- Thursday, May 23, 2024
ICICI Bank on Monday (20) said it has launched voice assistance-based banking services for its customers. The bank said it has integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) powered multi-channel chatbot iPal with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant through which its retail banking customers can undertake host of banking services through voice…
SWISS drugmaker Novartis on Monday (20) reached an agreement with the US regulators to hold a randomised trial of generic malaria drug hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 disease in 440 hospitalised patients. The decades-old medicine has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 disease, but so far…
THE NHS has urged Muslim community to avoid social gatherings during the Islamic holy month starting next week because of the risk of COVID-19. This year Ramadan is due to start on Thursday or Friday (April 23 or 24), depending on the sighting of the new moon. It lasts for…
Bollywood celebrities including filmmaker Karan Johar, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar among others have expressed concern over the increase in domestic violence cases in the country during nationwide lockdown. In a one-minute video clip titled Lockdown On Domestic Violence, prominent faces including cricketers Virat Kohli, Mithali Raj, actors Madhuri Dixit, Dia Mirza,…
Passenger vehicle (PV) exports from India saw a marginal rise during 2019-20, with Hyundai leading the segment with dispatches to various global markets, as per the latest data by the industry body. PV exports stood at 6,77,311 units in FY20 as against 6,76,192 units in 2018-19, a marginal growth of…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 543 and the number of cases climbed to 17,265 in the country on Monday (20), according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 14, 175 while 2,546 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated,…
Healthcare staff across hospitals in England are being advised by the UK government to consider reusing personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns as it battles to deal with a shortage of supplies due to rising demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. Public Health England updated its guidance on PPE to…
British prime minister Boris Johnson has begun taking charge of the government even as he convalesces at Chequers in south-east England, following his hospitalisation after testing positive for coronavirus. The Sunday Telegraph reports that Johnson began giving directions to his Cabinet, including to his deputy UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab, from…
Six foreign tourists who tried to sit out the coronavirus pandemic in an Indian cave have been sent to quarantine at an ashram near a town made famous by the Beatles after running out of money, police said Sunday. The four men and two women — from France, the United…
Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic: – India curbs ‘opportunistic takeovers’ of firms – India has increased restrictions on direct foreign investment to curb “opportunistic” takeovers and acquisitions of Indian companies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the trade ministry said. Under the new…
