PM Narendra Modi meets financial regulators; discusses measures to revive COVID-hit economy

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a brainstorming session with financial sector regulators and discussed various measures to revive the economy hit hard by COVID-19 crisis. According to sources, the meeting discussed various steps that regulators, especially the Reserve Bank of India, can take to push economic growth staring at the risk … Read more

Next on Central Govt agenda: Facelift of panchayats, village master plan, economic centres

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NEW DELHI: The government has set up an expert panel to help draw up a master plan for every village, complete with a growth centre for its flagship produce, a digital training centre, and a township with accommodation facilities for teachers and health professionals. The government has roped in experts from IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, … Read more

View: The problems with India’s production-linked incentive scheme and how to fix them

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India has, rightly, accorded a high priority to electronics hardware manufacturing as an important pillar for ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. SynopsisIt’s difficult to build a manufacturing nucleus around R&D of semiconductors and compete with MNCs overnight, including high-value components like displays, camera modules and memory chips to be part of India’s manufacturing nucleus … Read more

From workplace to yoga classes, Zoom has changed the way people connect: Aparna Bawa, COO

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Video conferencing app Zoom‘s COO Aparna Bawa and President of Products and Engineering, Velchamy Sankarlingam spoke exclusively from the US. This was their first interview to Indian media. Edited excerpts How have the last few months been? Were you prepared for the velocity of growth that suddenly exploded after Covid-19? Aparna Bawa: It has been … Read more