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✒The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to launch a door-to-door survey across all 75 districts to screen and detect ‘hidden’ cases for capping coronavirus spread.
✒The Goa government has allotted land to the consortium of 49 Goan MSME units for setting up Goa Maritime Cluster with an aim to create world class facilities for ship building.
✒IDBI Bank said its board has approved the sale of more than half of the bank''s 48 per cent stake in IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co Ltd (IFLI) to current joint venture partners for Rs 595 crore.
✒State Bank of India (SBI) has sanctioned loans to over 4 lakh accounts under the ₹3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) for MSME sector, hit hard by the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
✒The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced an agreement with the UK to acquire technology to locally produce a vaccine against Covid-19 that is currently being developed by the Universityof Oxford and British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
✒Hitachi and Microsoft have announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, North America and Japan.
✒Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital, the investment firm he co-founded in 2011 with Garry Tan.
✒US-based private equity firm Carlyle Group has agreed to buy a 20% stake in Piramal
Enterprises' pharmaceutical business for about $490 million (around ₹3,700 crore).
✒Amazon announced that it has agreed to acquire California-based self-driving car startup Zoox.
✒As part of its mission to "reach out globally and engage actively", IIT-Kharagpur has collaborated with University of Alberta, Canada, to launch a Joint Doctoral Degree Program (JDP) -- aimed at facilitating academic exchanges between the faculty members and students of the two countries.