Australian SP/ASX 200 futures rose 0.1% in early trading.

Two more firms are eyeing a share of Reliance Industries Ltd's $65-billion digital unit Jio Platforms, according to Bloomberg News, setting them up to be a part of a growing list of firms that have recently invested in the Indian company.

China's policymakers struggle to grapple with a property market, the world's largest, that is crucial for growth yet prone to bubbles springing up in unlikely places.

Two more firms are eyeing a share of Reliance Industries Ltd's $65-billion digital unit Jio Platforms, according to Bloomberg News, setting them up to be a part of a growing list of firms that have recently invested in the Indian company.

The already ailing handloom sector has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

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With just 73 confirmed cases of the virus and no deaths, India, a country of 1.3 billion people, has so far fared better than elsewhere in Asia, Europe and North America. But experts say India's already overstretched medical system would struggle to deal with a major rise in serious cases.

Commercial cultivation of flowers is gradually picking up in Jammu and Kashmir.

As the tulip garden by the banks of the Dal Lake is thrown open to the public, the authorities are skeptic about how long the breathtaking view of the flowers in full glory would last.

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

Asia''s largest tulip garden, which could also become the world''s largest, is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

Across the Malihabad town of Uttar Pradesh, growers are joyously looking at their blooming trees. This year has seen a record flowering and the blooms are so far not even infested with pests.

Orchards in hill state major consumers of vermicompost made in Punjab, a state which still banks on chemicals.

But things may change for one of the largest potato belts of Maharashtra this year.

Kashmir starts to wake up to the potential of its variety of flowers

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The maker of Lux soap and Lipton tea, which employs about 21,000 people and reported a 7% decline in volumes for the March quarter, said it is revisiting any further increases planned for the rest of the year.

Michael Bloombergs presidential campaign is hiring hundreds of workers in California to post regularly on their personal social-media accounts in support of the candidate and send text messages to their friends about him.

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With silent looms, crisis loom for handloom weavers and allied-workers

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Discos collections across country have reduced by an unprecedented 80%, threatening power blackouts in India.

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Locals complained that the situation was the worst in Berhampore Municipal Corporation.

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