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How brands can provide the best customer experience

‘Share of experience’ is the new norm, and one needs to consistently make efforts towards it to survive in the modern age




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One on One: Building Loyalty On Mobile With Jack Philbin, CEO, Vibes

What's up with Apple Wallet?




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One on One: Connecting Global Audiences With Lilian Leong, COO, 9GAG

No potato needed




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Don’t force industry to pay wages during COVID-19 lockdown

Growth was already slowing before the corona outbreak; forcing industry to pay full wages imperils MSMEs’ survival




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Covid-19 pandemic: 800 million households dependent on remittances to be hit

Global and multilateral institutions and national governments need to come together to make sure that the loss of income is offset through cash-and-kind support.




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Designing minimum income guarantee post-Covid-19 collapse

Transfer amounts should also be linked to CPI. While PM-KISAN covers only farmers and is much more expensive and exclusive, such a transfer would avoid narrow coverage, also avoiding inclusion/exclusion errors




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Inside Track: Amid COVID-19 crisis, steps seem afoot to ensure Rahul Gandhi returns as Congress president

The impression was reinforced when Rajnath Singh, and not Shah, was appointed last month to head the 15- member high-power ministerial committee coordinating with states on ensuring movement of essential supplies during the lockdown.




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Dial-A-Doctor: eSanjeevani portal for telemedicine a welcome move by govt

As more governments integrate the service—Himachal Pradesh was latest to do so, on April 21—one can expect traffic to increase.




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Institutional challenges to migrants’ welfare

Not only has the registration of migrant workers by states been unsatisfactory, but state welfare boards’ capacities to offer assistance also varies, hampering daily wage labourers’ access to social and food security during the crisis




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Franklin Templeton AMC is to blame for poor investment choices, not Coronavirus

Can’t blame Corona for crisis, investment choice was poor




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A less direct approach: Amended FDI regulation is problematic under the WTO law

Amended FDI regulation is problematic under the WTO law. India should adopt a more facially neutral regulation




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Spirit of federalism: Centre must allow states to resume liquor sales

This trend continues even for local governments, which come to rely more on state transfers to run the administration.




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South Korea’s COVID-19 success story

The country’s NGOs and trade unions were critical in monitoring the situation, and reaching vulnerable groups.




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Taxpayer money deserves a little more respect

As for MFs, many of them are backed by strong parents—in India and overseas—and this is the time for them to support their offspring.




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Schools are functioning despite extraordinary challenges, no ground to deny them fees

However, the High Court rejected this invocation of Rule 165, ruling that the it specified only the payability conditions of fees, and not the chargeability of it.




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COVID-19’s costly trade-off: Unless lives are preserved, livelihoods become redundant

Coronavirus is ensuring the trade-off, especially for developing economies is significant, notwithstanding efforts to strike a balance




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Rishi Kapoor: A ‘lovely lover’ who was destined to be a star

Rishi Kapoor was old Bollywood, but he was also cracklingly fresh, spoke to an India trembling on the cusp of a new era




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COVID-19 lockdown: Urgent need to decongest megacities

Before tertiary infections take root, it could perhaps be a good to plan to decongest the slums by arranging travel of migrants to their home in orderly manner without losing time




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Covid crisis: Govt orders like no pay and job cut can severely dent business confidence

Government orders on waiver of rents impinge on contractual rights.




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Dressing Covid numbers: Bengal’s handling of the Covid outbreak raises many questions

Bengal’s handling of the Covid outbreak raises many questions.




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Covid-19: Time to think of key tax reforms — Few suggestions

The Covid 19 crisis is an opportunity to redefine tax policy and law. A calibrated approach to balance welfare economics with a vision to pioneer economic activity and national growth is needed.




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Coordinating Covid-Response: Global coordination needed to tackle Covid-19 crisis

The world must use this opportunity to fund global public goods and rebuild global systems to fight the right battles.




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Walk in the park: Golf courses around the world are under pressure to open up as parks for the general public

Nearly 7,000 people have signed a change.org petition to open up courses in the UK as parks during the pandemic.




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Governments need to incorporate battling strategies for diseases like COVID-19 in their national security plans

In India, which is the biggest democracy in the world with over 1.3 billion people, the question of public health has never been debated in public.




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Without due process: Government orders on waiver of rents impinge on contractual rights

By Abhinav Mukerji Recently, there have been a spate of news reports on measures issued through executive orders directing waiver of rents, reduction or freezing of school fees, continuation of employment, restriction on termination of employees, and restriction on reduction in salary in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The government has also issued executive […]




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Building a resilient India: COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to redefine tax policy and law

The Covid 19 crisis is an opportunity to redefine tax policy and law. A calibrated approach to balance welfare economics with a vision to pioneer economic activity and national growth is needed.




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Virtually Real: Gaming has been serious business for some time, but Fortnite’s experiment shows the success of metaverse

Gaming has been serious business for some time, but Fortnite’s experiment shows the success of metaverse.




