All COVID-19 restrictions and prohibitions will be lifted in Delhi with effect from the intervening night of February 27 and February 28 till further orders.

As of March 14, 8,973 applications for the PM Cares for Children Scheme have been uploaded on the portal out of which, 4302 applications have been approved by the respective district magistrates after due process.

Companies in states such as Maharashtra, Haryana, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were lead states to add majority or 61 percent of the net payroll additions recorded in January, said the retirement fund body.

Deltacron, the new variant of coronavirus is a hybrid of Delta and Omicron i.e. it contains the elements of both variants.

Covid variant XE: UK’s Health Security Agency has said that at present, there is not enough evidence to draw conclusions about the variant's transmissibility and severity and how effective vaccine are against it.

The variant is a recombination of BA.1 and BA.2, two strains of the Omicron variant, and early trends suggest it may be up to 10 percent more transmissible than BA.2

Countries like US and Singapore require a negative RT PCR test on arrival.

Brent futures fell $3.82, or 3.7%, to $98.96 a barrel by 11:44 a.m. EDT (1544 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell $3.50, or 3.6%, to $94.76.

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Visa enjoys a majority market share in India's credit card market.

India fell into a short-lived technical recession in FY21. But while growth has rebounded since then, albeit on a low base, it will take more than a decade to overcome the losses incurred during the pandemic, according to the central bank's latest currency…

As the five-day May Day holiday began Saturday, local officials announced a ban on dining in restaurants until Wednesday.

Brent crude was down $1.97, or 1.9 %, at $103.97 a barrel by 11:17 EDT (1517 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell $1.90, or 1.8%, to $101.23 a barrel.

While the BA.4 strain has been confirmed in Telangana and Tamil Nadu, BA.5 has been found only in Telangana so far. Both patients are showing mild symptoms

But immunologists are not convinced, noting that new vaccines may not be needed as COVID has become endemic.