New Delhi

The minister said three main things -- reviving manufacturing, diversifying export basket, focusing on newer and accepting markets -- will drive the economy going forward.

The death audit committee will go through the reports received from the hospital on Tuesday evening, which contain the death summaries of the deceased, to ascertain if these fatalities were due to COVID-19 or not.

Considering the possibility of the novel coronavirus evolving even within a country, scientists said, re-infection with a different variant will not be surprising.

India last week had rejected the map, cleared by the KP Sharma Oli cabinet, as a “unilateral act” and had asked Nepal to refrain from such “unjustified cartographic assertion”.

Without referring to the military standoff, Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong said both sides should resolve their differences through communication and adhere to the basic premise that they pose no threat to each other.

All educational institutions have been shut since mid-March, some of them from March 25 when the nationwide lockdown started to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic.

Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said from 3.38% in April, the fatality rate in the country has come down to 2.87% as against 6.4% globally.

Sporting activities have resumed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium from Tuesday afternoon in slots of one hour which needs to be pre-booked online.

Under its 'Wishbox 2.0', Mercedes Benz India is offering customised financial solutions including no EMI for the first three months.

Bharti Telecom holds around 41 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel, while foreign promoter entities own 21.46 per cent stake in the telecom firm.

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, after visiting the dedicated COVID-19 health centre, said the country has ramped up its testing capacity and around 1,50,000 tests can be conducted every day.

Earlier this week, the government had announced that scheduled domestic commercial passenger flights will resume in a calibrated manner from May 25 onwards.

The government has provided exemption and moratorium on payment of various taxes and debt as part of the package.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation said the school was in a residential colony and there was a huge demand from residents for disinfecting the compound and the road and the workers got sprayed by mistake.

The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded a high of 43.8 degrees Celsius -- four notches above the normal.

Officials said the decision to amend the earlier order was taken in public interest.