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Extremist groups are taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdowns and intensifying efforts on social media to recruit youths online by exploiting their anger and despair, asserting that the world cannot afford a lost generation due to the unprecedented global health crisis. UN chief Antonio Guterres

United Nations, Apr 28 . UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that extremist groups are taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdowns and intensifying efforts on social media to recruit youths online by exploiting their anger and despair, asserting that the world cannot afford a lost generation due to the unprecedented global health crisis. The UN […]
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Bill Gates’s coronavirus vaccine could be ready in 12 months : The foundation has directly given $250 million to the Covid-19 response, its actual commitment of manpower and expertise is much greater, stated Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said his foundation will focus all of its resources on fighting the coronavirus. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – the wealthiest charity in the world, will give its “total attention” to the Covid-19 pandemic, even at the risk that its other public health work will suffer, reports the
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Almost three million infections confirmed in at least 185 countries and territories, including some 206,000 deaths.

New cases of the novel coronavirus that emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December are being reported daily around the world. More than 206,000 people have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, while almost three million infections have been confirmed in at least 185 countries and territories. […]
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Indian funds seek to reassure investors after shutdowns fuel redemption fears. The industry continues to remain robust. AMFI chairman Nilesh Shah

MUMBAI – Fund houses in India were battling to reassure investors on Friday, amid fears of a flood of redemption requests after the unprecedented closure of six debt funds by global giant Franklin Templeton. Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, one of India’s most prominent mutual fund houses in fixed income, said on Thursday it would wind […]
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Lockdown due to COVID-19 has a drastic impact on the daily wage workers. Industries cannot be forced to pay wages to their employees during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab

Industries cannot be forced to pay wages to their employees during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, who chairs the parliamentary panel on labour, said on Monday. Amid the countrywide lockdown to check the spread of the novel coronavirus, the parliamentary panel on labour on Thursday submitted its report on the Industrial Relations Code, […]