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Post-coronavirus India: Exporters must seek bigger global share, says Goyal

Goyal asks exporters to "identify their strengths, potentials and competitive advantages in specific sectors, and focus on harnessing them in the world markets

Covid-19 and women@work

Poor access to economic opportunity is reflected potently in India's famously poor female labour force participation rates

Stricter lockdown in the north pulls summer consumer sales down further

Many manufacturers from the region, which contributes 40% to the consumer goods market, have had to redraw their yearly targets

GST rates and the medical devices industry

Let us use the GST rate regime to build up a strong domestic industry in sectors like pharmaceuticals and medical devices that can play to our strengths in labour-intensive production

Coping with the lockdown

Given the scale of demand contraction, we need a fiscal package of at least 3-4 per cent of GDP

Move petroleum to GST: The time is now

The health crisis is a moment of reckoning and an opportune time to revisit GST policy-design

Covid-19: Electronics manufacturers in a fix over resuming operations

From satisfying the concerned local and state-level authorities to finalisng the new set of standard operating procedures, all manufacturers are facing a bumpy road before they can resume operations

Focus on gradual resumption

Govt should consider the suggestions made by DPIIT

Covid-19 lockdown: DPIIT flags a long list of industries that need to open

DPIIT's letter batted for the reopening of manufacturing units in a long list of sectors

What to prioritise? Challenges galore for business leaders post lockdown

What will be the priorities for business leaders as and when employees come back to work?

Covid-19: Tyre companies face rising inventories, plan production cuts

The lifting of tyre stock from factories and transporting the same to auto manufacturers came to a grinding halt after the government announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown

Top headlines: Debt schemes see worst outflow, govt to map migrants

Business Standard brings you top headlines of the day

Can't miss peak April-June season due to coronavirus: Exporters to Centre

National-level exporters' bodies representing engineering goods, apparel, and electronics, among others, have written to the commerce department over the past two days

Firms weigh measures, protocols to adapt to post-coronavirus world

Sanitisation, social distancing top of the agenda as shop floors get ready to open again

Manufacturing industry gears up for life after coronavirus lockdown

Industry hopes for return of labour, smoothening of supply chain, lowering of inventory

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

Covid-19 equipment: Tamil Nadu offers special incentives for manufacturers

30% Capital subsidy capped at Rs 20 cr on investment made; Manufacturers to commence production before July 31

Top headlines: Govt's income support plan, manufacturing halts, and more

From e-commerce firms set to resume work amid Covid-19to govt asking car manufacturers to explore ventilator production, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

GDP growth slows to nearly 7-year low of 4.7% in Q3 on weak manufacturing

Interestingly, the GDP estimates for FY19 have been revised downwards significantly, pushing up quarterly growth estimates for the current financial year

India's GDP growth at 4.7% in Dec quarter, marginal improvement over Q2

FY20 growth projections retained at 5% in the second advance estimates. The official Q3 GDP data showed that the impact of a global slowdown and weak manufacturing continued to weigh on the economy