United Airlines will send layoff warnings to 36,000 employees - nearly half its US staff - in the clearest signal yet of how deeply the virus outbreak is hurting the airline industry.

The outlook for a recovery in air travel has dimmed in just the past two weeks, as infection rates rise in much of the US and some states imposed new quarantine requirements.

Veteran actor Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, popularly known by his stage name Jagdeep, passed away at the age of 81 on Wednesday.

He is survived by his two sons Jaaved Jaaferi and Naved Jafri.

In his career of more than six decades, Jagdeep acted in over 400 films and was a part of several hit Hindi films including 1975 blockbuster Sholay in which he played the character of Soorma Bhopali.

Gold prices on Thursday jumped to Rs 48,700 from Rs 48,450 per 10 gram, while silver climbed to Rs 50,020 from Rs 49,200 per kilogram, according to Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Shares of IRB Infrastructure Developers gained 3 per cent and hit a 52-week high of Rs 121.50 on the BSE on Thursday on expectations that earnings may improve going forward as road traffic reaches over 80 per cent of pre-Covid level.

The stock of the company, which is the largest private roads and highways infrastructure developer in India, has surpassed its previous 52-week high of Rs 119.70 touched on January 21, 2020.

After days of intensified manhunt, the Uttar Pradesh Police has managed to nab gangster Vikas Dubey, news agency ANI quoted sources as saying.

It is being said that he was nabbed from Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on Thursday where he had gone to offer prayers at the Mahakaal temple. He was detained by the guard.

As police intensifies the manhunt to nab Uttar Pradesh Gangster Vikas Dubey, another close aide of him, identified as Ranbir alias Babban Shukla was shot dead in an encounter on Thursday morning. He had a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head.

He was killed by a joint team of UP Police and Special Task Force (STF) in Etawah.

India may record as much as 2.87 lakh coronavirus cases per day by February 2021 if there's no vaccine developed till that time, researchers from US-Based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have claimed.

The prediction was made by a team of researchers including Hazhir Rahmandad, TY Lim, and John Sterman of MIT's Sloan School of Management. They used the SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious, Recovered) model, a standard mathematical model for infectious diseases used by epidemiologists to arrive at the conclusion.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address on Day 1 of India Global Week 2020 on Thursday.

India Global Week 2020 is a three-day virtual conference themed ‘Be The Revival: India and a Better New World’. It will have 5000 global participants from 30 nations being addressed by 250 global speakers across 75 sessions.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Jammu and Kashmir was shot dead by terrorists along with his father and brother in Bandipora on Wednesday, officials said.

Wasim Bari, his brother and father were shot at when they were sitting at a shop adjacent to their home opposite Bandipora police station. Terrorists fired upon him indiscriminately, injuring them critically. They were shifted to a hospital where they were declared brought dead.

As tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) rages on, the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 apps from their smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Tinder, PUBG and Instagram to avoid leakage of information, ANI report quoted Indian Army sources as saying.

Camscanner, Helo, Xender, ShareIt, Bumble, UC browser, Tinder, Snapchat are among the 89 apps that the army personnel has been instructed to uninstall.

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