Dr Gill has replaced M. Ahyan Kose and his appointment will be effective from June 1, 2021

The United States is the worst-hit nation in the world by case count, with nearly 30 million infections so far, though new cases have been declining

Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

India has no data on jobs lost and businesses shut; no estimate of how many would have slipped into poverty or how income, health and education inequalities would have risen due to the pandemic. How will the Budget 2021 allocate resources appropriately to revive growth and bring development?

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

Multiple factors are responsible for this; some are well-known, like data fudging and man-made disasters of demonetisation, GST, and stringent lockdown; others are lost sight of, like lack of institutional support and intellectual rigour and frivolous approach to serious crisis

The executive order that had temporarily banned issuing fresh H-1B and L-1 visas till December 31, caused a negative impact to the valuation of Fortune 500 firms equivalent to over USD 100 billion in losses

Profit-driven enterprises are ill-suited to protect the health and life of a vast majority of people, as the US and Indian governments experience, but do precious little, thereby failing in their primary duty

One of the sources said that multiple Indian government agencies, including the Indian consulates in China, have been communicating with investors and their representatives to seek clarifications on the proposals

Senior fellow at Brookings Institute Tanvi Madan told members of the House Select Intelligence Committee that since early May there has been attempts by the People's Liberation Army of China to 'unilaterally change the status quo' along the LAC

India imports about 14 per cent goods and services from China as compared to 5.3 per cent exports to it, which happens to be one of the world's biggest trade deficits between two nations

Popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev posted a video on Twitter on Sunday showing the step-by-step deletion of several Chinese apps, a move he described as a 'national service'

Ambiguity about actual investments may have prompted Centre's swift move to curb FDI from China by tweaking norms

Tougher FDI rules were not a surprise, as other countries are also on guard against fire sales of corporate assets during the coronavirus outbreak, but that they apply to investments from countries that share a land border with India raised eyebrows

Car companies are making ventilators, sugar mills and liquor producers are bottling hand sanitisers, apparel makers are diversifying into masks and protective clothing, drug and drone makers are witnessing a surge in demand. The war against Covid-19 is already a Rs 12,000 crore economy

The Fed recently launched a new loan program to provide over $2 trillion assistance to small businesses and large companies.

United States accounts for nearly 30 percent of the all COVID-19 positive cases and over 17 percent of all fatalities

AgVa Healthcare will use its technology and expertise while Maruti Suzuki would provide manpower and additional space to manufacture ventilator

The plans are to increase the capacity of manufacturing from the current production capacity of 5,500-5,750 units per month to 50,000 ventilators per month by May end

With the number of COVID-19 cases in India rising every day and the death toll reaching 20, the shortage of ventilators in the country is likely to get woefully exposed in the days to come