With 90 per cent start-ups witnessing decline in their revenue and 70 per cent of them cash strapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's a scene of doom and gloom in the near-term

After the Franklin Templeton mishap, you can no longer ignore the issue and take safety of debt funds for granted

The six schemes included Franklin India Low Duration Fund, Franklin India Dynamic Accrual Fund, Franklin India Credit Risk Fund, Franklin India Short Term Income Plan, Franklin India Ultra Short Bond Fund and Franklin India Income Opportunities Fund

Gross treatment to migrants comes along with massive job loss, historically low wage rates, little job or social security and subsistence level existence of millions of Indian workers. This is hardly an ideal situation to recover or rebuild the economy

In April, the government said it would monitor FDI from companies based in neighbouring countries, in what was widely seen as a move to keep Chinese firms from taking stakes in distressed local businesses amid the coronavirus crisis

Particularly, MFI sector hailed the move of making it available to the MFIs rated below AA. Many MFIs, she says, including Spandana, have rating of either A-minus or below that

The traditional approach of pumping money into banks to push liquidity to corporates and NBFCs is not working. It's time to change the strategy

Another White House economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, said future legislation could include food aid to help Americans struggling with hunger amid widespread job losses that have ruined the finances of many people

Lack of emergency funds will force you to either go for distress selling of your investments or high-cost borrowing, which will jeopardise all your future goals. One should ideally have an emergency fund which can take care of at least 6 months of expenses

India needs to address massive job losses; strengthen public healthcare for COVID-19 and beyond; develop institutional mechanisms and leadership to respond to emergencies; devolve decision-making and funding to states, local bodies and scale up public spending to infuse life into the economy, all of which call for structural changes

The fund house said the remarks made by Jenny Johnson, president and CEO, Franklin Templeton during their quarterly earnings call were quoted \"out of context\" by media outlets

Companies' success in the next 18 months won't be determined by their growth or profitability, but merely by their ability to survive and not run out of cash

In order to meet redemption pressure, fund managers are struggling to either sell or pledge top-rated liquid papers to raise money

Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday at the age of 53 and is survived by his wife, Sutapa Sikdar and two children

Irrfan Khan death: 'Just getting news of the passing of Irfaan Khan...this is most disturbing and sad news...An incredible talent...a gracious colleague... a prolific contributor to the World of Cinema .. left us too soon,' Amitabh Bachchan wrote on Twitter

Corona lockdown live updates: Union Home Ministry said new guidelines to fight COVID-19 will come into effect from May 4, which shall give considerable relaxations to many districts; India saw 1,813 new cases and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours

Besides lending against securities held by MFs, banks have been allowed by the RBI to do outright purchase of more than 25 per cent of Hold Till Maturity (HTM) securities in mutual funds portfolios in the absence of liquidity in the secondary market

Corona lockdown extension live updates: Nagaland has imposed COVID-19 cess of Rs 5 per litre for diesel and Rs 6 for petrol and motor spirit; Delhi demarcated one more containment zone, taking their total number to 100

\"I welcome the RBI's announcement of a Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility for Mutual Funds. I am glad that RBI has taken note of the concerns expressed two days ago and requesting prompt action,\" Chidambaram tweeted

Coronavirus lockdown extension live updates: From Tuesday, Haryana will restrict movement to satellite cities of Gurugram and Faridabad. Borders in Sonipat and Jhajjar have already been tightened