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All BJP MPs & MLAs to donate one month remuneration /salary to the Central Relief Fund

Abbott Laboratories launches portable 5-minute COVID-19 test

JUST IN| Stone pelting by crowd at police in Bongaigaon, Assam when cops turned up to shut vegetable market. CPRF fires blank rounds to disperse crowd

Assam: Many private hospitals roped in to provide cashless treatment to all beneficiaries under AAA & PMJAY

Smart Protection Unit in association with Royal Global Group distributed food & other essentials to the Mother’s Old Age Home in Guwahati, enough to cover three weeks

Indian Railway prepares isolation coaches

Mizoram: Zoram Medical College officially designated as COVID- 19 isolation and treatment center with immediate effect

BREAKING | UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for Coronavirus

Deatils of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for donation

Total number of COVID-19 in India rises to 724

10-month-old baby in Karnataka gets COVID-19

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: 5 hospitals with 300 beds operational for 5 years to be set up. These pre-fabricated hospitals would function as normal hospitals with ICU & ventilators

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: GMCH to be open only for emergency, maternity & delivery & cancer cases

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) to exclusively treat coronavirus patients

MLA Mmhonlumo Kokin sets up COVID-19 control room in Bhandari, Nagaland

Assam: Details of bank account for donation to help fight coronavirus

Assam Arogya Nidhi

A/c no. 32124810101

State Bank of India

IFSC Code: SBIN0010755

International sand artists Sudarshan Pattnaik makes a sandart appeling people to stay at home

JUST IN | All open markets of vegetables & meat are being closed: Assam Police

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: Request to every one – please do not go out of our own Home

Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid appeals to all Muslims to offer Friday prayer from home

Despite government request to the masses to stay indoors and maintain distance due to the global outbreak of coronavirus, a common scene during the last couple of days at commercial hub of the Northeast, Fancy Bazar in Guwahati, Assam. This was the scene at Fancy Bazar on Friday

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal visited the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH), Dibrugarh and reviewed preparedness to tackle #COVID19 on Thursday

Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) is ready with special 30-bed state-of-art ICU with ventilation facilities, which shall be kept reserved exclusively for #COVID2019 patients

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is a twitter message said: I am very proud of our incredible team at #GMCH which worked very hard to create this new ICU, with 30 beds in matter of few days, since my last visit here. Happy to see the state-of-art ICU with ventilation which shall be kept reserved exclusively for #COVID2019 patients.

RBI governor: Depositors should not resort to panic withdrawal of their deposits

RBI governor urges depositors of private banks to not indulge in panic withdrawal. The macros stronger than what it was post the financial crisis, the fiiscal deficit and CAD is much lower and inflation conditions are benign. I remain optimistic despite current challenges. COVID-19 is upon us but this to shall pass. Stay clean, stay safe and go digital

RBI governor: Indian banking sector is safe and sound. Depositors of commercial banks including private banks need not worry on the safety of their funds

RBI governor: RBI has injected liquidity of Rs 2.8 lakh crore via various instruments equal to 1.4% of GDP. Along with today’s measures liquidity measures equal to 3.2% of GDP. RBI will take continuous measures to ensure liquidity in the system

RBI governor: Lending companies, banks are allowed to defer interest on working capital repayments by three months. Banks may also reassess working capital cycle and will not be treated as non-performing assets

RBI governor: Cash Reserve Ratio cut by 100 bps to 3% of NTDL with effect from March 28, 2020

RBI governor: Large sell offs in markets have intensified pressure. RBI will conduct auctions of long term repo operation (LTRO) of three-year tenure up to Rs1 lakh crore at floating rate linked to policy rate

RBI governor: Measures will result in total liquidity injection of Rs 3.74 lakh crore to system

RBI governor: Mitigating debt servicing burden to prevent transmission of financial stress to real economy, provide relief to borrowers. A three-month moratorium is announced on payment of installments of loans outstanding on March 1, 2020

RBI governor: Repo rate now stands at 4.20% vs 5.15% earlier

RBI governor: India has locked down economic activity. Keeping finance flowing is the paramount objective of the RBI. India has locker down economic activity and financial activity is under severe stress

RBI Governor: RBI has taken several measures to inject substantial liquidity. Priority is to undertake strong and purposeful action to protect domestic economy, need for all stakeholders to fight against the pandemic and banks should do all they can to keep credit flowing

RBI governor: Outlook is highly uncertain and negative

RBI governor: Appropriate that MPC decisions and other RBI actions must be seen as a comprehensive package with force multipliers. First are measures to expand liquidity in the system. Strong fiscal steps necessary to deal with situation, steps to enforce monetary transmissions and efforts to ease financial stress caused by COVID-19

The RBI rate cut comes just a day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package for the poor

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das announces a massive 75 basis points cut in repo rates as a measure to counter the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

G20 Pledges $5 trillion to revive global economy, PM calls For WHO reform

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is based on a last-century model and needs reform

The US has recorded 1,178 deaths, while the global death toll stood at 23,293

US tops world in coronavirus cases, overtaking China and Italy

23-year-old youth from Punjab, who jumped to death from Safdarjung Hospital, tests negative for coronavirus