MUMBAI : Due to the coronavirus-led economic disruption, India Inc is expected to focus more on the home market and avoid venturing overseas for merger and acquisition (M&A) opportunities.Covid-19 outbreak has forced risky bets off the table in the first half of the year.

To put it in perspective, so far this year, Indian companies have signed cheques worth just $428.6 billion to acquire companies outside of India, representing just 0.5% of the global outbound M&A market, data from financial markets tracker Refinitiv shows.

For the calendar year 2019, Indian companies acquired overseas companies worth $2.8 billion, representing a market share of 3.4%.

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ALISON MCMILLAN:I'm here to provide you with the national update on the COVID-19 response and the pandemic. So I can report that we now have 7767 positive cases in Australia since the commencement of this pandemic.

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BRIT Awards 2021 pushed back by three months to May over Covid-19 concerns

Next year's BRIT Awards have been rescheduled to May 2021 over concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.

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COVID-19: Achieving herd immunity may occur sooner than previously thought

Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.The classical model that epidemiologists use to predict herd immunity estimate that the threshold for COVID-19 is around 60% of the population.But the model assumes that a population gains immunity due to a vaccination program, rather than as a result of infection during an outbreak. Mathematicians at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and Stockholm University in Sweden realized that different groups of people within a population spread infections at different rates.

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20,000 contacts in list of 5 Covid-19 positive in Kerala

Covid positive on Sunday include a paediatrician and a physician who have had close contacts with their patients.The list of 20,000 suspected contacts have been prepared and it includes all those who came in contact with them since June 5.The paediatrician's contact list includes 10,000 out patients and those who came with them and another 160 in-patients and their by-standers.In the list of the physician, 5,500 patients who have come in close contact with him have been identified and all of them have been asked to remain in isolation at their homes.At an emergency meeting on Monday with health authorities, State Higher Education Minister K.T.

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Opinion| How does India compare with other countries on testing for coronavirus?

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Covid-19: Before death, son sends videos to father alleging Hyderabad hospital denied ventilator

Hyderabad: A selfie video of a 34-year-old man, who succumbed to Covid-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad, that has gone viral on social media, alleges that he was not given oxygen support even after he complained of breathlessness.The incident that took place on Friday and the video had surfaced on social media and by Sunday had sparked outrage among social media users.In the selfie video the man is heard saying that he is struggling to breathe as his ventilator had been removed. “They have removed ventilator and have not been responding to my plea for the last three hours to provide oxygen support.

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Hairdressers, restaurants and more reopen as restrictions ease

Many of the remaining parts of the economy that were closed due to Covid-19 restrictions are reopening today.

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GMB's Dr Hillary Jones warns second Covid-19 peak 'could be worse than first'

Good Morning Britain, warning that a second coronavirus outbreak has the potential to "be worse than the first".Worried about lockdown measures easing off, the TV doctor relayed his fears to presenters Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan.Not wanting the public to become complacent as further restrictions will be lifted from July 4, Dr Hilary aired his words of warning.He said: "There's no suggestion the virus has got weaker."They're tracking it very closely around the world."An intrigued Piers asked: "We are where we were at the beginning of lockdown?"In response, Dr Hilary explained: "We know more about it."Providing his prediction, after thousands flocked to beaches across the UK last week, Dr Hilary issued his urged his fresh concern.He

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Bengaluru now constitutes 25.92% of total Covid-19 cases in Karnataka: Minister

Bengaluru had 1556 Covid-19 cases as on June 23 which has doubled to 3419 cases as on June 28. Bengaluru now constitutes 25.92 per cent of total cases in Karnataka.

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HP's Lahaul-Spiti reports first coronavirus case

SHIMLA : Himachal Pradesh's tribal district of Lahaul and Spiti reported its first COVID-19 case on Monday after a 25-year-old labourer from Bihar tested positive for the disease, officials said.The sample of the labourer, who is working with the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), was taken at the Keylong regional hospital, they said.With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Himachal Pradesh has risen to 918.The state has 379 active cases.

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Brazil signs $127m deal to manufacture Oxford Covid-19 vaccine

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Brazil has entered an agreement worth $127m to manufacture a Covid-19 vaccine candidate which was developed by the University of Oxford and licensed to AstraZeneca. Under the agreement, Brazil will be able to produce up to 100 million doses of the vaccine, with an initial target to manufacture more than 30 million doses in December and January.

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Leicester 'faces two more weeks of lockdown' to tackle coronavirus outbreak

Leicester faces another two weeks in lockdown in a bid to control an outbreak of coronavirus, it has been suggested.

