India's May gold imports fell by 99 per cent from a year ago amid a nationwide lockdown. This, when India is the second largest consumer of the precious metal. In some good news, CMIE data showed that improved labour market conditions have added 21 million
jobs last month.
A study by
Elara Securities Inc. has put 5 Indian states in good light as they seem to have outgrown the pandemic slump. Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Karnataka are contributing nearly 27 per cent to the country's
GDP.
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COUNT SO FAR
- 12 people test positive in Mizoram
- 102 new cases in Tripura, total rises to 423
- Odisha reports 141 new cases, tally at 2,245
- Rajasthan reports 171 new cases; tally 9,271
- Andhra tally reaches 3,791 with 115 more cases
- Manipur case count stands at 85
- Jharkhand logs 675 cases
- Maharashtra's Aurangabad records 55 new cases; tally at 1,642
- Uttarakhand reports 41 new cases; total hits 999
- Assam tally reaches 1513, toll at 4
- Mumbai's Dharavi logs 1830 cases, toll 71
| World |
|
India |
|
| Tally |
Toll |
Tally |
Toll |
| 6,365,473 |
377,404 |
198,706 |
5,598 |
- Trading hours for agri-commodities revised to 9 am-9 pm
- 'Delhi Corona' app launched, to give info about bed availability
- IITs chalk out plan for graduating students
- Lockdown led to 30% surge in resumes from job seekers
- Chhattisgarh to hold final year varsity exams after lockdown ends
- Telecom industry wary of rushing staff back to office
- Delhi's famous markets Sarojini, Lajpat Nagar start opening
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
AROUND THE WORLD
- Global LNG demand faces first contraction in 8 years: Wood Mackenzie
- US CBO projects virus could trim GDP by $15.7 trillion
- French economy to contract by 11% in 2020: FM
- ISO sees global sugar deficit of 9.3 mn tonnes in 2019/20
- Indonesia's April foreign tourist arrivals plunge 87.4% y/y
- China reports 15 new cases, total at 83,022
- US records 743 new deaths, toll hits 105,099
- UK death toll hits 49,646
- Russia case tally rises to more than 423,000
- Germany's confirmed cases rise by 213 to 182,028
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