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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
COVID BOOSTER FINE PRINT
LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
GLOBAL ECONOMY
AROUND THE WORLD
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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 |
| 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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