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The online meeting beat a funding target of $7.4 million for Gavi to provide vaccines at a reduced cost to 300 million children worldwide over the next five years, the group said.

Consumer confidence collapsed in May 2020, with the Current Situation Index touching historic low and the one year ahead Future Expectations Index also recording a sharp fall, entering the zone of pessimism, a survey said.

In a video message on the eve of the World Environment Day, Javadekar said there are many constraints for India in conserving the biodiversity, like 16 per cent of world's human population and 16 per cent of cattle population living on 2.5 per cent of wor...

About 9,500 theatres are shut, and business at multiplexes and single-screen cinemas is unlikely to bounce back for weeks or even months, as infection fears linger.

There were as many 456.26 lakh UPI based transactions through which Rs 9,622.38 crore were transacted. Value of IMPS-based transactions stood at Rs 7,653.71 crore.

While the average testing/million population in Delhi was 2018, some districts such as northeast (517 tests/million population) and southeast (506 tests/million population) were far below.

The virtual meeting, hosted by Britain, aims to raise $7.4 billion for immunisation programmes stalled by the pandemic, and launch a new fundraising drive to support potential COVID-19 vaccines.

The admission comes in a week where the government has faced criticism by a statistics watchdog over incomplete test data, pressure over turnaround times for test results and teething issues with a new test and trace programme.

A division bench of Justices SJ Kathawalla and SP Tavade was hearing a petition filed by Air India pilot Deven Kanani, who claimed the airline was not keeping the middle seats vacant in flights bringing back stranded people to India.

On May 27, a major blowout took place at the OIL well at Baghjan in Tinsukia district forcing the administration to evacuate thousands of people living nearby to relief camps.

Salman Sulemani's family claims they were made to run from one hospital to another in Delhi before he was admitted to AIIMS Rishikesh where he tested positive and was on ventilator for the final two days before his death.

In a letter, Macron communicated to Modi that France was ready to extend any support that India might consider necessary to come to the aid of those directly affected by the cyclone, they said.

Bayer inherited this and other lawsuits two years ago as a result of its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto.

In a filing to the BSE, the company said the committee approved allotment of 4,000 non-convertible debentures having face value of Rs 10 lakh each on private placement basis to identified investors.

A throwback picture featuring Suhana Khan, Ananya Panday and Shanaya Kapoor at Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday bash has made its way to the internet.

An Amazon spokeswoman said the company does "not offer comments on speculation of what we may or may not do in future."