Studies and surveys showed that approximately 95% firms were impacted negatively due to national lockdown imposed in April 2020, 70% of businesses remained disrupted till August 2020. Even after progressive unlocking, reports suggest that almost 40% businesses remained interrupted till the end of February 2021. One of the prime drivers behind growth story of Indian economy is SMEs. over the past few decades, SME sector, comprising of service industry, manufacturing, packaging, infrastructure, food processing, IT and chemicals has developed as the most dynamic source of growth of Indian economy. In recent years the MSMEs sector has shown higher growth rate than industrial sector. This sector not only offers huge employment but also contributes in regional balance by generating industrialisation to remote rural and backward areas. According to MSME Ministry data released on May 16, 2021, there are around 6.3 crore MSMEs in India which contributes approximately 29% towards country’s GDP by its national and international trade. This sector account for nearly 50 per cent of the country’s exports. As per national sample survey 73 Round (2015-16) MSME sector has offered around 11.10 crore jobs out of which 3.6 crore have been in manufacturing sector, 3.9 crore in trade and 3.7 crore in other services. Considering all these facts and figures, it is quite understood that for achieving the target of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025 growth of SMEs is crucial for India. The MSMEs sector has been one of the most vulnerable sectors during pandemic because of its size, scale of business and availability of financial resources.

The term banking has evolved over a period of time. The terms like digital banking, e- banking are commonly heard and used nowadays. The technological changes have paved the way for accommodating these changes. With the electronic medium of banking, the transactions can be done out with lots of ease, speed and convenience. This study is being done to know the perspective of respondents towards the electronic mode of banking especially during pandemic times. For the purpose of research, the primary data has been collected by administering the questionnaire, to gauge the awareness about e- banking and to analyse the level of acceptance, its advantages and challenges associated with e-banking especially during pandemic.

Blockchain is a cutting-edge technology that will be used to develop novel solutions in a variety of fields, including healthcare. In the healthcare system, a Blockchain network is used to store and share patient data across systems of hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, and clinicians. In the medical profession, blockchain applications can bring transparency, which will avoid patients leading towards dangerous consequences. As a result, it has the potential to increase the performance, security, and transparency of medical data sharing in the healthcare system. Medical institutions have started using this technology to obtain insight and improve the analysis of medical records. In this paper, studies of how blockchain vendors provide solutions to the problems faced by healthcare industries are discussed.

Covid - 19 has shown to be a hazardous epidemic because it affected everyone in different ways, including physically, mentally, and financially. If we consider the service sector, it was also affected in many ways during the pandemic. Some service industries were completely shut down associated with illness, but banking industries continued to operate during the pandemic because banking is one of the most important sectors, and finance is said to be the country's blood. The financial sector's operation is critical. So, the goal of my research is to discover what problems bank personnel encounter during a pandemic crisis. The research region is the Badlapur Thane District, where I have included both public and private sector banks to determine the impact of Covid 19 on bank employees work culture.

Coronavirus pandemic has engulfed the entire world since late 2019. The entire world is currently facing multifarious problems due to the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic. The sudden outbreak of a pandemic exposed the unpreparedness of the healthcare system in dealing with such situations. In the near future, Blockchain technology can prove to be very useful in managing the Coronavirus pandemic. A blockchain is a database that has data stored in a block in encrypted format in decentralized and distributed networks. These blocks of blockchain are chained together in chronological order. Digital assets are distributed rather than replicated or relocated, resulting in an immutable record of the object. Blockchain technology can play an important role in the healthcare system. Implementing innovative technology like blockchain in modern healthcare systems can prove to be very effective in the planning of operations and resource deployment. In this paper, the use of blockchain in solving problems that arose due to the Coronavirus pandemic is discussed.

