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Hold your rice bowl firmly, fill it with Chinese grain: China to its people

China should always be self-sufficient in rice and wheat, as well as other cereals, while maintaining an "appropriate volume" of imports, the agriculture minister said

Hope force: India's army of 600,000 virus-hunting women goes on strike

ASHA workers act as a stopgap in the country's porous health care system, delivering assistance from maternal health to immunization in its vast rural hinterland

Maggi noodles to chyawanprash: What India has been spending on in pandemic

Consumers around the world are showing an increased interest in safeguarding their health and boosting their immunity

HDFC Bank's delayed reports to draw in Indian regulator

The local unit of Experian Plc told RBI in July that HDFC Bank has been late in providing details of its loans

Gold demand jumps as lockdowns ease, imports rebound by 25% in July

Overseas purchases rose to 25.5 tonnes in July from 20.4 tonnes a year earlier and were almost double the amount shipped in the previous month

Jeff Bezos sells 1 mn Amazon shares worth $3.1 bn after fortune surges

The disposals, disclosed Wednesday in Securities and Exchange Commission filings, adds to a $4.1 billion sale earlier this year

A shattered Beirut leaves Lebanese asking if they have a future

Lebanon is enduring its deepest political and financial crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990

Twitter, Facebook block Trump video, citing Covid-19 misinformation

The Trump re-election campaign's Twitter account, @TeamTrump, was briefly banned from sending new tweets after it posted a clip of an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News

Goldman Sachs comes up with Tinder for mergers in a social-distanced world

After all, this weekend's flurry of deal activity shows that not even the coronavirus can stifle M&A demand for long

Donald Trump tests China's red line on Taiwan using Beijing's playbook

While Trump soon backpedaled, displaying an inconsistency that has become a hallmark of his presidency, it showed China that relations with the U.S. were changing quickly

US TikTok ban: Why Facebook, Google should be worried by Trump's moves

The decision opens a Pandora's Box that digital platforms might one day wish had been kept closed

RBI's silence on bond purchases may have left traders disenchanted

The RBI held the repurchase rate at 4 per cent, as it chose to wait for inflation to cool before adding to steps aimed at supporting a fragile economy

As UK eases lockdown, services activity expands at fastest pace in 5 years

IHS Markit's Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 56.5 last month, up from 47.1 in June

Tencent driving talks to create $10 billion streaming giant in China

The Chinese social media titan -- which owns a 37 per cent stake in Huya and 38 per cent of DouYu -- has been discussing such a merger with the duo over the past few months

Probe into Google-Fitbit $2.1 bn deal shows EU wising up to data value

The EU authority will investigate how Google could bolster its 'data advantage' in online advertising with information it collects from Fitbit fitness

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways faces crunch vote in 3 weeks

Meetings of four creditor groups will be held on August 25 after the company began a legal process in the UK seeking to stop any holdouts from blocking the package

China's growing assertiveness has become a concern for its partners, too

Russia doesn't feel threatened itself, because right now China can ill-afford to alienate a neighbour that's an important military and resource power in its own right

McDonald's revenue falls 30% as Covid-19 lockdown limits operations

Restaurants across the world were shut because of the pandemic, limiting operati­ons to only drive-thru and delivery

Google's new subsea cable to link US, United Kingdom and Spain

The cable, named Grace Hopper after the computer scientist, will also connect to Spain, becoming the first Google fiber line to land there, the company said in a statement

MFs may witness first monthly net outflows in more than four years

The contraction in fund flows are a cautionary tale for stock market that's looked past some dire economic projections and climbing virus numbers to jump more than 40% from its March low