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After Reliance unfurled the flag with Jio Platforms, many large traditional Indian corporates, including the Tatas, are looking to launch their own platform, or super app, as part of doing business in a digitised world. But have these models been successful? Venkatesh Ganesh gives us more details.

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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India or the FSSAI is ready to launch its cloud-based and upgraded food safety compliance online platform across the country from November 1. The new system, called the Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS), has been operational in nine States and Union Territories since June. It will serve as one-point stop for all engagement of an FBO with the department for any regulatory compliance transaction.

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Over the next five days, isolated heavy rainfall is forecast over South India except over Kerala and Lakshadweep with prospects of heavy-to-very heavy rainfall over Telangana on Monday and Tuesday; Tamil Nadu on Monday; Coastal Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday; Coastal and North Interior Karnataka on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Just as fears of over-the-top (OTT) platforms sounding the death-knell for theatres amid the pandemic were being allayed, the platforms are now in the spotlight for potentially rendering English pay-TV linear channels redundant.

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This week, we review the newly launched OnePlus 8T, which has been tweaked to sit between the OnePlus 8 and its Pro variant. The 8T is smaller than the 8Pro and almost the same size as the OnePlus 8.  It’s a 6.55-inch 2400x1080p AMOLED and has a 120Hz refresh rate. Indeed, it has been loaded with with specs, but is it the right phone for you?

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The naval version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired from INS Chennai, a stealth destroyer of the Indian Navy in the Arabian Sea on October 18. 

India’s Covid-19 caseload mounted to 74,94,551 with 61,871 new infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries surged to 65,97,209 pushing the recovery rate to 88.03 per cent.

There are 7,83,311 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprise 10.45 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5 . It went past 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28, and crossed 70 lakh on October 11.

Moving on to international news, in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office. Ardern’s liberal Labour Party got 49 per cent of the vote, crushing the conservative National Party, which got 27 per cent. Ardern said the margin of the victory exceeded their expectations.

Retail inflation may have soared to an eight-month high in September with food inflation close to double-digits, but experts think that it can soften in coming months due to improved supply and base effect.

The main pain point in CPI inflation has been food and perishables and, in fact, nearly 85 per cent of the spike in CPI inflation in September is estimated to have come from perishables.  fuel and lighting with a weight of 6.84 per cent in the CPI inflation basket will behave, is difficult to predict as of now. However, we don't know how fuel and lighting, which has weight of 6.84 per cent in the CPI inflation basket, will behave.

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In a bid to promote domestic manufacturing, the government has banned the import of completely built units of air-conditioners with refrigerants. Air-conditioner imports have been on the radar of the government for some time and had been identified as among the priority sectors for reduction of imports in-line with the government’s Self-Reliant India initiative.

The government’s move is also expected to give a boost to capacities dedicated to third-party manufacturing in the country. However, experts pointed out that most companies that make ACs in India are heavily reliant on imports for critical components such as compressors from markets such as China.

The US presidential election is now less than 20 days away and if the polls are right, Democratic nominee Joe Biden will sweep the election. A poll of polls by FiveThirtyEight shows that Biden is leading US President Donald Trump by 10.3 points, while a poll by ABC News-Washington Post shows that Biden has opened a lead of 12 points. Biden, who has been leading through out this election cycle, is increasing his lead over the president.

Podcast | Race to the White House: Decoding Trump's campaign

Does this mean that he will win? What are the biggest worries for Trump? Can the president do to make a comeback or is it too late? All this and much more in this episode of the Race to the White House.

It has been seven months since the Covid-19 pandemic struck India. Enterprises have been encouraged to alter their revenue models and many operations have been carried out remotely. This has raised pertinent questions with regards to the future of Startup enterprises in the real estate space. Zolo's Co-Founder, Nikhil Sikri, tells us more about the best way forward despite the challenges.

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