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Covid-19 pandemic may trigger worst downturn since Great Depression: UN

Both middle-income countries, with 75 per cent of the world's population and 62 per cent of the world's poor, are also highly vulnerable to a debt crisis, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

RBI's measures welcome, but govt has to bail out small companies: India Inc

Economy and industry need a heavy dose of liquidity infusion, say CEO after central bank announces new measures to help economy.

26 Navy personnel in Western Naval Command test positive for coronavirus

The Indian Navy continues to actively support the national effort in the fight against Covid-19

Covid-19: Petrol pumps won't sell you fuel if you are not wearing a mask

Worried about the safety of their staffers, more than 58,000 fuel retail outlets across India have decided to decline refills for those customers who are not ready to wear masks

Covid-19: Latin American nations scrap duties on Indian respiratory devices

The Brazilian government published a resolution eliminating import taxes on 141 medical products and hospital equipment

Covid-19 to further paralyse cash flow, coal supply chain of power units

Power demand continues to fall while surplus coal lies unused at their sites; non-pithead units impacted most

Covid-19: Global economic contraction in H1 of 2020 inevitable, says IMF

The IMF managing director said the immediate priority was to minimise the pandemic's human toll and economic disruption

IMF, World Bank release funds to aid Covid-19 battle: These nations benefit

More than 2.14 million people in more than 210 countries and territories have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally, and as many as 143,744 have died so far

Covid-19: Delhi reports 67 cases in a day; Madhya Pradesh tally tops 1,000

Here is a look at the number of coronavirus cases and deaths reported across the nation on Friday

Rs 5,575-cr indirect tax refunds processed since March 30, says CBIC

Earlier, the tax body had initiated a measure to help GST return filers by facilitating early refund of input tax credit

Coronavirus LIVE: India cases rise to 14, 378; US tally at 710,000

Coronavirus latest update: Confirmed covid-19 cases in India have reached 14,378, and deaths 486. Catch Coronavirus LIVE updates at Business Standard

Covid-19: At Rs 43.5 trn by March, Indian households' debt at record high

Indian households had debts worth nearly Rs 43.5 trillion at the end of March this year, up from Rs 6.6 trillion at the end of March 2008 and Rs 19.3 trillion five years ago at the end of FY15

Coronavirus pandemic: Donald Trump announces $19-billion relief for farmers

The food assistance programme will provide $16 billion in direct support based on actual losses to agricultural producers

Lockdown: Students can watch Netflix documentaries, series free on YouTube

Netflix has so far made 10 of its documentaries and series available for free on YouTube. These include critically acclaimed 'Our Planet' and 'Babies'

Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 outbreak, re-building police brand, and more

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

We aren't dying in droves as some predicted, but can you handle this truth?

India isn't going through a picnic. But our drains aren't filled with bodies, hospitals haven't run out of beds, crematoriums and graveyards not out of wood or space

India coronavirus dispatch: Can aviation industry recover from pandemic?

From knowledge sharing in the time of Covid-19, to quarantine guidelines for healthcare workers, and why your risk of getting sick could lie in your genes - read these and more in today's dispatch

World coronavirus dispatch: China's GDP contraction, Argentina's debt woes

From deliberations in the US and some of the European countries on reopening their economies to China's worst quarterly economic performance since 1992 - read these and more in today's dispatch

Covid-19 Factoid: Surge in Iran's critical cases, and UK's grim milestone

While the UK has become the sixth country in the world to have more than 100,000 positive coronavirus cases, the share of critical cases in Iran's total is unusually high

People have reduced buying frenzy: Spencer's Retail's Shashwat Goenka

Supply chain for essential items has been ensured in the country, says Shashwat Goenka, sector head for FMCG & Retail at Spencer's Retail.