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China puts half a million people back in lockdown as new Covid-19 spike feared

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Kelsea Ballerini calls out Chase Rice for 'being selfish enough' to hold a concert amid COVID-19

While most of the country remains on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, country singer Chase Rice held a concert for 4,000 people on Saturday, which lead Kelsea Ballerini to call him out.Rice, 34, held a show on Saturday night for over 4,000 fans in Petros, Tennessee, the first of 12 planned shows throughout several Southern states spanning until mid-September.When video of the concert surfaced from Rice's own Instagram story, showing thousands of fans crammed together with no masks or social distancing, Ballerini, 26, took to Twitter on Sunday to call out Rice for his 'selfish' acts.

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Zero Covid-19 deaths in these Indian states, Union Territories

COVID-19 cases. The national capital is followed by Tamil Nadu with 82,275 confirmed cases.There are ten states which have reported more than 10,000 Covid-19 cases.

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Mint Covid Tracker: Three southern states – Andhra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu – lead surge in deaths over past week

medical capacity and overburdened health system.Over the past few weeks, new infections and deaths have been rising faster in India than in most other badly-hit countries. The country’s death toll is the eighth worst in the world.

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Loved and lost: We remember the people in our region who have died after contracting coronavirus

Manchester Evening News, we have committed to remembering every person from Greater Manchester who has died after contracting COVID-19. It's easy to forget that behind the figures are people.

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Covid impact: Companies advance to co-located data centres to overcome lockdown hurdles

MUMBAI : Vineet Pol, CEO & MD, of Nashik MIDC based Avdhoot Heat Treat, that makes components for industrial furnaces had to spend almost 15 days without access to crucial financial data during the lockdown. All because the servers in their on-premise data centre (DC) collapsed and their business came to a standstill.“We could not prepare orders for dispatch because all our data was inaccessible and we could not even generate receipts.

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How the super rich invested during the covid-19 pandemic

₹100 crore and above per client family and have business families or entrepreneurs as clients. In this piece, we speak to multiple family offices to understand the investing trends among ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNIs) and families in India.Amit Patni, director, Campden Family Connect, a network of family offices said that the portfolio of the average client of a family office hasn’t changed much in the past few months.

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Bengaluru coronavirus cases double in 5 days: 10 updates

Here are 10 updates:1) Karnataka on Sunday recorded the largest single-day spike of more than 1,200 new coronavirus cases and 16 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 13,190, the health department said.2) On that day, 220 patients were discharged after recovery.3) Out of 1,267 fresh cases reported on Sunday, a whopping 783 cases were from Bengaluru urban alone.Bengaluru had 1556 #COVID19 cases as on Jun 23 which has doubled to 3419 cases as on Jun 28. Bengaluru now constitutes 25.92% of total cases in Karnataka.

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Noida: 5 arrested, over 800 vehicles penalised for violating Covid-19 curbs

COVID-19. "One FIR was registered and five persons arrested for violating CrPC 144. A total of 2,230 vehicles were checked across 200 barrier points in the district and challans issued to 819 of them, while another four were impounded," police said in a statement. The Noida-Delhi border continues to remain sealed for movement except for essential services and people having passes issued by the district administration, officials said.

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The 2020 BET Awards Set a Bar for Award Shows in the COVID-19 Era

Megan Thee Stallion delivered a Mad Max-inspired mini-movie in the desert replete with off-road vehicles, and a tiered stage made of scaffolding. Wayne Brady tapped into the late Little Richard's fabulous flamboyance with a booty-shaking tribute inside what looked like a modernist California mansion. Jennifer Hudson took viewers to church with a knockout performance of "Young, Gifted and Black," in a stark white studio. Every performance looked unique in a way that's impossible to achieve inside one of the auditoriums such shows usually take place in, and yet it all felt cohesive. Here Are All the Winners of the 2020 BET AwardsHost Amanda Seales held the show together in a way that showcased her formidable talents.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom Orders Bars to Close in L.A., 6 Other Counties Due to Coronavirus Spread

California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the closing of bars in six counties, including Los Angeles, due to the rising spread of COVID-19. Newsom announced the new order on TwitterSunday,listing Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, L.A., San Joaquin and Tulare as counties required to close bars.

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Coronavirus cases in India rise closer to 5.5 lakh, 12000 recoveries in 24 hours

coronavirus patients in India increased by 19,459 in past 24 hours, taking the tally to 548318, according data released by the Union Health Ministry today morning. The data showed 380 persons succumbed to the covid-19 in the last 24 hours as the toll increased to 16,475.

