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Armed forces told to take optimisation measures amid Covid-19 crisis

Officers, however, fear this will sharply impair the military's equipment and functioning

Banks want IBC proceedings in all pending cases to be suspended for 2 years

Fall in valuation, lack of demand cited as reasons

The rise of DMart's Radhakishan Damani, who got richer during lockdown

Educated in Mumbai, where his father worked on Dalal Street, Damani dropped out of college after studying commerce for a year.

Lockdown 2.0: India Inc lends help to dealers amid coronavirus crisis

Incentive hikes, credit period extension among steps taken to support them during corona crisis

Franklin Templeton fiasco puts MF industry in damage-control mode

Fund houses say a committed liquidity line from RBI can ease pressure

Covid impact: Domestic sugar consumption likely to dip 2 million tonnes

According to estimates, domestic institutional sales account for 65-70 per cent of the total sugar sales with the remaining emerging from the household segment

Coronavirus outbreak: Donald Trump suggests 'injecting disinfectants'

Launching a study conducted by his department, Homeland Security for Science and Tech under Secretary Bill Bryan said the coronavirus dies at a much more rapid pace when exposed to sunlight, humidity

Covid-19: Panic in Azadpur mandi after death; officials say ops to continue

In the last few days, some traders threatened to suspend their operations following the death of a trader due to Covid-19 and after rumours apread that two more mandi workers had got infected.

Here's why NBFC stocks may turn into a heap of trouble for investors

NBFCs may be forced to dig into their cash reserves if systemic liquidity support dries up

Indices fall nearly 2% over trouble at Franklin MF, Covid-19 concerns

The Sensex ended 536 points or 1.7% lower at 31,327, while the Nifty dropped 1.7% or 160 points to close at 9,154 on Friday

Adityanath asks officials to bring home UP workers stuck in states

Various department heads have been given a week's time to submit their 'concrete roadmaps' to the government for implementation

Coronavirus spread: Aarogya Setu tops charts with 75 million downloads

Contact-tracing apps to track the spread of Covid-19 have been developed in at least 23 countries, according to research firm Top10VPN.

Supreme court quashes judgments by high courts on area-based exemption

Rules refunds should be limited to actual manufacturing or value addition

Link motor third-party obligation to number of uninsured vehicles: Irdai

Currently, the motor third party obligation is based on the amount of premiums an insurer collects on any given year out of motor third party business.

Finance panel's advisory council bats for support to small players, NBFCs

The Commission will wait for gross domestic product (GDP) data in the January-March and April-June quarters before finalising its reports to the government for 2021-22 to 2025-26

$4.2 bn Boeing-Embraer deal hits new roadblock as deadline looms: Report

Embraer said this week it was in talks with Boeing to extend the April 24 deadline for closing the deal and that there were no assurances about whether or when it would close

India for the World

All governments must have their feet put to the fire regularly but do it fairly and use the same yardstick for India that you would use for other countries

The Yossarian method

While calls for lifting the lockdown are perfectly logical, they lead to the wrong solution

Why India needs random Covid tests

All the data we have thus far garnered about the pandemic indicates that it throws up massive numbers of asymptomatic cases

Shekhar Gupta: The Centre is back

Four decades of federal evolution made India more secure but coronavirus is reversing that. Modi's central govt has tasted power again and is unlikely to give it up