“Create a separate user profile with minimal privileges for work-only use. Close all work-related windows, applications, files, and documents when not in use. Do not use work email addresses to sign up for unauthorised, free tools. Grant access to your employees to corporate network only though a company-approved VPN with multi-factor authentication,” the advisory states.

Stocks in news: IndiGo, Biocon, L&T and M&M

HDFC Q3 profit jumps 4 times; provisions spike

IndiGo Q3 profit jumps 168% to Rs 496 crore; revenue rises 26%

ITC Q3 net profit jumps 29% at Rs 4,142 crore, beats Street estimates

Sensex falls 470 points, Nifty below 9,000; L&T climbs 6%, Airtel 4%

Sensex jumps 1,080 points, Nifty tops 9,300; IndusInd jumps up to 8%

Sensex gains 59 points, Nifty ends flat; J&K Bank surges 20%

Sensex zooms 997 pts, Nifty ends April F&O expiry at 9,860; India VIX posts worst month ever

Sensex surges 550 points, Nifty reclaims 9,350; IndusInd Bank, HUL jump 4% each

Sensex ends 199 pts higher, Nifty holds above at 9,250; RIL jumps over 3%

Budget 2020: Flat tax-rate without exemptions on FM's table

GST: Compensation shortfall seen at Rs 30K cr, next Council meet to take up the issue

Transmission of rate cuts to improve further: RBI Guv Shaktikanta Das

Covid-19 impact: Govt raises market borrowing limit to Rs 12 lakh cr for FY21

Agriculture not going to be impacted badly by lockdown: Niti Aayog VC Rajiv Kumar

Rotate your money in telecom, pharma & utilities sector: Krishna Kumar Karwa

Consumer durables, two-wheelers to recover fairly quickly from Covid impact: Sanjeev Prasad

Tech investments aimed at making Jio a solid digital company: Axis Securities

"I have seen a significant amount of evidence that suggests that the lab was underperforming, that there were security risks at the lab and that the virus could well have emanated from there," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Ben Shapiro in an interview on Friday.

The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers from countries like India and China in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

The Trump administration is tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists in response to the treatment of U.S.journalists in China, as tensions flare between the two nations over the coronavirus.

Bandipora: Fake currency racket busted by J&K Police, 4 arrested

Nearly 82 per cent of the total remittances received by the country originated from eight countries - the UAE, US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UK, and Malaysia.

ET looked at data from 1990-91 to present, and the remittance-elections bump is evident.

Globally, the pandemic has had a far-reaching impact and responsible organisations will choose not to put any employee at risk, feels Dayapatra Nevatia, chief operating officer, Mindtree.

Industry leaders said April-June quarter would be a washout even for the high and mighty.

The guidelines mandate companies to strictly observe the social distancing protocol, including restricting the number of people in a lift, providing health insurance to workers and random testing for Covid-19.

It took for the company’s HR department to visit the villages and show them the letters of approval received from the ministry of textile, local administration and to explain to the residents how this will help the country’s effort to fight the pandemic. HR departments face the additional task of convincing not just employees but their neighbours too of the hygienic conditions.

There has been a 35-40% increase in the number of cases of stress and panic attack in April over previous months, according to data from counselling firms. A large number of the callers seek cure for mental stress arising out of social isolation and the workfrom-home milieu — leading to anxiety, depression, loneliness.

75% companies lack a structure or policy to address frauds in CSR programs, the report said. Many companies that are now looking to allocate their CSR funds towards Covid-19 related programs, but still do not have structures in place that could avoid frauds, it said.

On Monday, the court had also said that the order is not sustainable in view of the fact that orders and/or directions were passed interfering with the holding of AGM by the companies that are separate juristic entities without first deciding the issue of jurisdiction.

The decision of the Birlas comes in spite of a favourable verdict from a two-judge division bench of the Calcutta High Court which on Monday had asked the probate court to hear the appellant MP Birla Group companies afresh, which was one of their key petitions.

Production cuts will be most in premium product portfolio as companies expect consumers to curb discretionary spending as the impact of the Covid-19. Manufacturing orders fall by up to 40% year on year as they expect much of current stock to remain unsold till then, company executives said.

​The app that complements the Aarogya Setu App has been made mandatory for all employees across the value chain, requiring them to update their health status, including close family members, on the app everyday. It has been developed to ensure safety and monitor employees' health on a real time basis.

“I have been trying for the last two years to pursue the scrappage policy. I have asked the Secretary (ministry of road transport and highways) to expedite the scrappage policy. Because this will help reduce production cost,” Gadkari said in an interaction with SIAM Institute on Thursday.

IIT-Guwahati has shown the way cornering the biggest pool of projects, followed by IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad. Nearly 50% of the key research in India’s premier technical schools are happening in six of the old IITs. Majority of the researches are happening in the field of personal protective care equipment (45 projects), followed by sanitisation (33) and treatment.

Texas A&M is the first US institution in the clinical trial to have federal clearance for testing on humans. Researchers hope to demonstrate that Bacillus Calmette-Guerin or BCG mitigates the effects of the novel coronavirus, allowing fewer people to be hospitalised or to die from COVID-19.

Seven companies including Aditya Birla Financial Services, Mahindra Financial Services, Bajaj Finance, Tata Capital and L&T Finance collectively raised ₹3,544 crore out of the targeted ₹10,400 crore on Monday and Tuesday.

The tenure of the instrument is two years and 364 days from the deemed date of allotment.

In Europe, investment grade-rated companies raised $83.2 billion in April, according to Refinitiv data.

This is the first instance when a fund house is shutting its schemes because of coronavirus related pandemic.

Analysts in an ETNow poll had projected the number at Rs 3,000 crore.

Cricket Australia is under huge financial pressure due to global lockdown and has laid off 80 percent of its staff. India's four-Test tour in December-January could provide a relief to the struggling bldy

The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn't brought under control by next year, the organising committee's president said in comments published Tuesday.

"After New Delhi didn't fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms, AIBA has terminated the contract. Therefore, India would have to pay a cancellation penalty of USD 500," the AIBA said in a statement.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said his ministry is devising a plan for phase-wise resumption of national camps for Olympic-bound athletes by the end of this month.

What he didn’t know was oil’s first trip into negative pricing had broken Interactive Brokers Group Inc.

India’s diverse culture is truly a photographer’s delight.

The writers of the film realised that academic failures do not mean it's all over.