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Auto majors see falling sales in Feb

-The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Sunday reported a 1.1 per cent decline in sales at 1,47,110 units in February.Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL)  also reported a 10.3 per cent decline in total sales at 48,910 units while Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) recorded a 42 per cent decline in total sales at 32,476 units in the same month. 

-However, major automobile manufacturers Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Toyota Kirloskar Motor do not see any immediate impact on their production schedules due to disruption in supply of components from plants located in coronavirus-hit China.

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Coronavirus spread puts densely populated India on high alert

Apart from its sheer size, India is cause for particular worry because of the density of its population: 420 people live on each square kilometer (about 0.4 of a square mile), compared with 148 per square kilometer in China. Places like Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, or even a typical Indian household containing extended families, can facilitate contact with virus-bearing droplets emitted by breathing, talking, coughing or sneezing.

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Sensex nosedives 1,448 pts,Investors lose Rs 5.50lakh crore

Even as the Indian shares sank on Friday for a sixth straight session, capping their worst week in more than a decade, over fears that the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak could trigger a global recession.the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the October-December quarter of 2019 (Q3 of FY20) stood at 4.7 per cent, showed official data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday. 

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March-May period likely to be warmer than normal: IMD

It is likely to be warmer than normal by 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius over Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi (HCD), west Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, east and west Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, north interior and coastal Karnataka, Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.

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If issues not resolved, Coronavirus will pose challenges to economy in 3 weeks: Sitharaman

On the impact of coronavirus on the economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said there is no need to immediately press the “panic button”, but admitted that it may get challenging if the issues prolong for another two or three weeks, citing her conversations with the industry players over the last few days.

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