Pace at which second wave is spreading shows how new strains of coronavirus are making it difficult to contain spread, especially in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, and Karnataka. Covid-19 spike comes even as India carries out world's biggest vaccination programme

While India's per capita GDP is estimated to fall 10.5 per cent to $1,877, lowest in five years, Bangladesh will see it going up 4 per cent to $1,888 in 2020. Our neighbouring nation Pakistan's per capita GDP in dollar terms will fall from $1,625 to $1,349 in 2020

Initial 30 crore vaccinations (60 crore doses) planned by the Centre would have cost Rs 13,200 crore. However, need for 66 crore doses raises the cost by Rs 1320 crore

RBI claim seems partially 'correct'; while it'll be India's first technical recession in terms of quarterly GDP numbers, the country has faced four recessions in terms of yearly GDP in the past

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and subsidiaries bought stakes in seven firms in 2018; nine in 2019; and five this year so far; four more are in the pipeline for the year 2020

\"Today, we have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement with Google under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7% stake in Jio Platforms. This transaction is subject to regulatory and other customary approvals,\" says Ambani

Kashmir issue: Pakistan's embargo on trade with India comes at a time when Pakistan's economy is on life support from China, Saudi Arabia, UAE and bodies like the International Monetary Fund

While the RBI cut repo rate by 2.6 per cent since 2014, SBI cut its floating rate by 1.1 per cent only; experts cite a slowdown in household savings, bad loans, and persistent liquidity crunch in NBFC as reason for slow transmission

The top five financial institutions that lent money to Coffee Day Enterprises on 'personal guarantee' included ; Axis Bank (exposure Rs 360 crore); ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (Rs 347.2 crore); Aditya Birla Finance Limited (Rs 277.9 crore);Tata Capital Financial Services (exposure Rs 163 crore) and DEG (Rs 141.6 crore)

Coffee Day Enterprises stock has fallen 70 pc from the peak of Rs 374.60 to Rs 110.95 on August 1, 2019 - an erosion of Rs 5,265 crore in market cap

The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee report says Chanda Kochhar violated the bank's code of conduct, following which the bank board has decided to clawback bonuses paid to her since April 2009.

From human development indicators like health and education to economic parameters like tax-to-GDP ratio, currency performance, and current account deficit, Pakistan's track record is dismal on all fronts.