"economic-impact"

Rising income inequality is the key reason why poor are finding it hard to access proper healthcare in this crisis

The total revenue of the company declined about 10 per cent to Rs 3,186 crore in 2020-21 compared to Rs 3,540.77 crore in the previous year.

The announcement came after a three-day meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The RBI has kept repo rate the central bank's lending rate unchanged at 4 per cent and reverse repo rate borrowing rate at 3.35 per cent.

Assocham said it has approached all the states and the Centre to provide liberal regulatory and financial forbearances for compliances.

This is for the first time since 1998-99 that consumption of petroleum products have shrunk in the country indicating the extent of economic impact that's the pandemic is having in the country.

The majority of these short blackouts were highly-targeted, affecting groups of villages or individual city districts and so were not included in this report, which focuses on larger region-wide shutdowns.