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Tata Motors offers easy financing option, special benefits for doctors

Under the package, features such as affordable EMIs with long-tenure loans and special offers for frontline warriors will be offered

Lockdown 3.0: Maruti to restart production at Manesar plant on May 12

Hyundai begins preparations; a few others restart operations

Covid-19: Maruti reopens 600 dealerships, introduces norms across outlets

The auto major said it has put in place a comprehensive standard operating procedure (SoP) across its sales outlets and reinforced digital infrastructure for vehicle purchase amid COVID-19 pandemic

How auto firms plan to woo customers, motivate sales staff post lockdown

As India eases some restrictions and many automobile dealerships restart operations after over a month of keeping their shutters down, what will be the primary target for brands?

Covid-19 may force auto cos into more automation on shop-floor: EY report

There will be several changes to existing working norms and guidelines that organisations will need to abide by in order to ensure safety at the workplace, says the report

Covid-19 impact on sectors: A two-quarter wait before growth picks up

The first of a three-part series highlights the issues faced by the auto, financial services, retail, and metals sectors

Automotive sector needs to finalise digitisation roadmap post Covid-19: EY

The sector, which had a production loss of about 750,000 units, currently has unsold inventory worth Rs 20,000 crore

US auto industry reopens amid concerns of second coronavirus wave

Ohio, another industrial state and key player in the US auto industry, reopened its manufacturing last week and said most retail shops could welcome customers back on Tuesday

Maruti starts to roll out cars from Manesar amid Covid-19 lockdown

The Maruti's Manesar plant has an inventory of over 20,000 ready vehicles. APL plans to load 650 cars on freight trains from Bawal in Haryana on Tuesday.

FM announces Rs 3 trn collateral free automatic loans for small businesses

Now a company can be MSME if the turnover is up to Rs 100 crore. Distinction between manufacturing and services MSMEs will be removed, she said

Fiat Chrysler in talks for $6.8 bn loan to tide over coronavirus crisis

If approved by the lender, the request will be reviewed by Italy's export credit agency SACE

Used car trade could rev up auto revival as consumer turns budget-conscious

Bookings, sales perk up for hatchbacks, cars between Rs 4 lakh and Rs 6 lakh

Investors look beyond drug makers as rush for Covid treatment hots up

A record 48 per cent of fund managers are overweight healthcare stocks, a Bank of America survey has shown

FM announces measures to make health infrastructure pandemic ready

Sithraman also spoke about encouraging research in healthcare and having a National Institutional Platform for One Health by the country's apex health research body Indian Council of Medical Research

Covid-19 crisis: Industry welcomes investments in health care sector

They also said the industry also needed support in view of the headwinds it faced due to Covid-19 pandemic

Harsh Vardhan set to be WHO Executive Board chairman, say officials

Vardhan would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan, currently the Chairman of the 34-member WHO Executive Board

ICMR's new advisory expands use of HCQ but cautions against false security

According to the revised advisory, the report of an in-vitro testing of HCQ for antiviral efficacy showed reduction of infectivity and log reduction in viral RNA copy of SARs-CoV2

Indians should be proud of 'safest app' Aarogya Setu, says MyGov CEO

There is no other app that anyone in India is using today that has greater privacy features than what Aarogya Setu has, said MyGov CEO Abhishek Singh

Zydus Cadila supplies 30,000 COVID KAVACH Elisa test kits to ICMR

The kits, to be used for antibody detection of Covid-19, have been manufactured in collaboration (via technology transfer) with ICMR-NIV of Pune for surveillance purposes

Ending quarantine for healthcare workers a 'non-scientific approach': AIIMS

Shortening quarantine duration and denying healthcare workers testing on day 5-7 after duty will be a deadly combination, may derail India's battle against pandemic, say AIIMS resident doctors