The employment situation worsened from the start of March, before the lockdown was triggered, and then soared in the last week of the month and the first week of April 2020, CMIE data shows

Given its predominant role as a source of livelihood, the informal economy needs to be fixed first once the health crisis blows over. This would call for a series of long-neglected steps such as collecting comprehensive data on informal establishments and informal labour, benchmarking reasonable national minimum wage, providing comprehensive social security cover and reviving MSMEs

Unemployment rate largely remained under 8 per cent from April 2019 till February 2020, except in July and October when it surpassed the 8 per cent mark

A large number of MSMEs expect to resize operations in the coming months

FMCG, online retail, telecom and pharma seem to be the obvious gainers of the Covid-19 pandemic

Tarun Katial, CEO, ZEE5 India, says that the OTT platform's premium subscribers have gone up by over 100 per cent

To an economy passing through demand depression and high unemployment, the lockdown would add supply-side stress, accelerating the slowdown further and jeopardising the economic wellbeing of millions

Press Information Bureau denied any such possibility, saying that the story \"is malicious and fake and that there is no such plan\"

The COVID-19 pandemic may bring a major change in the consumers' mindset and the value system that underpin their luxury buying decisions. The brands that would work to understand this and adapt accordingly will surely turn out to be the new champions

Covid-19 pandemic was like a bold from the blue. Over the last seven years, the banks had braved the first of its kind balance sheet clean up with RBI's asset quality review for stressed loans

AAP leader Sushil Kumar Gupta requested the Centre to provide fiscal stimulus to micro and small traders in the national capital to protect them from coronavirus impact

There is panic among people due to coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). Besides, as a precautionary measure government has shut malls, theatres and other crowded places

The entire distribution, supply chain management and retail billing is done through the software created by Baba Ramdev's tech start-up Bharuwa Solutions and the company in the last one year has invested upwards of Rs 100 crore to get its tech platform in place

Chidambaram targetted the NDA government saying the BJP-led government failed to detect the 35 percent per year jump in Yes Bank loans that led to the crisis

Share price Bandhan Bank ended 6.02% or 24.10 points higher at Rs 424.50 compared to the previous close of Rs 400.40 on BSE

PayMate is improving process efficiency and providing greater transparency in cash flows

CBDT claimed \"unaccounted transactions\" of over Rs 150 crore have also been unearthed during the searches that were conducted on February 27 against a group of individuals, hawala dealers and businessmen in state capital Raipur that covered over 25 premises

The FM said that the banks have not been given any orders to recalibrate their ATMs or to gradually phase out the high denominations notes.

Indian jewellers have received surprise tax notices asking them to turn over money they made from customers who scrambled to buy gold after 2016 noteban

LG and Samsung sales executives have also informed key trade partners that there will be a price hike of 3-4 per cent for microwave ovens and washing machines from March