Adds aspects LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Tesco TSCO.L, Britain’s biggest retailer by gross sales, on Wednesday claimed a 15.6% drop in core earnings, with a leap in income due to the COVID-19 pandemic more than outweighed by higher expenditures and losses at Tesco Financial institution. The group, led due […]
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New Delhi: The Vaccine Task Force (VTF) set up by Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for focussed research on corona vaccines has allowed research institutions and laboratories to use patient samples for research and development (R&D) purposes. The government has framed detailed guidelines for sharing of bio-specimen and data for such […]
NEW DELHI: It’s the desi, rural version of Flipkart and Amazon, and is promoted by the government. Concerned over the severe restrictions on mobility and lack of adequate supplies in times of Covid-19, the government has facilitated the creation of a village-level online retail chain, planning massive supplies of essentials […]
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has started limited test use of WhatsApp to connect customers to grocery stores, days after Facebook decided to invest $5.7 billion in digital assets controlled by the company. JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, “has already started interacting with customers on WhatsApp for grocery […]
By P R Sanjai Reliance Industries Ltd. started testing its online shopping portal three days after Facebook Inc. said it will invest $5.7 billion in digital assets controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani. JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, went live in three neighborhoods surrounding Mumbai, leveraging a deal that […]
New Delhi: Donation platform GiveIndia on Tuesday said it has launched the ‘India COVID Response Fund’ (ICRF) with initial donations worth Rs 75 crore to support the on-ground COVID relief efforts being carried out by its network of verified non-profits. Some of the early donors to the fund include the […]
MUMBAI: Skanray, the Bangalore based exporter of ventilators is drawing plans to locally assemble nearly 1 lakh ventilators in the country as India prepares to gear up its emergency situation in an event of the large number of critically ill covid-19 patients. Skanray is working out the design with Defence […]
Rome: Views of empty streets, shuttered shops and a heavy silence greeted Italians from their windows on Saturday morning as the country spends its first weekend under lockdown in a bid to contain its coronavirus outbreak. Since Monday the country, which has recorded 17,660 infections and 1,266 deaths from the […]