The International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief Economist, Petya Koeva Brooks, in an interview to PTI on Friday also made a strong case for an additional economic stimulus to address the impact of the pandemic on the country's economy

\"The agreement is legally binding and served as a basis for the first-round allocation document, which has been communicated to all participating economies,\" a Gavi spokeswoman said in an email

The April 5-8 poll of more than 50 economists showed retail inflation rose to 5.40 per cent in March from a year earlier as opposed to 5.03 per cent in February. Forecasts ranged from 4.60% to 6.11 per cent

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Amid rapidly spreading second wave of COVID-19, 60% of new cases have been reported from Maharashtra, leading to a lockdown

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To begin with, Citroen has set up dealerships in 10 major cities in the country but given the pandemic situation, its focus is more on online sales. It has also launched 100% direct online buying for the C5 Aircross SUV which covers customers in over 50 Indian cities outside the dealer network

PLI scheme: The PLI scheme, which aims at boosting domestic manufacturing in the country, is a central government initiative to make the indigenous industry globally competitive and aimed at the production of high-value export-oriented items

Subdued foreign demand for services meant export business declined again, although the fall was the shallowest since February last year - not long before the full impact of the pandemic hit

Baseline projections show a return of inflation to its long-term average as the remaining slack subsides only gradually and commodity-driven base effects fade away, IMF said.

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The dip in output by around Rs 40,000 crore in the case of Maharashtra would lead to a decline in Gross value added (GVA) growth by 0.32% at the overall domestic economic level

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The refiners - Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd - normally buy 14.8 million barrels of Saudi oil in a month

The rating agency said the loss of economic activity will have a 0.32 per cent impact on the gross value added (GVA) growth at the national level. It revised down its national GDP growth estimate to 10.7 - 10.9 per cent from the 11 - 11.2 per cent

Despite the surge in cases, it said, the recovery in economy is resilient with sustained improvement in majority of high frequency indicators.

The Gateway House report titled 'Digital Manufacturing in India' points out that for digital manufacturing to be truly successful in India, it must be adopted by essentially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which comprise over 90 percent of India's industry