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Economy Sangeetha Chengappa Bengaluru | Updated on March 23, 2020 Published on March 23, 2020 The World Economic Forum (WEF) has invited India to join its COVID Action Platform (CAP) launched earlier this month, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO).“We are in the process of reaching out…

Special Report Hristina Byrnes, John Harrington /> /> Despite significant advances in gender equality, men and women are still treated differently in what is a major barrier to social justice. Globally, women continue to play a lesser role than men in leadership and business. These gaps lead to pay parities…

Indian Railways has taken a slew of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 virus. The measures are being implemented across all the zones and relate to dis-incentivizing non- essential travel, a proactive outreach and communication campaign and reduction in the number of trains with low occupancies.These measures are in…

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and…

First Published: March 14, 2020 | Last Updated:March 16, 2020 12345678910 1).Which Indian public sector bank waived the minimum balance requirement for all savings bank (SB) accounts? Punjab National Bank State Bank of India Canara Bank Union Bank of India 2).World Economic Forum (WEF) released its new list of 115…

Mar 13, 2020 at 20:15 UTCUpdated Mar 13, 2020 at 23:39 UTCDespite Bitcoin Price Dips, Crypto Is a Safe Haven in the Middle EastAlthough it’s difficult to quantify demand for bitcoin (BTC) in informal markets across the Middle East, small-scale traders from Lebanon to Yemen say interest in bitcoin as…

The novel coronavirus represents a fearsome risk which is stirring feverish behaviour by investors worldwide. This column shows that initially, economic expectations about international trade underlay movements in the stock prices of individual firms; later, concerns about corporate debt began to play a role.  The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will go…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,464 points, or 5.86%, on Wednesday, as investor anxiety over the coronavirus outbreak pushed the index into a bear market for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also slipped by 4.89% and 4.7%, respectively.Wednesday's Dow close mark a…

The World Economic Forum announced on Wednesday (11 March) a new alliance of multinationals to fight against the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and mitigate its impact on the deteriorating economy. More than 200 companies already said they will join the new COVID Action platform launched by the WEF, organiser of the…

Forget EBITA, P/E ratios and Black-Scholes models. The metric that matters most right now when it comes to determining the future success or failure of a multinational corporation is trust. A number of recent events have cemented this fact. First, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager which oversees roughly $7…