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Thousands of Scots cancer patients 'living in fear of coronavirus'

Scots with cancer are living in fear of Covid-19, according to research by Macmillan Cancer Support.About 38,000 people with cancer in Scotland – 15 per cent of those who have the disease – have barely left the house because they are scared about catching the virus.Melissa McNaughton, 31, a blood cancer patient, from Glasgow, said: “I’ve never had anxiety but being in lockdown made me anxious to leave my flat. "I’ve had a couple of panic attacks and I’ve felt so trapped.“Usually if I’m anxious or nervous about something I will go for a walk or a drive but I’ve not been able to do that.

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Busy pub shut down after more than 80 customers infected with coronavirus

the Detroit Free Press reports. Now 80 people who visited the venue between June 12 and June 22 have tested positive for Covid-19, sparking a desperate attempt to prevent them spreading the virus further.Health officials are now ordering anyone who visited the pub between these dates to self-quarantine for two weeks, amid fears of a spate of secondary infections originating from Harper's.

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Mumbai doctor on his fight against Covid-19: 'I escaped death'

COVID-19 positive which later had an effect on my appetite, taste buds and sense of smell," he said.Parkar's wife also tested positive for the coronavirus as well. But he said that he had to stay strong and did not want "to give up"."I saw my wife too was tested positive and admitted next to me in the same hospital but I was fully aware that I have to be strong and do not want to give up because if I gave up then, who will look after my wife and my family.

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Covid-19 update: MP to launch 'Kill Corona' campaign; UP announces door-to-door survey

coronavirus cases was reported in several states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal on Sunday. Tightening their containment strategy, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh announced a door-to-door survey joining other states and union territories, including Delhi, Goa and Odisha.With the country witnessing a surge in Covid-19 infections, several states have announced various measures to contain the spread of the deadly virus.Madhya Pradesh 'Kill Corona' campaignThe Madhya Pradesh government said it will launch a 'Kill Corona' campaign from July 1 to control the spread of COVID-19 in the state, where 13,186 cases have been reported so far.

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Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma tests negative for Covid-19

coronavirus infection, officials said on Sunday.The chief minister has been under home quarantine for the past four days after his return from Delhi where he took disgruntled National People's Party (NPP) MLAs of Manipur from Imphal to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The first test was conducted on Sangma, who is also the NPP president, on June 22 and the second one on Sunday, an official at the CMO said.He had made a trip to Manipur capital Imphal on June 21 to meet the four party MLAs, who switched allegiance from the BJP-led ruling coalition to the Congress.

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financial crisis in two decades, presenting monumental challenges to those who are now trying to buy a house.Hundred of thousands of Canadians lost their jobs because of the novel coronavirus pandemic and last week the new governor of the Bank of Canada said some of those jobs won’t come back, echoing the 2008 financial crisis.Millennials — people between the ages of 20 and 40 — are at a critical time in their financial development, said Moshe Lander, an economist at Concordia University.

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Kelsea Ballerini Calls Out 'Selfish' Chase Rice for Putting Fans' 'Health at Risk' With Live Show

Kelsea Ballerini is putting fellow country singer Chase Rice on blast for putting on a regular concert, without masks or social distancing enforced, in the middle of a global pandemic.

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Rankin unveils powerful portrait series dedicated to NHS staff on coronavirus frontline

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Florida on track to become the next U.S. COVID-19 epicentre

New cases of COVID-19 continue to surge across the U.S., with over 30 states seeing an increase in new cases. There are fears Florida could become the country’s next epicentre.

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As the coronavirus hits grim global milestones, Canada’s new cases, deaths drop

coronavirus cases surged past 10 million worldwide, with 500,000 deaths, Canada reported six fatalities on Sunday and more than 200 new cases.The day’s figures are incomplete, however, since British Columbia stopped issuing updates on the weekend weeks ago, and Quebec is resuming daily reporting on Monday. Coronavirus cases have hit 10 million worldwide, with 500,000 deaths.

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Saudi Arabia limits number of pilgrims ahead of Hajj

There was disappointing but expected news for millions of Muslims around the world this week, as Saudi Arabia banned foreign travellers from entering the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Redmond Shannon reports, that’s throwing a wrench into the plans of many worshippers hoping to make the trip to the holy city of Mecca.

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COVID-19 in Canada: Managing outbreaks before a second wave

The coronavirus situation in Canada may be stabilizing, but there are troubling signs that the country is not out of the woods yet. As Heather Yourex-West explains, many community outbreaks across the country are keeping people on alert, as we prepare for a potential second wave.

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Single-day record of 1,89,077 new Covid-19 cases registered globally: WHO

WHO said in its daily statistical bulletin.The latest rise to the overall case count is a significant increase from the 179,316 new positive tests reported on Saturday by the WHO.The bulk of the new cases were reported in Brazil and the United States, which confirmed 46,860 and 44,458 new positive tests over the past 24 hours, respectively.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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