President Donald Trump has said the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands and brought life in countries across the world grinding to a halt could end by July in the United States.

So it seems to me that if we do a really good job... people are talking about July, August, something like that, Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked how long the outbreak might last.

The Supreme Court will hear BJP's petition seeking a floor test in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday (March 17). The state assembly was adjourned till March 26 by the Speaker on Monday without conducting a floor test citing the coronavirus outbreak.

The development was a setback for the BJP in the state, whose MLAs launched a protest outside the Assembly.

E-commerce marketplace Flipkart and Aegon Life Insurance on Monday joined hands to sell comprehensive insurance solutions for customers looking for instant digital policies with a sum assured of up to Rs 10 lakh.

With instant life insurance cover through a digital policy as its core value proposition, such policies do not require medical tests or paperwork.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Vodafone against the levy of one-time spectrum charges (OTSC).

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Vodafone, told a bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice MR Shah that the charges are related to the adjusted gross revenue (AGR).

Indian benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty extended their opening loses on Monday with the former losing 1950 points or 5.72% and the latter shedding 440 points or 4.43%.

About 190 shares have advanced, 730 shares declined, and 62 shares are unchanged.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday summoned Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani in connection with its money laundering prove against the founder of crisis-hit Yes Bank Rana Kapoor.

Ambani has been asked to depose at the ED office in Mumbai as the Reliance Group companies are among the entities whole loans went bad borrowed from the bank.

As four Congress MLAs in Gujarat tendered their resignations, the party on Sunday evening shifted 37 of its MLAs to a resort in Jaipur to prevent any more resignations. All of them were taken to Hotel Shiv Vilas in Jaipur.

In a big jolt to Congress, at least four party MLAs in Gujarat tendered their resignations ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections, sources quoted by Zee News have claimed. The development comes within a week after 22 Congress MLAs resigned in Madhya Pradesh, bringing the Kamak Nath-led government to the brink of collapse.

Shares of YES Bank recorded their sharpest intra-day gain -- 58 per cent -- to Rs 40.40 on the BSE on Monday in an otherwise weak market after the Union Cabinet approved the reconstruction of the crisis-hit private sector lender as per the scheme proposed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

At 10:34 am, YES Bank was trading at Rs 38.85, up 52 per cent against its previous day’s close of Rs 25.55 on the BSE. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 4.8 per cent at 32,483 points. The counter has seen huge trading volumes with a combined 106 million shares changing hands on the NSE and BSE so far.

Amid the increasing number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in India, all cinema halls, multiplexes, cineplexes and gyms in Noida have been closed till March 31.

All cinema halls, multiplexes, cineplexes, and gyms in the district to remain closed till March 31, in view of COVID-19, Brajesh Narayan Singh, District Magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar informed.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath called on Governor Lalji Tandon late on Sunday night.

Coming out of the Raj Bhavan around 12.20 am, Nath told reporters that the governor had called him for a discussion.

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