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The government has estimated a gain of nearly ₹37,000 crore during the financial year 2019-20 through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mechanism.

This is more than one-third of the enhanced amount under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) or twice the amount required for the Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana or 50 per cent of the amount provided under the Pradhan Mantri-Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme.

Listen in to know more about DBT and the savings under various Government schemes.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is keeping a close eye on a low pressure area near the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts.

A low-pressure area had developed over the South-West and adjoining South-East Bay of Bengal on Saturday two days earlier than the IMD had predicted. It has become well-marked and is expected to concentrate into a depression over South-West Bay by Monday and intensify further into a cyclone by Tuesday.

The IMD said that the cyclone is likely to move north-westwards and cross the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mahabalipuram on Wednesday noon/afternoon. In this manner, the twin cyclones have catapulted the North-East monsoon to peak form.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested a new global index for the post-Covid-19 world to the G20 group of countries comprising four key elements including the creation of a talent pool, ensuring technology for all, providing transparency in governance, and dealing with `Mother Earth’ with a spirit of trusteeship.

Noting that the Covid-19 pandemic was the biggest challenge the world had faced since World War II, Modi called for decisive action by the G20, not limited to economic recovery, jobs, and trade, but focussing on preserving the planet Earth as people are trustees of humanity’s future.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has sounded a cyclone formation alert over the South-West Arabian Sea with Saturday’s depression had intensified into a deep depression, only a chance away from being a cyclone.

The IMD informed about the formation of a low-pressure area in the bay of Bengal indicating that it would go on to intensify as a depression by Monday evening over the South-West Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu.

In the past 24 hours, India reported over 45,000 new Covid-19 cases with people having recovered at 43,493 and 501 people died.

The total number of active cases in the country is slight above 4.4 lakh cases, with many north and the central Indian States reporting more cases along with Delhi, Kerala, and Maharashtra.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. This maxim seems to apply to India Inc, which seems to have eked out surprisingly good earnings numbers in the July-September 2020 results season.

An analysis of 3,827 listed companies that have reported their numbers (excluding banks and financials) shows a strong sequential improvement in the top-line (up 37 per cent) and net profits (up 470 per cent), thanks to companies slowly resuming operations post the lockdown.

Net profit saw an improvement of 31 per cent year-on-year.

What were the trends underlying this revival? listen in to know more.

A recent survey by YouGov and ACI Worldwide, has found out that digital payments, including e-wallets and UPI payments, were used by 57 per cent of respondents more than twice per week for festival season purchases. This is up from 43 per cent a year ago. It seems like digital payments has become the preferred payment method in a COVID world.

In this exclusive interview, Guru Bhat, VP Omni Channel & Customer Success, GM – PayPal India, helps us understand the changes that the coronavirus has brought to the industry and the various trends that have emerged in the past few months. He also talks about how PayPal is helping SMEs in India grow and expand their business, and the company's plans for India.

Xiaomi has worked hard to be a dominant player in the affordable smartphones market in India. In fact, the same is true of many other products like air purifiers, for example. Though there’s been the occasional premium phone, the company isn’t as well known for being in that segment in the country. But that’s been a matter of strategy, not any shortage of capability. You can see that with the Mi10T Pro, a big fat power-packed phone.

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President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican party have filed over 30 cases at various courts across the US challenging the election results, but all cases have been dismissed by the judges. The President's campaign and allies have alleged that there has been a massive fraud, but they haven't shown any evidence to support their claim.

The Trump campaign had suffered another blow on Friday after the State of Georgia reaffirmed that the Democratic candidate Joe Biden has won the State. With this, Biden has 306 electoral college votes and Trump has only 232 votes. The winner needs only 270 electoral college votes, out of the total 538 votes, to become president. Despite Trump's failure to concede, Biden, the current President-elect, is announcing key members of his team and could even announce some cabinet members soon

There are different rules that apply to different kinds of home properties. The rules change for a self-occupied home and the income from a house that has been rented out should be factored in. In the 10th episode of the series, Jargon Busters, BusinessLine's Satya Sontanam and Gitanjali Diwakar discuss the rules related to home loans in this podcast.

In the fourth episode of Stage Business, we speak with eminent Yakshagana artist Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna from Karnataka. Yakshagana is a folk dance popular in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. At the age of 65, Sanjeeva Suvarna strongly believes that art is not a source of income and believes that this all art forms must be shared with the public and bring happiness.

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Despite the initial hiccups, the 13th edition of the Indian Premier Leagues (IPL) seemed to have taken place smoothly. What were some of the highlights of the event? Is the next edition likely to be more exciting than what the audiences witnessed this time around? BusinessLine's Chitra Narayanan speaks with veteran sports journalist, G Rajaraman in the final episode of 'On the Business Pitch'. 

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