By Administrator_India Capital Sands India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, but in few places would the odds of containing the disease appear so bleak should domestic transmission start to multiply. Officials hope to be testing 20,000 people daily by the […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to “challenge the darkness” spread by the coronavirus crisis. Modi, who imposed a three-week long nationwide lockdown on March 25, asked all citizens […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to a Reuters tally of official data. Italy had the most deaths, more than 13,900, followed by Spain. The […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Japan’s government and ruling parties agreed to exempt firms from certain taxes if their sales decline by more than half from the previous year in any three-month period between February and October amid the coronavirus outbreak, Kyodo newswire said on Thursday. Firms would be exempted from taxation on property and assets […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Asian stocks clung to gains on Wednesday, helped by a bounce in Australian shares, but risks for equities remain large as the coronavirus pandemic rattles the underpinnings of the global economy. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 traded 1.39% lower in Asian trade, highlighting the cautious mood. MSCI’s broadest index of […]
By Ritu, Capital Sands India stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares higher. At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 3.82%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 3.62%. The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, the deadliest day yet in the country’s mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship as a sign of hope in the city’s desperate fight. In a grim new milestones […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands President Donald Trump, who excoriated General Motors Co. on Friday and invoked emergency powers to compel the production of badly needed ventilators to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, has abruptly shifted gears to praise the automaker. Trump, who has been on the defensive for not moving faster to compel the production of […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India stocks were mixed after the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Public Sector Undertakings and Metals sectors led shares higher while losses in the Auto, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors led shares lower. At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.22%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.44%. The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The U.S. dollar slid below the $100 mark on Friday morning in Asia after the United States was set to move forward on a $2.2 trillion relief package to deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies, slid […]