Daily News Monitor: 8 April 2020

HEADLINES:

1. PM Modi to discuss Covid-19 shutdown with Parliament floor leaders today

2. Covid-19 crisis may drag 400 mn Indian workers further into poverty: ILO

3. E-commerce firms ask govt to provide curfew passes valid for 6 months

4. India takes US to WTO's safeguard committee for hiking duties on steel, aluminium derivatives

5. Commerce ministry terminates anti-dumping duty probe against chemical from Saudi Arabia

6. Coronavirus in India: Centre mulls longer COVID-19 lockdown

7. UAE assures additional LPG supplies to meet free LPG demand of India

8. Gujarat companies to export hydroxychloroquine to US: Vijay Rupani

9. Commerce ministry creates online platform for issuance of 'certificate of origin' for exporter

10. SAARC Development Fund allocates $5 million for Covid-19 projects

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