The revised guidelines from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on the extended lockdown have permitted information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services to function at 50 per cent strength beginning April 20.

The industry has welcomed the move but since most people in the sector are already working from home, companies are likely to take an individual call on if and how they would be implementing this new allowance.

Wholesale price inflation fell to 1% in March from 2.26% in February, government data showed on Wednesday.

The wholesale inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) fells sharply due to a fall in food prices in the country.

According to data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry, food inflation in March fell to 4.91% from 7.79% in the previous month.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, where all have been asked to stay indoors, around 3,000-plus migrants arrived at the Bandra railway station in Mumbai demanding transportation facilities to return to their native places.

Seeing putting their own and even other lives in danger, cricketer Harbhajan Singh took to Twitter to express his disappointment.

A newborn boy in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district has been named 'Sanitiser'. His father Omvir Singh, resident of Vijay Vihar, said he had named his son 'Sanitizer' because it had the capacity to fight against the coronavirus. Whenever people will talk of Corona, they will remember that it was Sanitizer that saved them, Omvir said as quoted by IANS.

Sanitiser was born on Sunday in a hospital and his mother Monika said that as soon as her husband announced that his son would be named 'Sanitiser, all medical staff started smiling.

The Centre on Wednesday issued a fresh set of guideline during the second phase of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the measures were being extended till May 3 to check COVID-19 spread.

The Union home ministry has barred all kinds of public transport and prohibited opening of public places during this period.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced halting America's funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) as he ordered a review to assess the UN body's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus. Everybody knows what has gone on there, Trump told reporters at his daily White House news conference on the pandemic.

The government on Tuesday stressed that the chain of transmission of coronavirus can be broken successfully if no case is reported for 28 days from a particular area. This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the morning announced the extension of countrywide lockdown till May 3.

The information was given by Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Aggarwal during the daily press brief when he was asked out the 40-day lockdown (post extension).

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the extension of nationwide lockdown on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a directive to the states and union territories to bring it into force.

In a letter to chief secretaries of states, administrators of union territories and all ministries and departments under the Centre, the MHA listed directions for the lockdown in all parts of the country till May 3.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning announced the extension of the countrywide lockdown till May 3, around 1500 migrant labourers, mostly from Bihar and West Bengal took to the streets of Mumbai protesting against the extension.

The migrants gathered near the Banda bus stand and demanded that be allowed to travel to their home states as they are facing problems in getting food and other essential items due to the lockdown.

The markets are bound to react negatively following the extension of the lockdown till May 3, as it could exert further pressure on the economy pushing back the recovery. As of now, most economists had predicted a low single-digit growth, but with an extension in lockdown, de-growth can become a reality.

The local economy needs to restart. This is extremely critical as we get into the Rabi crop harvesting season.

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