India is looking to restart domestic flight operations from May 25, despite registering its highest daily rise with 5,611 new cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra alone witnessed over 2,000 new cases for the third straight day.
The nationwide lockdown has cost Ola 95% of its revenue in the last two months, leading to 1,400 of its employees losing their jobs. The news comes days after Ola announced resumption of operations in more cities following new guidelines.
Here are the latest updates from today:
COUNT SO FAR:
- Goa reports 8 new cases, tally 46
- Three new cases take Assam's tally to 157
- Rajasthan reports 107 new cases; tally nears 6,000-mark
- Jharkhand now has 248 cases
- 68 new cases in Andhra Pradesh
- Karnataka reports 63 new cases; tally now 1,458
- Kerala reports 24 new cases, state tally climbs to 666
- 12 fresh cases in Himachal
- Toll in Delhi now 176; tally to 11,088 after highest single-day spike - 534
- 9 new cases reported in Uttarakhand
| World |
|
India |
|
| Tally |
Toll |
Tally |
Toll |
4,897,567
|
323,286 |
106,750 |
3,303 |
- Two-month fishing ban along Karnataka coast to begin on June 1
- Liquor shops reopen in Ranchi
- Public transport reinstated in Delhi
- Tamil Nadu to provide relief to unregistered handloom weavers
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
- Sensex 622 ends points up; Nifty above 9,050
- India's GDP to see 5% contraction in FY21, says Icra
- Debt binge to widen India’s fiscal gap to 13%: HSBC
- Dr Reddy's Q4 profit soars 76% YoY to Rs 764 crore
- PM Vaya Vandana Yojana extended till Mar 31, 2023
- Foreign investors pull out $16 billion from India
- Ola to layoff 1,400 staff
- Twitter-backed Sharechat to layoff 101 employees
AROUND THE WORLD:
- Rolls-Royce says to axe 9,000 jobs
- UK inflation falls to three-year low
- JLR resumes production at Solihull plant in UK
- US deaths projected to top 1,13,000 by mid-June
- US records over 1,500 deaths in the past 24 hours
- Germany's cases rise by 797 to over 176,000
- Brazil records 1,179 deaths; 271,628 cases
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