The world's health systems are facing an unprecedented predicament due to a pandemic induced by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The COVID-19 pandemic has a negative impact on public health, local communities, and government. Technology has ushered in huge improvements in many facets of our life, including improved information interchange, data presentation, and medical resource management through telemedicine. Internet of Medical Things, drones, robots, UVs, Global Positioning System, and Bluetooth are examples of cutting-edge technologies that can help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. In this paper, Internet of Medical Things

The paper analyses the impact of the pandemic on the banking sector in India and policy measures undertaken by Reserve Bank of India to mitigate the adverse effect covid-19. The pandemic has made a tremendous impact on life as well as business of the world's largest democracy. Though, the magnitude of impact on different sectors varies, none of the sectors are completely out of the reach of its repercussions. The battle with COVID-19 is not only to save the life of the people but also to ensure that the banking channels are working round the clock to cater to the needs of the public as well as financial market. This paper is attempted to study the impact of RBI’s policy measures on banking sector in India

The term CSR was coined first in 1953, American economist Howard Bowen coined the term and he is often referred to as the father of CSR. In the mid to late 1800, many industrialists donated the funds for the improvement in the field of education and scientific research, but there was no such name given for such helping, it was informal. The main purpose of corporate social responsibility is to give back to the community, take a part in charitable causes and provide positive social value. Many private sectors, Public sectors and service sectors contributed to support needy people during Covid-19 in terms of cash or kind. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the various definitions and descriptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), focusing on the deployment of CSR practices during the Covid- 19 pandemic by the selected manufacturing sector in India. The data collected for the study were from secondary sources. The outcome of the study revealed that the majority of the selected Indian manufacturing companies have undertaken various preventive and mitigation measures for enabling the stakeholders to tide over the crisis.

Start-ups play a key role in economies, but the COVID-19 crisis is reducing their creation, challenging their survival, and limiting their growth. Business registrations have been dropping significantly in recent months and a missing generation of new firms has significant implications for economic outcomes, notably employment. This point argues that these can be mitigated by taking steps to support existing start-ups and the creation of new firms. Policymakers should tackle short-term challenges, supporting short-term liquidity and availability of funding, but also and importantly foster the ability of start-ups to grasp new business opportunities. Policies that reduce barriers to entrepreneurship provide incentives for start-ups, and boost entrepreneurial potential could help speed up the recovery and preserve aggregate employment in the long term.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that is already having devastating impacts on the world economy – both directly and through necessary measures to contain the spread of the disease. These impacts are also being felt by the food and agriculture sector. The COVID-19 pandemic likewise raises the caution on the earnest need to change the world's food frameworks. Around the world, food frameworks stay a driver of environmental change and the planet's unfurling natural emergency. This emergency can fill in as a defining moment to rebalance and change our food frameworks, making them more comprehensive, manageable and versatile. As per the International Labor Organization (ILO), the ascent in joblessness as a result of Covid-19 could be up to 25 million around the world.

Due closure of retail stores, because of lockdown and consumers' concern over getting infected to corona virus in public resulted into drastic increase in online trade. To stop the spread of COVID-19, the Indian government implemented a stringent national lockdown on March 24, 2020. The 12-week lockdown caused severe impact on daily routine of all individuals. Later many small lockdowns and restrictions also had a great impact on daily life style of people. The two main strategies used to counteract the effects of the corona virus were social withdrawal and isolation. People all throughout the world have been avoiding public spaces because certain countries are on lockdown and businesses are closed. The present paper aims at studying the impact of COVID-19 on daily necessities and consumption pattern in Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation Area of Maharashtra.

Throughout the year, India is a significant gold market, notably during festival and wedding seasons. People purchase gold for a wide range of reasons, which include investment, wedding jewellery, religious offerings to deities, and luxury. The Covid -19 pandemic had a significant impact on all sectors, including the gold market, by 2020. Given the economic scenario during the Covid-19 pandemic, the purpose of this paper is to investigate customer sentiments toward gold purchases in India. The researcher collected primary data for the research study.

