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A VIRTUAL DOSE

Digital connect with doctors and remote health monitoring are changing the healthcare delivery model

Hunt For Magic Potion

Seven Indian firms are among those hunting for a vaccine to tame Covid-19. Here is how the projects are progressing

Big Challenge Is To Ensure Construction Starts At The Earliest

There is a perception that government expenditure over the next few months will be focused more on healthcare and disaster management, leading to lower spends on key infrastructure projects, including highways. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, spoke to Business Today’s Nirbhay Kumar on how the government plans to restart key projects.

The Game Changer

With both sides tight-lipped, the nuts and bolts of Jio-Facebook tie-up remain shrouded in mystery

The Booby Trap

Coronavirus lockdown has created multiple landmines in the financial services sector. This is how banks and NBFCs are preparing for life post-coronavirus

Funding Disaster Relief

Despite all the brouhaha around PM CARES Fund, it is states that are at the forefront of funding disaster relief and rehabilitation

Uphill Battle

Staring at record losses, the travel and tourism sector is preparing a plan to take on coronavirus

Survival of the Fittest

Companies with low financial liabilities and high liquidity on their books have better chance to tide over the coronavirus-triggered deep slowdown

NO FULL STOPS

How India Inc's business continuity plans are being overhauled to tide over the coronavirus crisis

CHECK ON THE DRAGON

As India tightens FDI norms, Chinese firms and investments may face regulatory and consumer backlash. The friction between Asian giants could be the beginning of an adversarial chapter in trade

Best Advice I Ever Got

“YOU ARE THE CUSTODIAN OF THE CULTURE OF THE ORGANISATION”

The Virus Cover

The coronavirus pandemic has created the need for a ‘Virus Insurance Pool’ on the lines of terrorism and nuclear pools

How To Get Emergency Funding

A large number of people are under financial stress due to lockdown and market crash. Here are some avenues for raising money with ease

The Coronavirus Economy

Car companies are making ventilators, sugar mills and liquor producers are bottling hand sanitisers, apparel makers are diversifying into masks and protective clothing, drug and drone makers are witnessing a surge in demand. The war against Covid-19 is already a ₹12,000 crore economy

Jumpstarting Post-Coronavirus Economy

P. Chidambaram, Meghnad Desai, Bimal Jalan, D. Subbarao, and Junaid Ahmad on how to get the GDP going

THE FARM TO FORK CRISIS

India has surplus agri produce this season. But fractured supply chain has hit harvesting, storing, transporting and selling. Here is how it is being worked upon

FIGHTING THE FEAR FACTOR

India Inc. is staring at severe operational and financial troubles. This is how it is planning to weather the storm

“THERE WILL BE DIVERSIFICATION OF SUPPLY CHAINS”

With $571 billion worth of assets under management, Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms. In India, it has invested about $16 billion in real estate, private equity and stressed assets. It is also the biggest commercial real estate investor in the country. Blackstone Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, Stephen A. Schwarzman, talks to Business Today’s Joe C. Mathew about what the emerging economic crisis caused by the spread of coronavirus means for the global economy, and more. Edited excerpts:

BUILDING ON CORONA

How healthcare, FMCG, pharma, petrochemical and It companies will turn the capabilities acquired during the coronavirus crisis into new businesses in India and abroad

FALLING SHORT

Government measures to tackle the current situation are not enough to revive the economy

BEING REALISTIC

A humanitarian crisis calls for humane HR policies to tide over what looks like the “new normal” post-lockdown

Aviation - Being Indian

Airlines are evaluating their expat pilots strategy to pare costs and rationalising route planning

STOCKING UP

CENTRE IS USING THE BREATHER TO TANK UP FUEL STORAGE AS WELL AS INDIA'S STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES

How India Inc. Can Fight Back

What the centre's package to combat corona crisis will do to India's already struggling economy

FOCUS INDIA

ONCE THE CURRENT CRISIS IS OVER, AUTO COMPANIES EXPECT SOPS TO MAKE PARTS IN INDIA. THE AIM IS TO DIVERSIFY SOURCING AWAY FROM A SINGLE DESTINATION LIKE CHINA

CAPTAINS PUT BEST FOOT FORWARD

AS THE COUNTRY FIGHTS COVID-19, INDUSTRY LEADERS STEP IN TO SHOW COMMITMENT TO BOTH THEIR WORKERS AND SOCIETY AT LARGE

OPPORTUNITY TO REPOSITION MAKE IN INDIA

INDIA’S CONSUMER DURABLES BUSINESSES ARE WORKING TO REDUCE SINGLE-COUNTRY SOURCING OF PARTS

DESIGNS FOR A COMEBACK

GEMS AND JEWELLERY EXPORTERS WILL LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS LIKE VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS, LOCAL SALES AND NEW EMERGING MARKETS

BUILD A NEW PORTFOLIO

DIVERSIFY AND PARK MONEY IN SELECT LARGE CAPS AVAILABLE AT THROWAWAY PRICES

BEYOND CHINA

CHEMICAL AND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL COMPANIES ARE REVISING THEIR SOURCING STRATEGIES