By Administrator_India Capital Sands The euro fell to a nearly two-month low against the dollar as data on Wednesday signaled the resurgence of Covid-19 is hurting the bloc’s economic recovery as services fell into contraction territory for the first time in three months. EUR/USD fell 0.26% to $1.1676, to remain near lows of the day of […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to chair a high-level virtual meeting with the Chief Ministers and Health Ministers of seven COVID-19 hit states and UTs at 5:00 PM on Wednesday (September 23) to review the status and preparedness of coronavirus COVID-19 response and management. These States/UTs are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands According to the draft guidelines for the development of COVID-19 vaccines, a vaccine developed in India should prove that at least 50 percent of those administered with the vaccine are protected from the virus to get an approval. For vaccines that are being developed outside India, the authorisation will be provided […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Drugs Controller General of India has approved of the commercial launch of ‘Feluda’, the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Covid-19 test, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said recently. This test uses an indigenously developed, cutting-edge CRISPR technology for detection of the genomic sequence of […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The European Central Bank offered lenders a fourth round of regulatory relief to help massive stimulus efforts feed through to a virus-stricken economy. Banks will be temporarily allowed to tweak the math behind a financial strength metric known as the leverage ratio to their benefit by stripping out deposits held at central banks, the […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The dollar rebounded from lows Wednesday, as the Federal Reserve forecast rates to remain on hold until at least 2023, but also upgraded its economic outlook, citing a faster recovery. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback’s strength against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, rose by 0.17% to 93.24. […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands New Delhi: Markets ended in the green led by rally in banking and finance stocks amid a positive trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed 287.72 points or 0.74 per cent higher at 39,044.35. The broader NSE Nifty rose 81.75 points or 0.71 per cent to finish at 11,521.80. […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India has been elected as a member of the United Nation’s Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council, said TS Tirumurti, permanent representative of India to the United Nations on September 15. “Election to the ECOSOC body is an endorsement of India’s commitment to promoting […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands ByteDance has managed to meet the September 15 deadline to sell TikTok’s US operations. The company has chosen Oracle instead of Microsoft. Tiktok will have a new buyer in Oracle, as September 15 deadline to complete the sale looms large. Earlier Satya Nadella-led Microsoft was seen as leading the race to […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands In a bid to ease travel woes of several National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) aspirants, the Kolkata Metro has decided to run special services on September 13. Preparations underway at the metro stations of Kolkata Metro as it gears up to resume services from September 14 amid COVID-19. Metro Railway […]
