Seoul [South Korea], April 19 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea recorded 118,504 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Monday compared to 24 hours ago, bringing the total number of infections to 16,471,940, the health authorities said Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): A sharp rise was witnessed in the COVID-19 positivity rate in Delhi with the figure reaching 7.72 per cent while the daily infections marginally declined to 501 but remained above 500 for the second consecutive day.
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Bank Group has lowered its projection for the rate of global economic growth in 2022 from 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, President David Malpass said on Monday.
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): The Centre on Monday asked the Kerala government to update the COVID-19 data daily. Earlier, it used to report figures after a gap of five days which impacted and skewed the status of India's key pandemic monitoring indicators like cases, deaths and positiv
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): A day after joining Trinamool Congress (TMC), former Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora on Monday alleged that the grand old party, rather than fighting against the BJP, is fighting a lot within the party.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 18 (ANI): India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said it has raised 3-year funds of $500 million through a syndicated loan facility at "very fine pricing". The lender has raised the money acting through its IFSC Gift City branch.
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a geo-political analyst from Sri Lanka, said that China's loan model to Sri Lanka is ambiguous while no one knows the interest rate charged by Beijing for the money lent to the island nation.
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 18 (ANI): A man set himself on fire in Dehmazang Square in Afghanistan's Kabul on Monday with the media reports stating that he had been facing financial difficulties.
Nicosia [Cyprus] April 18 (ANI): Last Friday's clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli Police in Al-Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem were an accident (or rather an explosion) waiting to happen, following three weeks of serious violence in Israel and the West Bank, i
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): The national capital continues to register an increase in its daily COVID-19 caseload as it reported 517 new infections during the last 24 hours, said the Delhi health department on Sunday.
Karachi [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): The exchange rate of the Pakistani Rupee with the US dollar is subject to uncertainty owing to the political and economic turmoil in the country, currency experts and dealers say, Pakistani media reported.