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The euro zone's rebound from its deepest downturn on record faltered in August as growth in the bloc's dominant service industry almost ground to a halt, a survey showed on Thursday, suggesting the long road to recovery will be bumpy.

As per norms, no university can offer its programmes through franchising agreements with private coaching institutions for admitting learners and conducting courses through open and distance learning mode.

Qualcomm Inc is ramping up its effort to put 5G mobile phones within reach of billions of people and backing new connected laptops aimed at the growing number of people working at home due to the COVID19 pandemic.

Afghan negotiators and senior officials were set to fly to Doha on Thursday ahead of planned peace talks with the Taliban, after coming to a compromise over the release of prisoners that was holding up the talks, diplomatic and government sources said.

India’s COVID-19 case fatality rate due to the disease has further dropped to 1.75 per cent, while the national recovery rate has risen to 77.09 per cent.

Draft U.N. proposals to ban the use and transport of heavy fuel oil by ships in the Arctic contain waivers that will allow many vessels to keep sailing without enough regulatory control over their emissions, a study released on Thursday found.

China has offered experimental coronavirus vaccines to aviation industry workers, according to a regulatory notice seen by Reuters, in a push to inoculate highrisk groups to prevent a possible resurgence as economies reopen.

Franklin Templeton shut six debt mutual fund schemes on April 23, citing redemption pressure and lack of liquidity in the bond market. The schemes together have an estimated Rs 25,000 crore as assets under management (AUM).

The Philippine central bank said on Thursday that no account holder funds had been lost at the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) after the statelender reported it had suffered a "cyber incident" earlier this year.

French drugmaker Sanofi and its British peer GSK have started a clinical trial for a proteinbased COVID19 vaccine candidate, as pharmaceutical companies race to develop treatments against the COVID19 pandemic.

The pre-pandemic female poverty rate in South Asia was projected to be 10 per cent in 2021 but is now expected to reach 13 per cent.

Amber Brown had climbed into a city bus before dawn, had driven her eighthour shift, and she was tired. But she knew she couldnt go home.

The French government detailed on Thursday its 100 billion euro ($118.3 billion) stimulus plan to erase the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis over two years, lining up billions of euros in public investments, subsidies and tax cuts.

PUBG Mobile is now banned in India. PUBG, the incredibly popular battle royale game that was pretty much a permanent fixture on the top of the charts on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. In fact, around 25% of all of PUBG’s global gamer base...

When Bangladeshi authorities prepared to enforce a nationwide lockdown in late March, three friends fretted: How would rickshaw drivers, factory workers and other working poor people survive?

A film about a classical musicians struggle to balance his career dreams and life in contemporary Mumbai will this week return India to the main competition at the Venice Film Festival for the first time in nearly two decades.