Uber Essentials, for which approvals are being sought from state governments, will be extended to other cities early this week once approved, said Pradeep Parameswaran, President of Uber India, and South Asia.

Sensing a long-term lull in overseas travel, the Ministry of Tourism launched ‘Dekho Apna Desh’, a webinar series hosted by experts who will share key nuggets and information on destinations like Varanasi, Pondicherry, Ladakh, Kolkata and Lucknow.

Lockdown has pushed hotel business in tourism hotspot Sikkim to the brink where investors from Bengal and other states are the first tire victims. Equal sufferer is over 70% of Sikkim's population dependent on hospitality industry that generates around Rs 1.5 k croer business there in a year.

A move to reduce active offline banking in the country resulted in the extreme opposite, at least in the short term.

Given the ingenuity of virtual thieves, the bug zappers of the virtual world are counting on there always being a need for their services.

Bhavik Vasa, chief growth officer of ItzCash, contends the market opportunity is huge as 85% of the population is still dealing with cash.

Thanks to the increasing penetration of smartphones India is transitioning from a 'mobile first' to 'mobile only' country.

Management at Faasos are not people from food industry but mostly entrepreneurs who wanted to build something different on their own, says Revant Bhate.

The team was super capable in their verticals, even though they hadn't previously worked in a startup environment, says Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

Ambani visited the two districts and took a survey of the worst-affected areas to assess first-hand the primary and immediate requirements of the victims

Gross debt at Indian Oil, the nation’s largest refiner and fossil fuel retailer, has risen from ₹86,400 crore at the beginning of 2019-20 to ₹1,16,000 crore at the start of 2020-21. About 50% jump in debt in the January-March quarter came following the weakening of demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic, dividend outflow and delay in fuel subsidy transfer by the government.

The Gautam Adani-led utility firm that sells piped natural gas (PNG) to households and compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles hopes to make up for the lost time on new projects once the lockdown is over and is sticking to its capital expenditure plan of Rs 1,500 crore for the current fiscal, its CEO Suresh Manglani has said.

Auditors and company executives told that higher provisioning may be necessary as the pandemic-induced sharp dip would have increased difficulties for these businesses already hit by the ongoing slowdown. In many cases, auditors have asked companies to provide up to 50%.

In addition to the Rs 1,600 crore liquidity position, the company said it has undrawn sanctions of Rs 900 crore as on March 31, 2020. The Gurugram-headquartered micro lender also said that it will offer moratorium to all the existing borrowers across India.

State Innovation & Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam, is working on a Strategy Paper for the state government by engaging Ernst & Young (EY) on tea industry. Tea industry has suffered immensely during the lockdown .

Even though much of the stubble of wheat is used as animal fodder but farmers resort to open field burning to get rid of the leftover stalk. Around 11400 incidents of open field burning were recorded as per satellite imagery in Punjab and 7500 in Haryana last year post kharif harvest.

Exports have come to a standstill as most meat units ran out of existing stocks early this month and animal markets have been shut for weeks. Animal husbandry minister of Uttar Pradesh, Lakshmi Narayan Chaudhari, said curbs will slowly be lifted, which should cheer famers and exporters in the state that accounts nearly 70% of buffalo meat export from India.

Highlighting that network capacity and higher bandwidth services have proved to be crucial, not only during the pandemic itself, but also for e-commerce and economic inclusion in general, it said in an information note: “What can WTO members do to improve communications networks and services?”

India’s concern is real because China has been involved in dumping of steel in the past and the same allegation has been made by other countries when it comes to automobiles and electronics. Given China’s superior economic position today amidst good valuations from an investors’ standpoint, leveraging the same makes business sense.

Rice exports to Bangladesh through West Bengal will likely begin soon as the ministry of home affairs (MHA) has taken a tough stand against the state government for not allowing border trade with India's eastern neighbour.

Most debt mutual fund categories have witnessed outflows in the last month, data shows.

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While tennis is a lucrative sport for those at the top -- the 2020 Australian Open singles champions each took home A$4.12 million ($2.52 million) -- those in the lower echelons often struggle to make ends meet.

The Belarusian league is filling the void for foreign fans starved of football at home, by inviting fans from around the world to buy virtual tickets online.

CK Vineeth joins COVID-19 helpline centre in Kerala

The tennis legend has dropped a series of photographs on her Instagram page that brings 'message of hope and optimism'.

Daybell said that after a difficult few months a sense of normality was returning to the COVID-19 ward in the north London hospital where he works.

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