Daily News Monitor: 7 August 2020

HEADLINES:

1. Microsoft in talks to invest in ShareChat

2. Railways plan to merge different cadres into single service likely by November

3. Focussed inter-ministerial group to address Japanese investors' issues: Piyush Goyal

4. Girish Chandra Murmu to be new CAG of India

5. Embassy Office Parks REIT to invest Rs 1,500 cr to develop office spaces

6. RBI introduces ASISO facility to help banks manage liquidity in times of COVID-19

7. Serum Institute of India, Novavax in covid vaccine deal, may produce 100 crore doses

8. RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 4%, scope for a rate cut later

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