The spike in coronavirus deaths came on the same day the number of people hospitalised broke the 100,000-mark, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
Economics and politics both have major roles in determining oil prices.
Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around will remain capped.
The positive bias was aided by metal, realty and auto indices
Lonely Planet has nammed Sikkim the best region to visit in 2014. Here are some snapshots from one of India's most beautiful state.
Images that capture what it was like living through 2021.
Even if the central bank doesn't pull the trigger later, it is still expected to by the end of the year.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) raised the prospect of a lucrative Twenty20 series against a West Indies team on Tuesday after confirming they had held further talks with Texas billionaire Allen Stanford.
As we have entered the last month of 2019, here's a rewind of the top moments in November.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
His 9-gold athletic haul at the Olympics remains unrivalled with Usain Bolt coming close with 8. Raj Kishore Mishra, former joint secretary at the sports ministry, salutes Carl Lewis, 'Sportsman of the 20th Century' on his 60th birthday.
Bank shares were the top losers after sharp gains last week.
Market breadth remained strong with 1,581 advances over 1,018 declines on the BSE
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has offered to put up $100 million (50 million pounds) for England to play five Twenty20 games against his West Indies All-Star team. England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke had said the prospect of England taking part in a winner-takes-all $20m match in West Indies is "very likely".
Foreign exchange reserves of the oil producers have increased by $1.1 trillion over the past decade.
Bucks hold moment of silence for Wisconsin parade attack victims.
Consequences of China's efforts to stabilise its equity markets after three weeks of declines, which wiped out some 30 per cent of the value is far more importance to the world, says Clyde Russell.
In a commercial scheme that attempts to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change, water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new, yet-to-be-built water hub in Mumbai and then exported to arid cities in the Middle East.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it had terminated, with immediate effect, its contracts with the Stanford group following a meeting of the executive committee on Friday. The Texas billionaire is accused of being involved in an $8 billion (5.5 billion pounds) fraud.
A doctor from Sierra Leone, who was being treated at a US hospital for Ebola, died on Monday. This is the second death in the country due to the deadly virus which has killed thousands of people in West Africa.
Both countries have seen huge increases in their economies, which mean more large factories and power plants to sustain such growth.
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has given West Indies cricket US$100 million over three years in a bid to bring the game into the 21st century.
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Researchers have developed a quick-acting Ebola vaccine that is both safe and effective with a single dose
Traders have all but given up attempting to predict where the new-year rout will end
Biden alleged that Trump has used everything as a "dog whistle" to try to generate racist hatred and division.
The task of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to keep inflation under check, even when the country reeled under severe drought for two years in a row, and reduce the current account deficit, was made easier by low crude oil prices.
BSE Realty index zoomed by almost 7% followed by counters like Metal, Oil & Gas, Auto, Banks, Auto, Healthcare and Power, all surging between 1-5%.
Asia has opened largely in the green ahead of a raft of Chinese data due during the day.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC and Infosys were the top Sensex gainers.
Why are students being forced to go abroad to study?
Lt Col Raja "Grinder" Chari, 39 is in the batch of 2017.
Ril's shale gas may be impacted due to fracking ban
This is the Centre's highest-ever budgeted capital outlay.
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
West Africa is in the midst of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that some 9,000 people have contracted the disease so far. Heath officials put the death toll at around 4,500, meaning that one in two people who get Ebola in this outbreak die. The odds are not good.
Why must Indians adjust their time-tested system because of what the West needs, asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
A health care worker from the United States of America has been diagnosed with Ebola after treating a patient who died of the deadly disease last week, sending officials scrambling to find the "breach in protocol" that resulted in her infection - the first case contracted on American soil.
Here's a view of the unbelievable destruction the fire has brought on.
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