In the year 2019 a novel contagious disease, COVID-19 was identified. Due to its infectious nature, this disease in no time became a global Pandemic, hence, imposition of curfew/lockdown was the only feasible solution to break the chain of transmission and stop the spread of COVID-19. The imposition of lockdown negatively impacted the economic and social front, but it resulted in the slowdown of the anthropogenic activities, which offered some extra space for the restoration of the environment. As human emptied the streets, nature took the control, resulting in cleaner air and water, less noise pollution and relief for the wildlife. Human activities had been impacting the environment and degrading its quality. The economic, commercial and industrial activities were causing the pollution of air, water and soil, generation of plastic waste, threats to wildlife, etc. The anthropogenic activities were prominently responsible for disturbing the various environmental parameters but, the lockdown brought succour to this problem. This study focuses on the environmental relief observed after COVID-19 lockdown and how the environmental quality of India improved post-pandemic

History can teach us about the relationship between pandemics and migration. There is always an action-reaction phenomenon involving the two. Migrations and mobility in general, foster epidemics and pandemics, which in turn call for restrictions on the freedom of movement. Through invasions, trade, wars and pilgrimages, the movement of people has always brought disease in faraway parts of the globe. At times migrants are also forced to leave their native places in search of better opportunities and earnings leaving behind their families. Epidemics and pandemics have almost always been used as opportunities to impose restrictions on new entries in several countries. Covid-19 pandemic was no exception to this trend in recent times. An attempt is made in this paper to discuss the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the mobility of the migrants across the globe. Population migration are potentially both affected by the impact of pandemic and were part of the response to the pandemic

In this article, we will discuss how health is crucial and we should take time out of our busy schedules to look after ourselves. Being mentally and physically fit is the greatest asset one could have. No matter how wealthy a person might be if he is sick or diseased, he cannot enjoy any luxury. During the pandemic, people started taking their health seriously and we could feel the shift from materialist things to the more valuable thing that is life. The government put forth many provisions to prevent and mitigate covid, such as isolation centres, providing subsidized food, medicines, transportation and the development of vaccines. Though we as a nation tried our best to handle the global pandemic, but we all felt the cracks in our health care sector. And should put forth measures to bring in advancement in this sector and to prepare ourselves for upcoming future pandemics.

The pandemic has disproportionately affected women. But you may not have realized the scope of the hit. It’s extraordinarily significant—a tremendous toll. Women’s experiences at home, their health, their work and economic wellbeing have all been negatively affected. And the pandemic has impeded women in the present, but also has negatively affected their futures. But beyond these negative effects, organizations can take steps to make a positive impact. Here’s what you must know about the scale of the damage and the potential responses

South African literature is incomplete without European colonization, the Apartheid era and post-apartheid writings. Many authors tried to depict contemporary South Africa and the loss of human values. J.M. Coetzee as a prominent writer create an embodiment of injustice, corruption, loss of human identity and racism that existed in contemporary society. His novel Dusklands 1974 is an eye opener to the world, it put forth the idea of ‘injustice’ and bypassing the values of a society can cost the other way round and may come back as a curse in your own life. The novel represents South African colonization, exploitation and contemporary lifestyle with racial injustice, atrocities, and loss of human values in the society. This paper is an effort to comprehend the pain of natives who experienced colonization, dominance, and racial attacks.

During the 16th and 17th Centuries the trade increased many fold in India. The shipping industry’s progress played a significant role in it. The topographical conditions of India also played an important part in it. India's long coastline and its connectivity with south-east Asian nations from the Coromandel Coast provided ideal conditions for European powers to do trade. The Europeans were in search of spices got attracted towards the East. India's trade relations with Europe became friendlier in the 17th century. India's imports consisted of three categories- precious metals & stones, raw materials and luxuries items like spices & perfumes. Later the new items traded with the Europeans were Indigo, cotton, saltpetre, lac, rice, sugar, raw silk etc.