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India sees third COVID-19 death, number of affected climbs to 126
17 Mar 2020
A 63-year-old man, who returned from a trip to Dubai, and was under treatment at the state-run Kasturba Hospital in south central Mumbai for the past five days, died on Tuesday
COVID-19: Modi moots $10 bn Saarc fund; discusses way forward
16 Mar 2020
India, Modi said, has set up an Integrated Disease Surveillance Portal to better trace possible virus carriers and the people they contacted and that this surveillance software could be shared with other Saarc member countries
India takes first COVID-19 toll as 76-year-old dies in Karnataka
13 Mar 2020
The victim, who had returned to India on 29 February after a month’s stay in Saudi Arabia, initially showed no symptoms, but was later admitted to a private hospital in Kalaburgi where he was provisionally diagnosed with “mid zone Viral Pneumonia" and “suspected COVID-19
India locks down as COVID-19 cases rise to 73
12 Mar 2020
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday declared COVID-19 a global pandemic as the disease spread to 113 countries, infected over 1,20,000 and took a toll of 4,284
Oil fall pummels Saudi Aramco shares to below IPO levels
09 Mar 2020
Saudi official selling prices for crude fell $8-$10.25 below Brent, registering the sharpest fall in at least 20 years even as the Opec kingpin hinted at hiking production by more than 2 million barrels per day
Number of COVID-19 cases in India rises to 31
06 Mar 2020
Oil drops further as Opec, Russia fail to agree to sharp supply cuts
06 Mar 2020
US benchmark US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures hit another low of $45.31, down 1.3 per cent from its Thursday’s lows, by 12:30 Eastern Time while North Sea Brent oil futures lost 1.3 per cent at $49.33 a barrel
Nasa's Curiosity rover captures highest-resolution Martian panorama yet
06 Mar 2020
Meanwhile, an international team of astrobiologists analysing Martian data sent by Curiosity, believe that the organic molecules discovered by Curiosity rover could be evidence of life on Mars
Coronavirus cases in India swell to 28 as 22 more test positive
04 Mar 2020
With 16 of the new 22 confirmed cases turning out to be tourists from Italy, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said that from now on all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening
Govt curbs export of bulk drugs, formulations as COVID-19 threat looms
03 Mar 2020
Besides the two confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported yesterday, the government said it had also detected “high viral load” in six people who had been in contact with a patient who contracted the virus in the capital