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China's Covid-19 vaccine shows promising results in early trials: Report

The trial was conducted by researchers at several laboratories and included 108 participants aged 18-60

Defence budget may be slashed by 40%, may save Centre Rs 80,000 crore

Addressing an audience of defence analysts in Delhi, the MoD official confirmed reports that the government had ordered the military to limit its first quarter

Covid-19 crisis: Delhi-Patna most booked as flights prepare to resume ops

MakeMyTrip and a host of other companies in the travel and hospitality industry took a "safety pledge" to maintain high hygiene standards, and follow new protocols to ensure safety and sanitisation

Covid-19 impact: DRDO develops devices to sanitise phones, currency notes

Research Centre Imarat (RCI), a part of Defence Research Development Organisation, developed the Defence Research Ultraviolet Sanitiser

FM hikes FDI in defence production to 74%; ban on imports of some weapons

Items banned for imports can only be purchased from within the country, Sitharaman said

Dear Office, your services are terminated

The demise of the office has been foretold yet again. But there's a lot of fight left in the old lady.

Farm start-up Kamatan raises Rs 17.5 cr fresh equity during lockdown

UK-based Global Innovation Fund and existing investor Elevar have infused capital, which will help Kamatan leverage its partnerships with farmer producer organisations

Poor, farm sector likely to be FM Nirmala Sitharaman's next focus

Some of the sectors which have been worst affected by the pandemic and the lockdown include hospitality, tourism, aviation, logistics, e-commerce, automobiles, manufacturing and others

Linking farm sector fortunes to unpredictable monsoon could be premature

More than normal rainfall, it is the distribution, spread and timeliness that will play a bigger role in improving the lot of farmers

Sonia launches Nyay scheme in C'garh, says farmers will become self-reliant

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi also lauded the Chhattisgarh government for launching the scheme at a time when the poor and farmers were facing hardships due to the coronavirus

Govt to fix domestic air fares for 3 months: Hardeep Singh Puri

For the Delhi-Mumbai route, the upper limit for flight fare would be Rs 10,000, said Hardeep Singh Puri at a press conference in Delhi

Richer in pandemic: Bezos, Musk among US billionaires whose net worth rose

The wealth surge of America's richest men happened during a period marred by the coronavirus crisis, when as many as 22 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits

Lockdown has served its purpose, cannot go on 'indefinitely': NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog member V K Paul said the doubling time of the cases had now improved significantly to 13.3 days from 3.4 days before the first lockdown

Best of BS Opinion: The PM-CM-DM structure, trade liberalisation, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Covid-19 Factoid: India's tests per 1 mn people half as much as Brazil's

Among Indian states, Bihar's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases is doubling at the fastest rate - just 4.1 days; Punjab is faring the best at a little more than 60 days

The power of 3: One disaster

PM, CM, DM are the three engines of India's governance. Their handling of the pandemic is going awry and exposed the downside of the three-storey dictatorship

Restaurants urge FM for support as job losses across 500,000 outlets loom

National Restaurant Association seeks tax credits, low-cost finance in a half-hour video conference call with Sitharaman

Oppn accuses Centre of usurping states' powers, demands revised stimulus

The opposition demanded that the Centre "consult state governments while allowing international/domestic flights".

Coal washing not mandatory for supply to thermal plants: Environment min

In a gazette notification on Thursday, the ministry amended the Environment Protection Act to drop mandatorily washing coal for supply to thermal power plants.

ESIC social security scheme sees around 821,000 enrolments in March

The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, retirement fund body EPFO and pension fund regulator PFRDA.