By Administrator_ India Capital sands The doubling rate of COVID-19 disease in India has increased to about 70 days, which indicates a substantial fall in the daily new coronavirus cases and the consequent increase in the time taken to double the total infection, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. According to the Union […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands In a step to understand an individual’s travel behaviour amid coronavirus outbreak, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) on Tuesday (October 13, 2020) started a ‘break the peak’ survey. It is an online survey to study the possibility of commuters planning their travel in flexible timings in order to […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Oil prices were steady in early trade on Tuesday, sitting on losses of nearly 3% from the previous session after supplies began to resume in Norway and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Libya resumed production at its largest oilfield. The return of supply comes as resurgent COVID-19 infections in […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Supreme Court will work with its pre-pandemic strength from today as its 12 benches with about 30 judges would assemble through video conferencing daily. Five benches of two to three judges in different combinations had been sitting on working days to hear around 20 cases daily since the outbreak of […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that decides on key lending rates on October 7 started its three-day meeting. There is a broad consensus that the committee will adopt a status quo on policy rate decision, to be announced on October 9, as […]
BY Administrator_ India Capital sands In normal times, vice presidential debates don’t matter much. But in an election year as wild as 2020, everything is magnified. Vice President Mike Pence on October 7 faced considerable pressure to boost coronavirus-stricken President Donald Trump’s flagging re-election hopes as he trails in national and battleground state polls. California Senator Kamala Harris stepped on stage having […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday mandated usage of electronic book mechanism for issuance of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) instruments. The mechanism has been made mandatory for such instruments irrespective of the issue size. Perpetual non-cumulative preference shares, innovative perpetual debt instruments and perpetual debt instruments, commonly referred to as AT1 instruments, […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands United States President Donald Trump on October 6 stopped talks with the Democrats on another coronavirus-related stimulus package, accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of not holding negotiations in good faith. In a series of tweets, Trump said he had instructed his representatives to stop negotiating “until after the election when, immediately after […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”. A panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced the recipient on October 5. The medicine prize carries particular significance this year […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands One month from Election Day, President Donald Trump is facing a credibility crisis as yawning as his health crisis, at a moment when he needs the public’s trust the most. The president’s coronavirus infection, as well as the illnesses of several aides and allies, has imperiled the highest levels of the U.S. […]