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Zomato lays off 500 employees, slashes salaries as CEO blames coronavirus
Those impacted will get emails for a zoom call with the leadership team within the next 24 hours.
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Exports fall at fastest pace in 25 yrs in April due to coronavirus lockdown
Exports shrank by 60% in April as the monthwide lockdown restricted outflow of goods
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Hype and hypocrisy in the sale of liquor
Governments in India - both Central and state - must learn to separate alcohol related social issues from responsible consumption
The king's speech
What the Indian public got this week was another monologue - the fifth since March 19
Shekhar Gupta: White-collar, blue-collar, no-collar
The millions of poor going home are a wonderful new generation of aspirational, working class Indians. Modi and his government failed to account for their fate
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Covid-19 big picture: Brace for a disaster much bigger than you expected
If the business of doubling rate continues as it is currently, be prepared for bad news not just from the perspective of the coming medical challenge but also for the economy, cautions T N Ninan
Covid-19's invisible victim - humanity
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that whether any of us have the virus or not, what most of us don't have when confronted by it, is simple humanity
A catalogue of wants
Here's a catalogue of some of these
Flying blind into Covid-19
Reports this week suggest that the government has sidestepped the criteria for lifting the lockdown of the Indian Council of Medical Research
India surpasses China tally with 85,000 cases; 11th most affected: Report
India is now the 11th most affected nation in the world, but each one of the top-ten have 100,000 or more cases. The US tops the charts with more than 1.4 million cases
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The safe, secure, selfish urban class' response to migrant distress
You don't need to be on the highway to see a mile-long stream of people walking, abandoned by the cities they help build and run, every day, to see the distress
Covid-19 Factoid: Crisis in Bengal the most fatal among all Indian states
Even as the global death toll has been rising consistently, reaching 300,000 deaths from 200,000 took longer time than reaching 100,000 to 200,000
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11 steps taken by FM Nirmala Sitharaman for the agrarian economy
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a third set of stimulus measures, aiming to "put money into the hands of farmers" with plans to help agriculture infrastructure
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India overtakes China in coronavirus cases, 11th most affected: Report
As many as 2,657 people have died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India
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FM Sitharaman LIVE: Hope states fall in line with new reforms, says CII
The Finance Minister had on Thursday announced Rs 3.16 trillion support for vulnerable sections, including migrant workers, farmers, tribals, street vendors - all hit hard by locdown
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Lockdown: 1.35 mn migrant labourers return to UP amid Covid-19 crisis
Now, the state government has arranged for trains from Delhi, apart from intrastate trains from Noida, Ghaziabad and Jhansi to expedite the shifting of stranded labourers
Poor Chinese testing kits delay India's survey data, blur Covid-19 picture
Hundreds of thousands of PPE kits had to be returned to China after inconsistent results, and the govt does not have all the data it should have to decide on how and when to loosen the lockdown
UP constitutes panel to reboot real estate sector amid coronavirus crisis
A large number of housing and commercial projects are lying stuck in UP. Besides, the ongoing projects are also witnessing cancellations by investors and buyers because of the dip in earnings
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Uttar Pradesh govt seeks details of people buying medicines for fever, cold
They have also been instructed to update the information on the state's Health and Family Welfare Department website, every day by 5 pm
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How to remain mentally fit in Covid-19 era? Kevin Pieterson has an advice
In a tweet, Pietersen on Friday listed out three things tried by himself in order to stay mentally fit during these trying times brought in by the outbreak of novel coronavirus
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