In just the last one week, with Covid numbers yet to flatten across the world, the market saw two significant merger and acquisition deals — Reliance Retail picking up majority stake in Chennai-based e-pharmacy Netmeds, and PharmEasy moving to merge with smaller rival Medlife. And the launch of e-commerce giant Amazon’s online drug delivery services.

According to government estimates, hotels contribute to 8% of Delhi’s GDP, the service sector accounts for 60% of all jobs, while weekly bazaars provide employment to nearly 5 lakh families.

Over the last two weeks, daily new detections have fallen below 60,000 on a few days, even though this has been mostly after the weekends, when testing numbers usually fall significantly.

Prashant Bhushan for contempt of court case: “A three-Judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has decided to hear a few serious questions on the scope and extent of contempt of court. Certainly, there are more graver issues, involving substantial questions of law as to the interpretation of the Constitution of India."

Anil Deshmukh, however, took a veiled swipe at the judgment for how it affected rights of states, saying the verdict should lead to discussion among constitutional experts over the federal structure of the Indian Union.

Police are analysing the radio set and mobile phone found from the handbag of the the 30-year old forest guard, Hetal Solanki, who was seven months pregnant.

An Air India official confirmed that the Hong Kong authorities had banned flights for two weeks but did not detail the reasons for the restrictions.

In an interview to The Indian Express, Bhushan said the mission follows a “privacy by design” approach to ensure that standards followed to protect patient information and their privacy are “of the highest nature”.

‘Only students of state will be absorbed in govt services’; move ahead of bypolls.

Sources described their meeting as “excellent”. Receiving her first overseas guest since the Covid-19 pandemic began, Hasina is said to have “greatly appreciated PM Narendra Modi’s gesture in sending someone to touch base and convey how the two sides could take their relationship forward”.

The courts, however, have been averse to extending such reservation to public employment, as it violates constitutional guarantees made to citizens against discrimination.

Replies sent by the PSUs show that in many cases, they donated from their unused allocation for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities for 2019-2020 to the fund that was launched with just four days left for the financial year to end.

Two entirely different funds with different object and purpose: Bench

The friction between Malik and Sawant first became public on July 16, when the Covid case count clocked 1,272 and the Governor pointed to the government's “mistakes” and “shortcomings”.

Out of the 5.95 lakh cases of the novel coronavirus infection (including both active and cured/discharged cases) in Maharashtra — which tops the country in absolute case count and number of deaths — over 66,000 have been children and young people up to age 20.

When the history of classical music is written, Pandit Jasraj will be remembered as the gold standard of male voices in a generation of vocalists that included Kishori Amonkar and Girija Devi.

Ankhi Das was named in the WSJ report that citing business imperatives, she “opposed applying hate-speech rules” to at least four individuals and groups linked with the BJP despite the fact that they were “flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence.”

Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V: “The Indian Mission is engaging separately with the Russian side through our embassy in Moscow. We are now awaiting the safety and efficacy data of this vaccine for Covid-19,” a source said.

State-owned telecom companies, BSNL and MTNL, have already been asked to complete such an audit. The two have floated a request for proposal for the audit work.

Sources said the conversation was “positive” and “productive” although the boundary dispute was not discussed. The meeting focused on border infrastructure projects and a cross-border oil pipeline.

Yediyurappa also said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been set up to probe the violence after a mob attacked two police stations and a Congress MLA's house after the social media post was put up by the legislator's nephew on August 11.

Apart from seeking that the judgment be kept in abeyance, the statement urged the Supreme Court to hold an open hearing after the pandemic by a larger bench to “review the standards of criminal contempt”.

Officials say the workers were trained for a week on safety measures and assistance in Covid wards, including how to change oxygen cylinders, check blood pressure, etc. In Kolkata, they have been housed in the youth hostel at Salt Lake stadium.

According to police, the drive to trace missing or abducted children in Gujarat was initiated by Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Bhatia from August 6.