Doha: The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs in Qatar has announced certain concessions to immigrants who are unable to return to the country due to the restrictions placed in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. The ministry has said that persons whose Qatar ID expires and whose six-month validity of Qatar Residence Permit…

Global software major Infosys vacated one of the buildings in the city’s southern suburb after a team member was suspected for coronavirus (COVID-19), an official said on Friday. ‘To ensure preparedness, we are evacuating only the IIPM building as a precautionary measure on receiving information that a team member from the building may have been…

Coronavirus porn is spreading as fast as the pandemic, as is quarantine porn and hazmat-suit porn. ‘MILF In Coronavirus Quarantine Gets Hard F****d for Medicine’ is the title of a new video doing the rounds. And there are hundreds of such videos. Most roleplay as health workers and patients, others as dying couples. Depravity is…

‘Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a university chair. But all the change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists.’ In the context of the current debate on the importance and modes of dissent, these words of A J P Taylor, a renowned British historian and journalist,…

The government on Saturday increased excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre as it looked to mop up gains arising from fall in international oil prices. The special excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in case of petrol and to Rs 4 in…

After early morning carnage of another 10% on benchmark indices, trading came to a standstill. Nonetheless, soon after opening the market recovered by a sharp quantum, which is the biggest ever intra-day recovery. A couple of moves have lifted sentiments: 1. Recovery in US Stock Futures: The sharp gains on the Indian indices after the market…

Friday’s mega recovery doesn’t mean that markets have returned to the bull phase. Downside risk for the Indian markets cannot be ruled out in the near term, given uncertainty across the globe. The Sensex on Friday skyrocketed over 4,715 points from its intra-day low and closed with a gain of 1,325 points, or 4.04 per…

Wall Street stocks rallied Friday to conclude a bruising week on a more upbeat note as US President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 23,173.86, up nearly 2,000 points or 9.3 percent, recovering most of Thursday’s losses. The broad-based S&P 500 jumped…

Bitcoin plummeted to its lowest in almost a year on Friday before rebounding sharply, as coronavirus panic selling hit asset classes across global markets. In highly volatile trading, bitcoin fell over 20% to around $3,850 in overnight trading, its lowest since March last year, before clawing back some of its losses. It was last up…

Reportedly the indian rupee dropped to a record low on friday, weighed down by worries over the coronavirus pandemic that has prompted investors to dump riskier assets and move towards safe havens. The dollar stood tall on friday as investors scrambled for the world’s most liquid currency amid deepening panic while the euro nursed losses…

Reportedly the indian rupee dropped to a record low on friday, weighed down by worries over the coronavirus pandemic that has prompted investors to dump riskier assets and move towards safe havens. The dollar stood tall on friday as investors scrambled for the world’s most liquid currency amid deepening panic while the euro nursed losses…

LUCKNOW: The fire of protests against the NRC to the CAA that is erupting day by day is causing chaos and revenge among the people. The Yogi government of UP has decided to bring an ordinance to compensate the people who have damaged public and private properties during protests, agitations, processions and dharna. The draft of…