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IndiGo reinstates pay cuts, introduces leave without pay for senior staff

IndiGo had announced pay cuts for its senior employees on March 19. However, it rolled back the decision on April 23




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Carlyle Group to buy 74% in SeQuent Scientific for over Rs 1,500 crore

The transaction is being done through an equity purchase stake that values each share at Rs 86.




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Vista Equity Partners to invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio Platforms

Deal part of RIL plan to unlock 19% stake in Jio to become debt-free




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Lockdown 3.0: Pharma hubs take extra precaution to tame Covid-19 outbreak

Recently, while 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals facility in Ahmedabad tested positive for Covid-19, one person at Sun Pharma's Halol plant tested positive.




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MSME sector's bad loan ratio at 12.5% as of January, shows report

NPA level of public sector banks has increased from 18 per cent in December 2018 to 19 per cent in December 2019




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Covid-19 impact: SBI Cards' pre-tax profit dips 71% to Rs 112 cr in Q4 FY20

Had it not been for Covid-19 impact, the company would have reported a sharp 80 per cent year-on-year jump in its pre-tax profit to Rs 692 core.




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Saudi, US companies also eyeing stakes in Reliance's Jio Platforms

The deal could be completed as soon as this month, though no agreement has been finalised and plans may change




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How India is ensuring uninterrupted supply of milk during Covid-19 lockdown

The cooperative model in India went out of the way to protect milk producers




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Vizag plant stabilised, teams assisting govt to assess damage: L G Polymers

Apart from the 12 casualties on Thursday, the leakage had hundreds of people living closer to the plant in Visakhapatnam under medical emergency




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Covid-19 impact: Facebook employees to work from home till 2020 end

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021




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ICICI Bank's standalone net profit rises 26% to Rs 1221 cr in Q4FY20

Total income during the quarter under review increased to Rs 23,443.66 crore, from Rs 20,913.82 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal




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ICICI Bank pre-tax profit up 82% in Q4; provides heavily for Covid-19

Excluding covid-19 related provisions, the profit after tax of the bank would have been Rs 3,260 crore




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Albert Uderzo, 92, co-creator of French comic series Asterix, dies

Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house




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When you can't attend a performance, it comes to you: The show goes online

As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means




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So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge




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How volunteers are matching physical distancing with social solidarity

Within 24 hours of setting up a social media group and helpline called Caremongers India on March 20, Nagaraj had 150 volunteers from across India




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The wash brigade: Inculcating a simple habit to fight coronavirus pandemic

As the world population feverishly washes hands, an initiative by a small NGO in Uttar Pradesh seems prescient




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How Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, has been rendered somnolent

Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down. But this time the city has curled up




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In this coronavirus lockdown, India feels like the calm before the storm

Strong social networks got India through the calamity of demonetisation. By not giving migrant workers enough time to get home, the govt has likely deprived them of this




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Here's looking at you, grid

It is in the modern era that this book loses its lapidary elegance




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The travails of those who ensure food reaches our tables in Covid-19 times

A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.




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As riders go home amid lockdown, queue for e-grocery orders get longer

Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.




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Ideas on how to recalibrate celebrations in the time of isolation

The strangeness brought about by a work-from-home situation means the lines between the personal and professional blur too easily.




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Tillotama Shome on 20 years in the charmed world of independent cinema

While the pandemic disrupts the India release of Sir, actor Tillotama Shome talks to Ranjita Ganesan about her twenty years in the charmed world of independent cinema




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Free-for-all vs copyright

Last week, Internet Archive, a nonprofit group, announced that it would drop the access restrictions for its scanned books to make them widely available to readers during the coronavirus outbreak.




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Finding mask a daunting task amid coronavirus. Should you make your own?

While we don't have a lot of research on the effectiveness of homemade masks in preventing the spread of infection, scientists who study airborne diseases can offer some guidance.




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The mind of American conservatism

The volume's focus is confined to the 20th century, with its earliest selection from 1907




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Frames per Second: The long walk home

The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown




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Age of anxiety: Mental health is the next looming crisis in Covid-19 times

It needs swift, sensible attention, writes Nikita Puri




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In caring company: Firms make working from home stress free and fun

Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus.




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Hong Kong's success against Covid-19: A tutorial for India and the world

The small city state has benefited from lessons learned after it was the epicentre of the SARS epidemic, keeping infections to less than 1,000, writes Rahul Jacob




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How the police are enforcing the lockdown with iron fist and velvet glove

The coronavirus crisis has presented police across Indian states an opportunity to enhance their presence and impact on social media.




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How isolation and WFH have deepened our engagement with work and people

Covid-19 and its aftermath are an opportunity to significantly reorient the way we approach work and leisure - and, by extension, life itself.




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How a bunch of outfits are still getting organic produce to your doorstep

Ritwik Sharma on the outfits that are bringing organic farm produce to your doorstep during the lockdown




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Art sales haven't been entirely dampened, they're just moving online

Overseas and here, auction houses are capitalising on the fact that collectors are stuck at home - and are online.




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Possibilities of escaping your room amid lockdown are endless. Read books

Who wants to read about disease, or be reminded of one's mortality, during a pandemic?




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Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels

It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.




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Instagram's inside story

No Filter has a deceptively simple goal: 'To bring you the definitive inside story of Instagram'




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From Saigon to the suburbs

Sigh, Gone is Tran's first book, a recollection of his childhood growing up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, after his family's escape from Saigon right before the fall in 1975, when he was a baby.




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Donald Trump's 'deep state'

Much of the book charts the history of congressional oversight over the CIA and the FBI, beginning, in 1975, with the committee chaired by Senator Frank Church




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Obituary: Economist and BS Columnist Deepak Lal passes away at 80

Classicism and liberalism were two values that defined the man




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Deepak Lal: Profound philosopher in all travails & joys of life and living

Mani Shankar Aiyar remembers economist Deepak Lal, who remained for 65 years one of his closest friends, as a deeply empathetic confidante and a mentor on everything 'civilised'




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For a conservative, Deepak Lal saw deep strengths in India's civil society

Despite his clarity of thought, controversial but well-researched views, fierce political convictions and global reputation and fame, Lal was at heart a shy man, write Suman Bery




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The limits of 'realism'

Barry Gewen tackles the contradic­tions, and offers absolution, in this book, a timely and acute defence of the great realist's actions, values and beliefs




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What's the human cost of Covid-19?

Ask a daughter who lost her father and has to grieve in isolation. Why? Because the pandemic upended grief as we know it




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Making an unloved car cool again with death-defying driving skill

Stunt driver Ken Block's rabid following might take a cue from his next automotive muse, Ford's Fox-Body Mustang, writes Hannah Elliot




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Microelectronics failure analysis: desk reference / edited by Tejinder Gandhi

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Nuclear energy: a professional assessment / the Watt Committee on Energy

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Mathematical models and algorithms for power system optimization: modelling technology for practical engineering problems / Mingtian Fan, Zuping Zhang, Chengmin Wang

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Electric motors and drives: fundamentals, types and applications / Austin Hughes, Bill Drury

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