Shares of AGS Transact Technologies, a payment solutions provider, dropped more than 8 per cent over their issue price on Monday. The company’s IPO, first for calendar 2022, had garnered 8 times subscription. Its shares ended at Rs 161.3, down Rs 14.7, or 8.4 per cent, over IPO price of Rs 176. Its stock touched a high of […]
Protesters blocked roads in Patna and other places in Bihar on Friday after opposition parties called a bandh over alleged “irregularities” in the Railway Recruitment Board exam. A passenger train was set on fire and another was attacked with stones in Bihar in violent protests by students against the railway jobs exam on a day […]
The coronavirus situation in Delhi is under control and the city is expected to report less than 5,000 cases of the infection today, said city health minister Satyendar Jain. Speaking to news agency ANI, he also said the positivity rate in the national capital will also decline from the current 10 per cent. “The Covid situation is […]
Covid-19 precaution dose for healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons aged above 60 with co-morbidities will be rolled out from Monday in Karnataka. Around 21 lakh people in the state are eligible, according to the Karnataka Health Department. Karnataka on Sunday reported 12,000 new Covid-19 cases, out of which 9,020 were recorded in Bengaluru. The positivity […]
The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an “evolutionary mistake” as COVID-19 is transmitting very efficiently and there is no reason for it to become milder, indicating that the next variant could be more virulent, a leading Indian-origin scientist from the University of Cambridge has warned. […]
Gold prices edged higher on Wednesday as rising Omicron variant coronavirus cases helped its safe-haven appeal, but trading was range-bound as investors awaited the minutes of the US Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting as rate hike bets grow. Spot gold was up 0.32 per cent at $1,820.41 per ounce by 1132 GMT, with US gold futures […]
As many as 33 people, including 32 hospital staff and one emergency doctor, have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at Lucknow’s Medanata Hospital, news agency ANI reported. Everyone is reported to be asymptomatic. “Most of the doctors who have been infected are those who go for sample collection and this could be the […]