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Beyond virus: Setting course for a V-shaped recovery with right decisions

It's time for thoughtful decisions through 2020 and 2021, where the desired outcome is one where private investment in 2025 is superior to the value seen in 2011 in real terms

PM, President and MPs take 30% pay cut to help combat coronavirus

Suspension of MPLAD funds in FY21-22 to boost fund by Rs 8,000 cr

Over 25,000 Tablighis quarantined as rising cases keep India on tenterhooks

Since Sunday, 693 new positive cases have been registered, taking the tally to 4,281.

Covid-19 impact: Mukesh Ambani's net worth drops 28% to $48 bn in 2 months

LVMH Chief executive Bernard Arnault's wealth down by 28% to $77 billion

Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India amid coronavirus lockdown

Forum for IT Employees (FITE), a self-proclaimed union for IT employees, has alleged that the company has taken such steps in order to "compensate for business loss owing to the nationwide lockdown".

Coronavirus crisis to hit Indian, Chinese, Indonesian banks hard, says S&P

The credit cost, amounts set aside for bad and stressed loans, for the Indian banking system will rise to 2.8 per cent in 2020-21, from the previous estimate of 1.5 per cent, S&P said in a statement.

Emaar Properties slashes salaries by up to 50% amid coronavirus pandemic

The company has announced salary cut of 50 per cent for the senior management, 40 per cent for middle management and 30 per cent for junior employees.

Covid-19: PepsiCo commits to 25,000 testing kits, over 5 mn meals to India

Further, PepsiCo India has partnered with non-profit organisation Foundation of Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) for providing 25,000 Covid-19 testing kits.

Coronavirus scare at Coal India's top entity; 50 employees quarantined

The employees had gathered to perform a religious event on Friday

The bright side of lockdown

The pandemic spreading around the world is calling on us to suppress our profoundly human and evolutionarily hard-wired impulses

Exuberant irrationality

Discourage non-scientific ideas of fighting Covid-19

Better late than never

Lockdown should be lifted with care

Global stocks jump on coronavirus slowdown hopes; oil slips on supply fears

Equity investors took solace as the death toll from the coronavirus slowed across major European nations including France and Italy

Contraction in Indian economy due to Covid-19 may be short-lived: UBS

"The potential slowdown of the economy will be determined by the duration of the lockdown, and the economic policy choices taken to ensure a safe recovery," said Tanvee Gupta Jain

Parliamentarians partner NGOs, firms to strengthen fight against Covid-19

The action group will be known as Parliamentarians with Innovators for India (PIIndia.org), which aims to spur innovators to solve challenges in areas such as public health, economy, and livelihood.

Covid-19: Sebi curtails cut-off timings for mutual funds from 3 pm to 1 pm

Equity scheme investors will have to invest before 1 pm to get same day's net asset value

Covid:19: With call centers shut, airports keep fliers busy on social media

Due to the suspension, passengers who had already booked their tickets to flights scheduled for this period have taken to social media platforms for their inquiries

Railway deal, coronavirus' disruption of global trade to weigh on Concor

While valuations are attractive, disruption will keep volumes muted

Most free subscribers of music OTT apps ready to try paid models: report

62% of respondents willing to pay Rs 25 a month as subscription fee; no ads, content downloads, offline browsing key drivers for the switch

With privacy concerns looming, Zoom app yet to appear on Indian radar

On Friday, Canada-based independent research organisation Citizen Lab found that Chinese servers were being used to distribute encryption and decryption keys for video conferences on Zoom