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    Tuesday, April 21, 2020

    Lockdown, Day 28: Faulty kits & D-St's oil slip

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    21 Apr, 2020 | 06:07 PM IST


    Lockdown, Day 28: Faulty kits & D-St's oil slip

    By the time most Indians woke up today, US crude prices turned negative for the first time in history. Sellers were literally paying buyers for oil. The slip showed up in D-Street later, shaving off Rs 3.34 lakh crore of investor wealth.

    India neared 19,000 cases, with over 600 casualties, even as the ICMR today asked states to avoid using the new rapid tests which we got from China, suspecting them to be faulty.

    Here is the other top news of the day...



    TALLY SO FAR
      One case found in Rashtrapati Bhavan
      5 more test positive in Odisha; cases now 79
      28 more cases in Agra; district tally nears 300
      Nagpur reports 7 new cases; district tally 88
      Rajasthan reports 52 new cases; state tally 1628
      Gujarat reports 6 more deaths; state death toll rises to 77
      Andhra reports 35 new cases; tally climbs to 757
      One more tests positive in Meghalaya
      127 new cases in Gujarat; state tally jumps to 2,066
      33 test positive in Rae Bareli with Tablighi links
      2 more gas tragedy victims die in Bhopal; toll 7
      Maharashtra reports 472 new cases; state tally now 4676
      Haryana case count stands at 252
      78 more cases in Delhi, tally reaches 2081
    World India
    Tally Toll Tally Toll
    24,94,915 1,71,249 18,985 603
    LIFE & HEALTH
      India's spending on tests crosses Rs 100 crore
      Tiruppur units eye $2-bn opportunity from PPE business
      Rajasthan ceases use of rapid testing kits over invalid results
      CLAT 2020 postponed to June 21
      ICMR withdraws defective COVID-19 test kits from WB

    BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
      Sensex tumbles 1,011 pts, Nifty below 9,000
      RBI increases WMA limit to Rs 2L cr for April-September
      Rupee settles 30 paise lower at 76.83 vs dollar
      Govt to spend Rs 4k cr more on recast crop insurance scheme
      UPI transactions drop in March, RTGS shoots
      UBS cuts target price on NBFCs by up to 60%
      Air passenger traffic may witness 30% negative growth this fiscal
      Tata Motors extends commercial vehicles' warranty
      Air traffic may face 30% degrowth this fiscal: CARE

    WORLD UPDATE
      US records 1,433 deaths in past 24 hours, 42,000
      US stock futures turn negative, down 0.3%
      Russia's cases surge past 52,000
      Singapore extends lockdown to June 1, reports 1,111 new cases
      Nippon Steel to halt third blast furnace
      Nissan to shut down global HQ through mid-May
      Chinese mainland reports 11 new cases
      Hong Kong to extend restrictions by 14 days
      France has stopped all flights outside Schengen zone
      Australia loses 6% of jobs
      Pakistan reports 16 more deaths, confirmed cases tops 9,000

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