New Delhi: India’s central bank announced new measures to encourage lending to the country’s cash-starved borrowers by injecting $6.5 billion into the banking system, ordering lenders to freeze dividends and easing rules on bad loans. In another effort to strengthen the financial system’s response to the coronavirus-fuelled slowdown, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das […]

The Dubai World Trade Centre has been converted into a massive field hospital with a capacity to treat 3,000 Covid-19 patients.

Beijing: China’s economy contracted for the first time in nearly three decades last quarter as drastic measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic brought activity to a standstill, official data showed Friday. Gross domestic product shrank 6.8 per cent in the January-March quarter from the same period a year earlier, according to figures released by the […]

The UAE Cabinet has adopted a decision, strictly prohibiting the circulation of unapproved health information.

Some Pakistanis complained about the lack of awareness about ticket purchase.

A round-up of major developments related to Covid-19 across the country.

More than 2,207,730 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.

There may be lingering fears of heading towards crowded shopping areas in the aftermath of the coronavirus, according to the Dubai Future Foundation’s head of foresight

Mansour Bin Jabr says upscale restaurants will face millions in losses over lockdown period, but casual concepts will survive