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WHO to develop coronavirus app for self-assessment; likely to add contact tracing features

The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to launch a new coronavirus app to enable people from under-resourced countries to self-assess their s




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Naval ship carrying 700 Indians stranded in Maldives to arrive on May 10

This is the Indian Navy’s first massive evacuation exercise during the Covid-19 lockdown.




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Trump administration working to temporarily ban work-based visas: Report

The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well




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Big Story | Has Covid-19 made matters worse for road construction companies?

Road construction companies expected a smooth road in 2020, but the coronavirus-induced lockdown has thrown fresh challenges their way. So, what lies ahead for the companies?




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Concor re-starts direct service linking Hyderabad terminal with PSA’s Chennai

Rail rises to the occasion as trucks were off roads due to lockdown




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Yogi Adityanath reviews Covid-19 situation in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath chaired a high-level meeting of State government officials at his residence in Lucknow, to review the si




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TN Govt forms high-level panel under C Rangarajan to assess Covid-19 impact

Tamil Nadu has constituted a high-level committee under the Chairmanship of former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, C Rangarajan, to advise the gove




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‘Europe needs a break’: EU plans to restart travel and tourism despite coronavirus threat

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to s




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DDoS attacks surge on educational, civic bodies websites

As people confine themselves to their homes in the lockdown, hackers have increased focus on the targets that they can profit on.Cyber security expert




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CBSE Board exam evaluation to be done at home by teachers

The evaluation for class 10, 12 Board exams will be done by teachers at their homes and 3,000 schools have been identified as exam centres to deliver




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Top multinationals from HUL to Apple brace for rising online sales post Covid-19

LG, Samsung, Vivo and Xiaomi are also rolling out hyperlocal sales platforms that will connect their offline stores to consumers searching products online so that the outlet nearest to the consumer can deliver the order, industry executives said.




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E-commerce firms seek clarity on equalisation levy

They also suggested that the levy should not be imposed on services or goods that are executed online but delivered offline – for instance, online hotel bookings, air ticketing and even heavily regulated financial services – besides seeking a clear definition of what comprises online sale of goods, services and the digital or electronic platform.




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Lockdown 3.0: People turn to e-commerce for non-essential items; staff crunch may delay deliveries

From laptops to apparels, people are logging on to e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Paytm Mall and Snapdeal to place orders for non-essential items, but lack of adequate manpower amid the lockdown could delay deliveries.




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COVID impact: Millions of mom and pop store could go out of business, says retail body

Lockdown could see at least 20% of Indian retailers collapse or wind up their business in next few months. “Ever since the lockdown was imposed on 24th March, the Indian retail sector has lost a gigantic sum of approximately Rs 5.50 lakh crore in this period and is likely to witness at least 20% of Indian retailers collapse and wind up their businesses in the next few months,” CAIT said.




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Non essential e-commerce in the red even in green & orange zones

Ecommerce leaders including Amazon and Flipkart have been able to recover only one-fifth of their pre-Covid-19 demand even after they opened up sales of non-essentials across smaller towns and cities which fall under the Green and Orange zones, as per analysts and industry insiders.




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Mall operators hurting, but divided over rental waivers

Large operators of malls such as Xander-backed Virtuous Retail, Select Group, Phoenix Group and Blackstone-backed Nexus have not waived rentals for their tenants.




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CAIT flags traders' inability to pay full salary for April, seeks Goyal's intervention

"If such payments are made, the business of the traders will fall like anything and in absence of any inflow of money, such payments will be disastrous for the retail trade of the country and in turn will badly affect the economy," CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in the letter to Goyal.




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Grooming products flying off E-commerce shelves

Demand for razors, epilators, trimmers and hair colour soars on ecomm platforms during the lockdown




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Apparel, jewellery, electronic retailers to roll out store-on-wheels; launches virtual tour of stores

“The idea of store-on-wheels is that customers should not feel suffocated that they can’t go out and shop, and feel the same pleasure right at their doorsteps,” said Vishnu Prasad, managing director of Future Lifestyle Fashions that owns Central and Brand Factory.




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Registrar (in-charge) to continue, says V-C

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Vegetable shops inspected

Collector T. G. Vinay and Madurai Corporation Commissioner S. Visakan inspected the temporary vegetable shops set up at Fatima College ground here on






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Bernard of Clairvaux and the shape of monastic thought

Title: Bernard of Clairvaux and the shape of monastic thought [electronic resource] : broken dreams / by M.B. Pranger.
Author: Pranger, M. B.
Imprint: Leiden New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.
Shelfmark: Brill
Subjects: Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. fast (OCoLC)fst01807771
Monastic and religious life -- Middle Ages. fast (OCoLC)fst01907091
600-1500 fast




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India isn't winning friends with its openly aggressive lurch to the right

The Indian government is behaving like Viktor Orban of Hungary or Donald Trump himself in its happy embrace of the global right.




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India has to play its cards well in post-coronavirus world

A new war of invisible type is now going on against mankind. Each country will have to select its side. But more importantly, develop its one offense and defensive frameworks




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Roles of financial institutions and credit guarantees in regional revitalization in Japan Nobuyoshi Yamori, Yoshihiro Asai, Masao Ojima, Kei Tomimura, Koji Yoneda

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Exploring tax policy to advance population health, health equity, and economic prosperity: proceedings of a workshop / Theresa M. Wizemann, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, He

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Effective portfolio management systems / Christopher F. Voehl, H. James Harrington, and William S. Ruggles

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Co-operative banking networks in Europe: models and performance / Federica Poli

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Index fund management: a practical guide to smart beta, factor investing, and risk premia / Fadi Zaher

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Grey and white hulls: an international analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus / Ian Bowers, Swee Lean Collin Koh, editors

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Local public finance and economics: an international perspective / Harry Kitchen, Melville McMillan, Anwar Shah

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Mining, money and markets in the early modern Atlantic: digital approaches and new perspectives / Renate Pieper, Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies, Markus Denzel, editors

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Automating finance: infrastructures, engineers, and the making of electronic markets / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California, San Diego

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Money and banking in Africa Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako, Vera Ogeh Fiador, Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor, Mohammed Amidu, Lord Mensah

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Effective statistical learning methods for actuaries I: GLMs and extensions / by Michel Denuit, Donatien Hainaut, Julien Trufin

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Competency-based accounting education, training, and certification: an implementation guide / Alfred Borgonovo, Brian Friedrich, and Michael Wells

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Strategy, value and risk: industry dynamics and advanced financial management / Jamie Rogers

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The story of silver: how the white metal shaped America and the modern world / William L. Silber

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Read my lips: why Americans are proud to pay taxes / Vanessa S. Williamson

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Bankers and Bolsheviks: international finance and the Russian Revolution / Hassan Malik

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Financial speculation and fictitious profits: a marxist analysis / Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello, Mauricio de Souza Sabadini, editors

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The myth of independence: how Congress governs the Federal Reserve / Sarah Binder, Mark Spindel

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Money talks: explaining how money really works / edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry & Viviana A. Zelizer

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Dark matter credit: the development of peer-to-peer lending and banking in France / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

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The purpose of banking: transforming banking for stability and economic growth / Anjan V. Thakor

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Aftermath: seven secrets of wealth preservation in the coming chaos / James Rickards

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Derivatives and Internal Models: Modern Risk Management / by Hans-Peter Deutsch, Mark W. Beinker

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Nudging in management accounting: assessment of the relevance of nudging in the corporate context / Susanne Rauscher, Annika Zielke

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