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Over 1.75 Lakh People Visit Business Immunity Platform Website in A Week

The Invest India Business Immunity Platform, hosted on the website of Invest India, India’s National Investment Promotion & Facilitation Agency, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is working 24X7 as a comprehensive resource to help businesses and investors get real-time updates on India’s active response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

India has Enough Stock of Petrol, Diesel, LPG : IOC

India, the world”s third largest energy consumer, has enough petrol, diesel and cooking gas (LPG) in stocks to last way beyond the three-week nationwide lockdown as all plants and supply locations are fully operational, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Chairman Sanjiv Singh said.

iPhone Makers Plan to Shift Some Manufacturing to India, from China

Wistron Corp., one of Apple’s manufacturing partners, said this week half its capacity could reside outside China within a year. The declaration underscored how the Asian assemblers that keep the world supplied with iPhones and other gadgets are shifting to a higher gear after the coronavirus showed the folly of staking everything on one country.

Leveraging Data Science To Improve Agronomy

There is a great opportunity to leverage data science technologies to analyze the agriculture landscape, grain demand, explore past data, gain insights and define formal models that may be used by farmers to make decisions about crop selection, soil management and planning logistics.

Cabinet Approves Recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for continuation of the process of recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) by providing minimum regulatory capital to RRBs for another year beyond 2019-20, that is, up to 2020-21 for those RRBs which are unable to maintain minimum Capital to Risk weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR) of 9%, as per the regulatory norms prescribed by the Reserve Bank of India.