Chuck Schumer said Thursday Democrats are looking to pass a relief package as massive and far-reaching as those implemented during the Great Depression under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In tonight's episode of the Channel 4 show Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, the team discover delivery service Hermes are sending packages straight to auction houses in Birmingham.

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London's Tower Bridge has reopened after it was sealed off today at around 12.20pm by armed police as they examined a package, which has since been found to be non-suspicious.

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Mike Sonko, governor of the Kenyan capital, announced the parcels would contain miniatures of premium brandy at a typically flamboyant news conference on Tuesday.

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When it comes to loading up the big guns, Japan is market leader. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is unsheathing a fiscal package as the country places its cities under a state of emergency.

British tennis pulled together a £20million bailout package on Friday night, as the governing body put its considerable financial muscle behind the sport's survival efforts.

Chief exec Steve Rowe (pictured) will still take his full £810,000 salary plus bonuses this year despite asking long-suffering savers and the taxpayer to prop up the ailing business.

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The battery-powered devices about the size of a small cooler and can deliver packages autonomously, but for now, they'll be accompanied with a human while they're being tested out.

The telecoms giant has announced its popular entertainment package - which includes Sky One, Sky Atlantic and MTV - is due to increase by £2 from £22 to £24 a month.

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The entities have requested the state government to act as guarantor for soft loans or facilitate collateral-free loans

The opposition party also demanded that the Centre pays all pending dues to states to enable them to fight the outbreak, besides giving each of them special packages.

Chowdhury said that the governments and doctors have done a nice job in comparison to other countries, considering India has a population of 130 crore

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Mr Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways and MSME, Govt of India said that government is likely to announce a relief package for the MSME sector soon. He further said that all stakeholders must adopt an integrated approach to come over the crisis while ensuring the lives and livelihood of the people. Mr Gadkari also urged the industry to have a positive attitude during this time to tide over this crisis. "We will win the fight against corona along with the economic crisis and make India the superpower nation. Hum honge kamyab," said Mr Gadkari.

Even in regions touted as India’s food bowl, Rs 3000 a month is all that a farmer earns for his family! Devinder Sharma crunches data from CACP to highlight the grave crisis in the agrarian economy.

Had there been a waiver of debt of up to just Rs.25,000, more than 80 per cent of Vidarbha's farmers would no longer have owed the banks money. People thought that waiver would come. It didn't, and the sense of being let down is great, writes P Sainath.

Vidarbha's farmers are unhappy with the "relief packages" announced by the State and the Centre. Debt relief and access to credit are certainly important to them, but they want the larger issues driving the suicides addressed first, writes P Sainath.

By the Maharashtra government's own count, the 14,221 high-breed cows it gave farmers in Vidarbha add just 1.16 litres each to the milk collection in the region. These cows have cost already indebted farmers over Rs.7.5 crore. P Sainath reports.

"We are confused, whom should we believe in? The finance minister says action will be taken within 48 hours against officials who do not release the credit, and the babus say they have no notification," says sixty-year-old Tatyaji Panghate at Ghonsa in Zari Jamni block of Yavatmal. Jaideep Hardikar reports on more suicides in Vidarbha.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's audit of relief packages for Vidarbha's farmers finds that they were tardy in implementation, mindless in conceptualisation and "inconsistent with local needs." The state government has skirted debate. Jaideep Hardikar on the indictment.

On Tuesday, Fitch warned India's sovereign rating could come under pressure if its fiscal outlook deteriorates further as the government tries to steer the country through the coronavirus crisis.

PM Narendra Modi, who held discussions with Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman, on Friday held meetings with different ministries including civil aviation, labour and power.

Since the first lockdown extension, Crane Owners Association of India, which has over 150 members, have written twice to MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari and once to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking their help.

Participating in the same meeting, Union Minister for MSME and Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari also said "a package is going to be declared".

Confederation of Indian Industry said a substantive stimulus is required from the government in the form of support to the poor and to the industry.

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

In a letter to Modi, Gandhi also made some suggestions for the revival of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), which is reeling under the adverse impact of the coronavirus lockdown.

On May 4, the Congress party tweeted a 1.44-minute clip from their conversation and the full interview was released on Wednesday.

An immediate substantive stimulus is required from the Government in the form of support to the poor and support to industry especially the MSMEs, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has said. "With economic activities being restricted for over 50 days

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An immediate substantive stimulus is required from the Government in the form of support to the poor and support to industry especially the MSMEs, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has said. "With economic activities being restricted for over 50 days

In the last week the Indian rupee ended lower by 45 paise at 75.55 on May 8 against its April 30 closing of 75.10.

The broader market outperformed, as the SP BSE Midcap index rose 1.4 percent higher, while the SP BSE Smallcap index was up 1.7 percent.

The Indian benchmarks jumped nearly 3 percent on the closing of the long weekend for the market. The investors are still in hope for the stimulus package by the government.

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Members of the trade bloc urged India to convey its initial response to the package by May 15 as the Indo-Pacific region braces for a post-Covid-19 economic order, ET has learnt.

The CM also requested for specific grant of Rs 1,55,000 crore to boost various development programmes.