The Executive Chairperson of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw recently through social media platform Twitter announced that she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. In her tweet informing the people of her health, the 67-year old biotech industry veteran said, “I have added to the COVID count by testing positive. Mild symptoms n I hope…
Workers at India’s biggest two-wheeler exporter Bajaj Auto, are reportedly demanding the temporary closure of one of its plants after 250 employees tested positive for coronavirus. The recent demand by the union comes at a time when the company is struggling to ramp up operations. India went into complete lockdown in late March to curb…
Toyota Kirloskar Motor India Ltd recently notified that two of its employees at the Bidadi manufacturing plant near Bengaluru, have tested positive for COVID-19. The company said that due to health and safety concerns of other employees, it has temporarily suspended operations at the plant. The automaker said in a statement that the two employees…
Elon Musk has become controversy’s favorite child. The serial-entrepreneur has been in news during the coronavirus pandemic for many reasons, starting from calling Tesla’s stock price “very high” to taking American astronauts into space on a Falcon rocket. But this time, things have turned worse for the founder of Tesla Inc. Days after Musk defied…
After briefly suspending operations at its Chennai factory, Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer, Nokia said that it has resumed operations at the plant with minimum required strength. Earlier last week, the company had suspended operations as 42 of its employees were reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Although Nokia is allowed to run the factory with 33%…
Soon after an employee at Maruti Suzuki India’s Manesar plant tested positive for the coronavirus, three employees at Hyundai Motors’ Chennai plant have also tested positive for the virus. The recent development of positive coronavirus cases in workers at two of India’s biggest carmakers comes just days after restarting operations, exposing the risks companies and…
Just days after reopening its production plant at Manesar, India’s largest automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki announced that one of its employees at the plant has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. A company spokesperson informed the media that the company is also looking at “a possibility of a second case” of infection at the plant…
The state of Maharashtra has become the worst affected state in India due to the coronavirus pandemic. The state so far has confirmed 1,619 positive cases and about 140 people have lost their lives. The state’s capital Mumbai, which is also the financial capital of India has since last month came to halt. Organizations which…