Lupin has appointed Ramesh Swaminathan as chief financial officer and head of corporate affairs.NTPC has signed a share-purchase agreement with the Centre to acquire NEEPCO and THDCIL

RBI announced reduction of cash reserve ratio for all banks by 100 basis points to 3.0%.RBI will conduct auctions of targeted term repos of up to three years tenor of appropriate sizes

The agency said the G-20 economies will experience an unprecedented shock in the first half of this year.Moody’s also slashed growth forecast for China to 3.3% in 2020, followed by 6.0% growth in 2021

From an individual standpoint, loans such as car loans and home loans will qualify for the moratorium.Moratorium may not be given to everyone. Banks may come out with their own eligibility criteria

Out of the confirmed cases, 34 are from Kasargod, the north Kerala district that reportedly paid scant regard, initially at least, for stay-at-home advisories issued by the state.Kerala has 1,10,299 people under observation right now, 616 of them in hospitals…

The image is from the throat swab sample of the first laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 case in India, reported on January 30 in Kerala

The preparations have already begun in Delhi, where government has started scaling up its health infrastructure .Stage 3 is community transmission, when the source of infection is not known for majority of the infected population and new positive cases can…