A new normal is now being laid out by the government and businesses alike. After a two-month long shutdown, domestic flights will be allowed to resume operations in a staggered manner starting May 25.
Ride-hailing platform Ola is laying off 1,400 staff from rides, financial services and food business as revenues declined by 95 per cent in the last two months due to
coronavirus pandemic. The news comes days after Ola announced resuming operations in more cities following new guidelines.
Here are the latest updates from today:
COUNT SO FAR:
| World |
|
India |
|
| Tally |
Toll |
Tally |
Toll |
4,897,567
|
323,286 |
106,750 |
3,303 |
- Cabinet approves free foodgrains from central pool to around 8 crore migrants who don’t have ration card. Each person will get 5 kg of wheat or rice per month for two months till June 2020.
- Farm labourer dies of hunger, dehydration while walking home to native village in Maharashtra's Parbhani district from Pune
- 6 farmers killed & 1 injured after the pickup-truck in which they were travelling collided with another truck in Friends Colony area of Etawah, last night.
- Liquor shops reopen in Ranchi, during the fourth phase of lockdown. Jharkhand has levied 75% VAT on liquor.
- Tamil Nadu govt to provide lockdown relief to unregistered handloom weavers.
- Public transport has been reinstated in Delhi during the fourth phase of lockdown.
- 204 Shramik Special trains ran on May 19.
- Dalai Lama Trust donates 200 PPEs to Himachal Pradesh's Kangra Police.
- Phase 3 of Operation Samudra Setu: INS Jalashwa continues with the mission to bring back Indian citizens stranded overseas.
- Two-month fishing ban along Karnataka coast to begin on June 1.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
GLOBAL ECONOMY:
- UK engine-maker Rolls-Royce to axe 9,000 jobs.
- World Bank says Covid-19 to push 60 million into poverty; announces $160 billion assistance to 100 countries.
- JLR resumes production at Solihull plant in UK after temporary suspension due to COVID-19.
- Chinese businesses plead for more help from Beijing.
- Spain's moneyed class step up anti-government protest in the wake of COVID-19.
- UK inflation falls to three-year low.
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