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Covid-19 testing rates do not match mortality rates

We should continue to implement all the needed public health measures instead of projecting testing rates as the sole path to salvation




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Covid crisis: States must be assigned their rightful role

The basic decision making on the ground must be left to the states and should involve municipal corporations and wards.




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What India should do when oil prices have crashed

With crude price low, the govt should think of moving completely to DBT for food, fertiliser and power.




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Private hospitals have a point in not admitting patients without testing for Covid-19

Lack of PPE & shortage of testing kits is a real issue.




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What India should do to bolster confidence of investors in post Covid world

India’s share of world manufacturing output is just 3%; it can easily be raised to 6% in 3-4 years, and 15% by 2030




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Covid-19 pandemic: Growth lessons for states from Gujarat, Karnataka

The pandemic and its economic consequences have given every state economy the unprecedented opportunity to take bold decisions and accelerate decadal growth.




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Challenges beyond Covid-19 crisis: UGC should seriously think about an SAT-style entrance test

Covid-19 presents an opportunity for UGC to push for US SAT-style common entrance exam




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Gathering Coronavirus data from states: More central monitoring teams is a good idea

Even now, a state like West Bengal’s data looks dodgy; others like Gujarat and UP also pose challenges




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Fruit for thought! Lockdown has forced farmers into shock sales — and debt

Everyone in the banana supply chain seems to be gaining from the lockdown, except growers.




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Sporting Spirit: Wushu championship shows that sports is trying its best to adapt to a new normal

The lockdown has added significant impetus, however, to e-sports or online sports, which are fast becoming a mainstream activity.




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Get the cost and risk mix right to attract investors

With China’s decreasing importance in global supply chains, being a low risk indexed location will allow India to win in global manufacturing stakes.




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An army against COVID-19: How countries like Israel, South Korea, US are racing to develop Corona vaccine

Israel has just reported a potent monoclonal antibody (mAb) against SARS CoV-2. Firms in South Korea, the US are leading mAb trials.




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Giving migrant workers a better deal: Centre, states must ensure migrant workers are not left in the lurch

Centre and states must work together to ensure migrant workers are not left in the lurch during crises. Social security infrastructure must be strengthened and registration processes made more accessible for them.




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COVID-19 war: Where are India’s rich, its temples?

In an unprecedented crisis, you would expect them to take full responsibility for lakhs of poor; as they did in ancient times.




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Rescuing real estate: Developers must take bold and agile action to survive Corona shock

For ‘Act Now’, company leadership should create a “war room” with a senior cross-functional team, focused on scenario planning, prioritising crisis response, and managing initiatives in with dynamism and agility.




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App Adoption: Govt needs to incorporate more features to drive Aarogya Setu adoption

According to an Indian Express report, on May 3, the Gautam Budh Nagar Police issued an order that all residents of Noida or Greater Noida, and anyone entering the city will need to download the Aarogya Setu app.




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Relax FRBM target for states to fight COVID-19

States should be allowed to issue ‘pandemic relief’ bonds, with the central bank being allowed to buy these bonds by printing money and monetising their debt.




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Bitter medicine: COVID-19 has exposed pitfalls of Indian pharma’s over-dependence on Chinese API

The Katoch committee, in 2015, had proposed several measures like setting up parks for API, providing capex, and subsidised loans to boost domestic production of APIs.




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The Hudhud lessons: Ensuring a healthy insurance biz

Insurers must help clients mitigate the risks of any eventuality




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División de Servicios Sociales de Delaware Aprobados para la EBT debido a la Pandemia para Alimentar a los Niños

NEW CASTLE (5 de mayo de 2020) – El 1 de mayo, la División de Servicios Sociales fue aprobada por el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para operar la Transferencia Electrónica de Beneficios Debido a la Pandemia (P-EBT, por sus siglas en inglés), un programa nuevo autorizado […]



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Public Health Announces 166 Additional Positive Cases; 8 New Deaths

The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is announcing eight additional fatalities related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is providing an update on the number of positive cases and recovered individuals. All data reported through the daily updates are based on data received as of 6 p.m. the previous day.



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Flashback: Nokia's Touch and Type blurred the lines between smart and feature phones

The division between smartphones and feature phones has often been murky. In the past, it used to be about how well the device ran user-installed apps and games, these days it's mostly touch screen vs. keypad. But there always were devices that straddled the line between those two categories. Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type official photos Before Nokia released the no-quite-smartphone Asha phones, there were the two Touch and Type models. As we said, these phones tried to have it both ways. The Nokia X3-02 and C3-01 both came out in late 2010. What made them special was that...




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Weekly poll results: Xiaomi's Mi Note 10 Lite and Redmi Note 9 Pro get a warm welcome

The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite attracted a lot of interest in last week's poll - the sentiment is positive, though some wish the price was lower. As it stands, it's quite close to the vanilla Mi Note 10 and some people are willing to pay extra to get not one but two telephoto cameras. More than half of voters are interested in the Lite model, though most of them will wait for a promotional price before pulling the trigger. Only 18% of voters think that the recently-discounted Mi Note 10 is a better buy. Whether you go with the Note 10 or Note 10 Lite, it's still a win for Xiaomi, of...