Covid-19 shut down schools and cancelled exams but learning didn’t stop for students of Kerala’s government schools, thanks to teachers who tapped technology. Jinoy Jose P reports

The merger with Capital First will drive home three years of growth at one go to IDFC Bank: Rajiv Lall

For nearly two decades, Bezos was adamant that the company should largely stay out of the political limelight and not make a stir in local communities. It also had a bare-bones lobbying operation

The self-described entrepreneur had surprised all by joining Nirav Modi four years ago

Sorrell's exit would have been a big deal at any point, but the manner of his departure has amplified the attention

Online retailers such as Myntra and Tjori have their consumer engagement teams working on to engage their customers till the time the lockdown eases. Others such as fashion brand Anita Dongre are brainstorming changes in consumer behaviour and how to keep them engaged online till the time stores become fully operational.

Senco Gold & Diamonds is offering a discount on the gold rate. Sankar Sen, CMD of the Kolkata-based company, said the special Akshay Tritiya offer entails giving a discount of Rs 400 per gram on the gold rate during the offer period that runs from April 22-27.

Senco Gold & Diamonds is offering a discount on the gold rate. Sankar Sen, CMD of the Kolkata-based company, said the special Akshay Tritiya offer entails giving a discount of Rs 400 per gram on the gold rate during the offer period that runs from April 22-27.

Noted jewellery retailer Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers expects to take a hit in sales for the next five months due to the ongoing lockdown and said it is delaying new design launches.

"As we started getting a lot of enquires from our regular customers, we have started taking Akshay Tritiya bookings online from 21st April onwards on our e-commerce platforms. The same will be delivered to the customers post lockdown ends," Aditya Pethe, director, WHP Jewellers said.

Mr. Ajoy Chawla, CEO, Jewellery Division at Titan Company Limited said, "All 328 Tanishq stores remain shut this year and hence it would be unfair to compare numbers with last year. But the overall customer response to tanishq.co.in from key metros and even with tier-2 and tier-3 towns has been extremely encouraging.

Sunil Sethi has more than three decades of multi-category experience in the fast-moving consumer goods industry with expertise in sales, marketing, strategy and general management across international markets, according to a release.

India’s gross import of rough diamonds had declined by 13.43% to $12.39 billion between April 2019 and February 2020 from a year earlier.

Diamond trade has come to a halt because of the lockdown. Many workers have also left.

International brands have begun sharing prototypes of fashion masks in cotton and blends with Indian suppliers who are awaiting a nod from the Centre to export non-surgical masks.

Several apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic act when Covid-19 struck but now it is apparent that the pandemic is set to alter lifestyles for at least some time to come.

According to Central Silk Board statistics, West Bengal and Assam contribute around 6.5 thousand Metric Ton (MT)silk to India's total annual output of over 35,000MT. Over 80% of that is consumed in domestic market. As estimated, over 15 lakh workers are involved in ground level silk activities in these two states.

Several apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic act when Covid-19 struck but now it is apparent that the pandemic is set to alter lifestyles for at least some time to come.

The company will continue to strictly comply with all government rules while reopening and running operations at the store. The company plans to reopen first 50 stores by 10th May, 2020.

The brand has started operating its 11 stores in these four sates after getting clearance from the government. The brand will continue to follow the safety instructions suggested by Government authorities across all locations. Senco Gold and Diamonds plans to start operations across all locations in a phased manner following clearance by the concerned government authorities.

Easing the Reserve Bank of India regulation on put options would be a quick hack to solve a temporary problem. What needs to be fixed is the fundamental design of the Foreign Exchange Management Act

Their pricing and hedging is arguably one of the most complex subjects in the theory and models of financial economics

Reducing policy rates is not enough. The key is to ensure banks lend to credit-constrained borrowers

As the deputy governor, Urjit R Patel's biggest contribution has changed the way monetary policy is framed in India. He chaired the experts group that put in place the framework of the monetary policy committee

Three things need Patel's attention: cleaning up bank balance sheets, evaluating robustness of CPI and pushing for digitisation in financial services

Infrastructure and inflation targeting are expected to be top priorities for the new Reserve Bank of India governor

It is just one element of the new architecture of macroeconomic policy. Much more is required to shore up the economy

Income inequality and reduced growth apart, it leads to volatile exchange rate, which hampers trade and therefore growth

There should be greater transparency about a central bank's role in regulating banks in India and elsewhere

Recommendations about foreign investment are belated but welcome. The regulator must now complement them with a clean-up of the complex regulatory edifice that is vulnerable to frequent ad-hoc changes

While banks are better capitalised than they were five years back, they could face a shortage of capital, and many have failed the stress tests standard

Despite leadership vacuum, state-run banks are slow in lateral recruitments

Central banks can set rates low enough to stimulate an economy in recession, and raise them once a recovery gets underway

Central bankers have of course been known to help incumbents before elections, by allowing inflation to drift up and keep employment booming

Merger is about the only solution that the government seems to be capable of thinking up in seeking to get the PSBs into some degree of health

So, the key question is has the rate-cutting cycle come to an end in India. We think so

The rupee has lost ground since pre-Budget, against three major hard currencies (yen, dollar and euro). The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan maintained status quo in recent policy meetings

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Call for Code is a global initiative for developers to solve pressing global problems with sustainable software solutions. While the focus of this year's competition was on addressing climate change, IBM decided to add tech solutions for addressing the COVID-19 crisis as well.

Rejecting charges by the opposition that the Aarogya Setu application breaches privacy, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asserted that the platform is "absolutely robust, safe and secure" in terms of privacy protection and data security.

The health ministry has urged the citizens to download the mobile application, saying it will enable them to assess the risk of catching the novel coronavirus infection which has claimed 1,694 lives and infected 49,391 people across the country so far.

"There has been no sort of hacking or breach of privacy in the Aarogya Setu. The allegations are based on amateur attempts by changing location & data correlation to portray it as hacking. The app would have shown similar data to anyone at a particular location," senior government officials said.

The Noida administration, on May 3, issued an order under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, mandating those residing or entering Noida to install Aarogya Setu, failing which they would be criminally prosecuted under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.

Brent Harris, Facebook’s director of governance and global affairs had stated in January that the company has been laying the groundwork for a new independent organisation, the Oversight Board, to review cases and make binding content decisions.

The Aarogya Setu app, which has been downloaded by around 90 million people, has been made mandatory for government as well as private sector employees and for people residing in containment zones – a localised area that has reported a positive case of Covid-19 infection.

The board, which will have its own website, is housed under a trust, which the social media giant says is independent of Facebook and is endowed with $130 million.

Under the initiative, Amazon will deliver orders to a designated delivery point in the vicinity of the containment zone, from where volunteers will further deliver the packages to customers' doorstep, the company said in a statement.

India had 504 million active internet users – who logged onto the Web at least once in the last one month – at the end of November 2019, according to a recent report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

According to Cyble, the database including usernames, emails and passwords was up for sale on May 3 for $2,000.

IIF urged that the hearing should specially involve medical health professionals, academics from IITs and digital rights and public policy experts to provide inputs.