The oil-to-telecom behemoth has created a strong balance sheet that supports growth plans for three hyper-growth engines—Jio, Retail, and O2C. And as part of CSR, it’s also in the healthcare space.
While the Reserve Bank of India kept policy rates and its accommodative stance unchanged, additional monetary measures have been brought in to fight the second wave of Covid-19.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation in India has shown, during the Covid-19 pandemic, how strong scientific organisations can help in a health crisis.
India’s vaccine giant faces the huge social responsibility of supply into the domestic market and a contractual demand for export of vaccines to foreign countries.
Bharat Biotech, founded by Krishna Ella and his wife Suchitra, has been at the forefront of making vaccines for a while. Yet it took a global pandemic for the spotlight to shine on the company.
The central bank unveils liquidity facility of ₹50,000 crore for access to emergency health services, and ₹10,000 crore for small finance banks’ on-lending, among a slew of measures to fight Covid-19.
In a big move, India has opened up Covid-19 vaccinations for all adults. However, the country is beset by severe vaccine shortage and other challenges. Will increasing the demand base work?
In a matter of 41 trading days, since the last life-high on February 16, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused between 8% -9.8% correction in the benchmark equity indices until April 19.
