statement.

In order to ensure full transparency and prevent any misuse of funds, the IMF asked member countries who apply for financing to commit that it is only used for urgent purposes related to Covid-19.

News Corp also reported an 8% drop in revenue to $2.27 billion, hurt by a weaker Australian dollar and lower subscription at Foxtel.

The Labor Department's closely watched monthly employment report on Friday also showed the unemployment rate surging to 14.7% last month, shattering the post-World War Two record of 10.8%

As of May 5, more than 7.5 million Canadians had applied for some form of federal employment aid, according to government data.

The figures are stark evidence of the damage the coronavirus has done to a now-shattered economy

The Trump administration is currently weighing punitive action against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.

The United States is the worst affected country in the world from coronavirus with over 1.25 million cases in the country

While gyms, beauty salons, bars, restaurants and other such public places have been reopened, saunas, karaoke lounges, party rooms and nightclubs would remain closed for at least another two weeks

Russia, which has emerged as a new Covid-19 hotspot in Europe, on Friday registered more than 10,000 new Covid-19 cases, for a sixth straight day

As the US lost over 20 million jobs in a pandemic-induced economic spiral during April, its unemployment rate zoomed to nearly 15 per cent

In normal times, the combined number of cars produced by Mexico and Brazil every month is half a million

Elon Musk has said those employees who do not feel comfortable coming back to work are not obligated to do so

The move is likely to benefit a large number of Indian nurses and doctors in the US, who are either on H-1B or J2 visas

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