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Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihood: ILO
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 1 (ANI): The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to COVID-19 outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy -- that is nearly half of the global workforce -- stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, the Inte
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PM Modi discusses ways to boost Defence, Aerospace Sector
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a detailed meeting to deliberate the potential reforms to ensure a robust and self-reliant defence industry in India that caters to short and long term needs of the armed forces and initiatives to give a boost t
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Need for global response to digital technologies to fight coronavirus: Ra
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad highlighted the need of a coordinated global response using digital technologies to fight the coronavirus pandemic during the G20 Digital Economy Ministerial virtual meeting on Thursday.
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PM Modi discusses potential economic reforms in mines, coal sectors
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a detailed meeting to deliberate upon the potential economic reforms in mines and coal sectors to give a boost to the economy in the backdrop of COVID-19, informed the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
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PM Modi discusses strategies to attract foreign investments
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a meeting to discuss strategies on ways to attract foreign investments to India as well as to promote local investments in order to give a boost to the economy against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
G-20 advanced economies to contract by 5.8 pc with COVID-19 restrictions:
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service has lowered its 2020-21 real GDP forecasts for all G-20 economies on the ground that economic costs of coronavirus crisis amid the near shutdown of the global economy are accumulating rapidly.
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Rs 65,000 crore needed to help poor, reopen economy in measured way: Raghu
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan said that Rs 65,000 crore is required to help the poor affected by the coronavirus-induced lockdown. He also laid stress on the need to restart the economy while taking precautions.
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State govt working towards economic revival, says Tripura Chief Minister
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], April 30 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said that the state government has a plan in place for the revival of its economy after the COVID-19 lockdown ends.
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US economy to plunge by 30 pc due to Covid-19 crisis
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [USA], April 30 (ANI): The US economy is going to crash by an unprecedented 30 per cent in the second quarter (April to June) as Americans have been forced to shutter down their business and stay home to stem the spread of coronavirus, the Washington Post reported citing high-l
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We need to give priority to Agriculture, Finance and Health sectors, says
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 30 (ANI): In a bid to restore the idea of becoming a five trillion dollar economy, India needs to give priority to sectors like Agriculture, Finance and Health, said former bureaucrat SC Srivastava.
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Rahul Gandhi set to start series of discussion with experts from India and
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is starting a new campaign by holding a series of discussion with experts to fight the corona pandemic and especially its impact on the economy. In the series, Rahul will talk to the experts hailing from different fields, of the
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SAIL gears up to boost production in post-lockdown period as demand bounce
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): PSU Maharatna Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) is making plans to boost production at all its plants once the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted and the economy springs back to near-normal levels, Chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary said on Wednesday.
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