Mr O'Connell's timing was either a bit premature or just right. In the last three months a global pandemic has already killed tens of thousands
The coronavirus crisis has presented police across Indian states an opportunity to enhance their presence and impact on social media.
The small city state has benefited from lessons learned after it was the epicentre of the SARS epidemic, keeping infections to less than 1,000, writes Rahul Jacob
Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus.
It needs swift, sensible attention, writes Nikita Puri
The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown
The volume's focus is confined to the 20th century, with its earliest selection from 1907
While we don't have a lot of research on the effectiveness of homemade masks in preventing the spread of infection, scientists who study airborne diseases can offer some guidance.
Last week, Internet Archive, a nonprofit group, announced that it would drop the access restrictions for its scanned books to make them widely available to readers during the coronavirus outbreak.
While the pandemic disrupts the India release of Sir, actor Tillotama Shome talks to Ranjita Ganesan about her twenty years in the charmed world of independent cinema
The strangeness brought about by a work-from-home situation means the lines between the personal and professional blur too easily.
Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.
A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.
It is in the modern era that this book loses its lapidary elegance
Strong social networks got India through the calamity of demonetisation. By not giving migrant workers enough time to get home, the govt has likely deprived them of this
Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down. But this time the city has curled up
As the world population feverishly washes hands, an initiative by a small NGO in Uttar Pradesh seems prescient
Within 24 hours of setting up a social media group and helpline called Caremongers India on March 20, Nagaraj had 150 volunteers from across India
Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge
As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means
Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house
Excluding covid-19 related provisions, the profit after tax of the bank would have been Rs 3,260 crore
Total income during the quarter under review increased to Rs 23,443.66 crore, from Rs 20,913.82 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021
Apart from the 12 casualties on Thursday, the leakage had hundreds of people living closer to the plant in Visakhapatnam under medical emergency
The cooperative model in India went out of the way to protect milk producers
The deal could be completed as soon as this month, though no agreement has been finalised and plans may change
Had it not been for Covid-19 impact, the company would have reported a sharp 80 per cent year-on-year jump in its pre-tax profit to Rs 692 core.
NPA level of public sector banks has increased from 18 per cent in December 2018 to 19 per cent in December 2019
Recently, while 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals facility in Ahmedabad tested positive for Covid-19, one person at Sun Pharma's Halol plant tested positive.
Deal part of RIL plan to unlock 19% stake in Jio to become debt-free
The transaction is being done through an equity purchase stake that values each share at Rs 86.
IndiGo had announced pay cuts for its senior employees on March 19. However, it rolled back the decision on April 23
The company has asked an expert to investigate the mishap, even as two of the eight workmen who sustained injuries are under special care
Among verticals, the highest growth in revenue during the quarter came from communications, media and technology, which grew 5.2 per cent to $626 million
In a Q&A, Brian Humphries says his firm has handled the ransomware attack well and doesn't see any impact on client engagement
With demand from industrial, commercial and transportation down, the hit on volumes is expected to be higher for the June quarter
India's share in the $1 trillion global plastic exports market is 1% currently, while China's is as much as 10%
Caspian aims to use the funds to invest in under-served emerging enterprises and women-centric businesses.
Export growth started declining in February and turned negative in March, at -23.24 per cent
Demand for the Eats business grew 89 per cent in April, excluding India, and we've seen an enormous acceleration in demand since mid-March, Khosrowshahi said
Gross non-performing assets (GNPA) improved by 43bps to 2.01 per cent, the company said.
The plant is one of the company's three units that were served a warning letter in November 2015 for not following the prescribed operational and manufacturing quality standards
J P Morgan said that the core energy business could be staring at multi-year slump
The losses would reverse the trend growth of 11% per annum the industry has logged over the past ten years, making it one of the most adversely affected sectors of the economy
Construction activities have resumed, albeit in a staggered manner; in some pockets there is demand for yellow goods as well
The company is aiming to invest in business and would onboard around 20,000 entry-level executives in 2020
Uber reported it had seen encouraging signs in markets hit by the pandemic and posted a 14% rise in revenue for the first quarter, supported by a jump in food-delivery orders at its Uber Eats business
Analysts would track the management's commentary on Covid-19 related impact, traction in deposits post investment in YES Bank, movement of reported GNPAs, and moratorium utilised by customers
This is Jio's third major announcement in three weeks after it previously sold stakes to Facebook and Silver Lake