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    Lockdown, Day 53: Reforms to reboot India

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    16 May, 2020 | 07:07 PM IST


    Lockdown, Day 53: Reforms to reboot India

    Round 4 of Nirmala Sitharaman's Covid package promised seamless air travel, end of coal monopoly, Make-in-India weapons and an entry for Elon Musk in Isro.

    Eight sectors saw reforms in her fourth tranche, part of Modi's Rs 20 lakh crore reboot for a virus-hit economy, on a day when India surpassed China's Coronavirus case score.

    Track the latest updates from the day...



    COUNT SO FAR
      Maharashtra reports 29,100 cases, toll at 1,068
      Delhi reports 438 new cases, total count 9,333
      Rajasthan reports 4,924 cases, 125 casualties
      Bihar's tally reaches 1,079 with 46 fresh cases
      Indore's cases go up to 2,378, toll 99
      CISF reports 3 more cases, total count 118
      Andhra reports 2,205 cases and 49 deaths

    World India
    Tally Toll Tally Toll
    45,63,458 3,08,165 85,940 2,752
    COVID BOOSTER FINE PRINT
      Commercial mining in coal sector on revenue sharing basis
      Rs 50,000 cr allotted for coal evacuation infra
      A seamless composite exploration-mining-production regime
      A mineral index for different minerals
      FDI limit in defence manufacturing raised from 49% to 74%
      Air space to be rationalised to save flying time and fuel
      6 more airports to be auctioned for pvt participation
      Discoms in Union Territories to be privatised
      Research reactor in PPP mode for production of medical isotopes
      Boosting social infrastructurewith a total outlay of Rs 8100 cr
      Pvt firms allowed to use Isro facilities


    LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN
      24 migrants killed in road accident in UP's Auraiya
      National Population Register 2021 postponed in UP
      MP govt declares nine districts COVID-19 free
      UP withdraws its order of 12-hour shifts for workers
      After a week, booze sale resumes in Tamil Nadu
      Railways operates 1,074 Shramik trains


    BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
      Lockdown mints more than a million new stock trader
      Non-migrant workers in Delhi see income drop by at least 57%
      RIL's Rs 53,125 crore rights issue to kick off on May 20
      Tata Chemicals Q4: PAT down 48% to Rs 198 crore


    GLOBAL ECONOMY
      Warren Buffett dumps most of Goldman stake
      Fitch lowers outlook on France debt rating to negative
      Italy to allow travel to and from abroad from June 3
      U.S. House passes $3 trillion coronavirus aid bill
      Virus claims another US retailer: 118-year-old J.C. Penney
      Air Canada to lay off half its workforce


    AROUND THE WORLD
      US records 87,493 deaths with 14,42,924 cases
      Russia reports 9,200 new infections
      Germany cases rises to 1,73,772, toll at 7,881
      France death toll tops 27,500
      China reports 21 new cases
      Kazakhstan third in Asia to lift emergency


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