Credit guarantees to MSMEs: In the latest tranche of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan package, the key thrust is a huge increase in credit guarantees to MSMEs. How do such guarantees work, and how is the move expected to help MSMEs?

The retrospective study included 412 Covid-19 patients (241 men and 171 women) admitted to a single health facility from March 27 to April 10.

With lockdown relaxations not extending to trains to ferry these labourers who usually arrive by early June, farmers are now being encouraged to adopt ‘direct seeding of rice’ (DSR) in place of conventional transplanting.

Researchers have detected the coronavirus in the stool of both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. This information has helped them identify the virus in untreated wastewater.

Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka are all nearing 1,000 confirmed cases now, while Haryana, with 793 cases, and Odisha, with 538, have many more than Kerala. Even the city of Chandigarh has recorded 189 cases so far, while Jharkhand has 177.

MSMEs, which make up for about 45 per cent of the country’s total manufacturing output, 40 per cent of exports, almost 30 per cent of the national GDP are stressed due to depleting internal reserves and low visibility of demand for next six months at least.

As the number of Covid cases in Japan rise, the hanko tradition is coming under fierce criticism, with industry leaders demanding that the tradition be abandoned.

Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has come out with guidelines that allow listed companies to serve the letter of offer, application form, and other offer material electronically. What changes for a share holder?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the 'One Nation One Ration Card' system will enable migrant workers and their family members to access PDS benefits from any Fair Price Shop in the country.

“Potential Fecal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Current Evidence and Implications for Public Health” will appear in an upcoming edition of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Rice University (Texas) said in a statement.

The fact that cats can get infected has been known for some time now; what do the latest findings add to existing knowledge?

Following infections inside Mumbai Central Jail, Maharashtra has started temporarily releasing half the prisoners in its jails. Which ones are being freed, what is the procedure, and what are other states doing?

According to IMF, the global economy is expected to shrink by over 3 per cent in 2020 – the steepest slowdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s. 

Coronavirus cases: As was being expected, Tamil Nadu over took Gujarat on Thursday, to become the state with the second-highest caseload.

Domestic and International Flights in India: Going by the initial feedback, a number of new rules and regulations are expected to be put into place that will change the flying experience.

Rattan Khatri, who would later come to be known as the “Matka King” of Mumbai, died in his South Mumbai home last Saturday (May 9), after having suffered a brain stroke recently.

Already under pressure due to surging Covid-19 cases and deaths in Maharashtra, the unopposed election would have come as welcome relief to Uddhav Thackeray.

Faced with a pandemic as well as a struggling economy, policymakers are grappling with difficult choices on relaxing lockdown restrictions. Jaipur city’s nodal Covid officer describes the factors to be considered.

A new study of 1,364 airports worldwide says India’s population density and frequent domestic travel put it at high risk for outbreaks from infected passengers arriving from within the country.

How has Covid-19 impacted the functioning of courts worldwide? The Indian Express takes stock.

The study found that this is higher than the lives lost from the pandemic — 4,633 as of May 4. The paper was published on Wednesday in Lancet Planetary Health.