Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Friday issued an order that every COVID-19 positive person in Delhi will have to stay in 5-day institutional quarantine.

Every corona positive person will have to stay in the quarantine center for 5 days. Only then a person will be sent to home isolation. But if there are symptoms then they will be sent to the quarantine center or hospital, accordingly, the order issued by LG read.

Amazon.com Inc has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in India's eastern state of West Bengal, according to a document seen by Reuters, signalling the US e-commerce giant's first foray into the country's multi-billion-dollar sector.

In a notice on Friday, West Bengal State Beverages Corp, the authorised agency to carry out online retail of liquor trade in the state, said Amazon was among the companies found to be eligible for registration with authorities.

Mortgage lender HDFC on Friday said its board has approved to raise up to Rs 14,000 crore in tranches through various means.

The committee of directors of the corporation (HDFC) at its meeting held today (Friday), approved seeking approval of members of the corporation through postal ballot for raising of funds not exceeding Rs 14,000 crore, it said in a regulatory filing.

Communist Party (CCP) for not only displaying its "rogue" attitude in its neighbourhood but also for "pushing disinformation and malicious cyber campaigns so as to drive a wedge between the US and Europe. Pompeo's comments seemed particularly jaded in the context of the recent escalation of border tension between India and China.

It's the Chinese Communist Party that's forcing the choice, Pompeo said during an online conference on democracy held at Copenhagen in Denmark.

Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds lashed parts of Delhi and the adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) early on Saturday morning.

Earlier, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had said that thunderstorm accompanied with rain and gusty winds of speed 30-50 kmph would occur at and adjoining areas of Delhi-NCR.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that neither Chinese troops are inside the India territory nor any of the Indian posts has been captured by them, as he held an all-party meeting where leaders across political spectrum displayed a united front on the matter of national security.

Modi said that 20 brave soldiers who laid down their lives in the violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of Ladakh, "taught a lesson to those who dared to look towards our motherland".

Fuel prices in Delhi were hiked by the oil marketing companies for the 14th day in a row. From now on, petrol and diesel will cost Rs 78.88/litre and Rs 77.67/litre respectively in Delhi.

The price of petrol is increased by 55 paise (from Rs 78.37/litre) a litre while that of diesel by 63 paise (from Rs 77.06/litre) a litre.

The all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the situation in India-China border areas saw most political parties backing government`s stand against China with Congress President Sonia Gandhi seeking details of intrusion.

Sources said that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and former Defence Minister Sharad Pawar said that issues of whether soldiers carried arms or not are decided by international agreements and we need to respect such sensitive matters.

Indian house prices will fall for the first time in at least a decade this year and next as the coronavirus pandemic leads to mass job losses and hammers demand and the economic outlook, a Reuters poll showed.

The Indian property market was being hobbled by a cash crunch even before the coronavirus outbreak, which has already infected more than 350,000 in the world's second most populous country.

Private sector lender ICICI Bank on Friday sold 3.96 per cent stake in its general insurance arm ICICI Lombard for Rs 2,250 crore. This was done to strengthen the bank’s balance sheet in light of the pandemic that is expected to worsen the bad loans problem of the banks.

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