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Explainer: Do children spread COVID-19?

As countries begin to emerge from shutdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, the issue of how the virus affects children…

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Strongest Cyclone In Over A Decade Slams Into India

A powerful cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Wednesday with heavy rain, wind and waves as millions of people were…

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Lakhs Evacuated As India Braces For Super Cyclone

India and Bangladesh evacuated around half a million people out of the way of the most powerful storm in a…

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India To Help Migrants Leave Cities, But Infections Mount

India will run more special trains and buses to allow millions of distressed migrant workers to leave big cities, the…

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Trump Threatens Permanent Freeze Of WHO Funding

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did…

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Long-Lasting Global Recession Likely: WEF Report

Risk managers expect a prolonged global recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a report by the World Economic…

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Cash-Strapped Economic Plan Unlikely To Soften Covid-19 Blow

India’s $266 billion economic rescue package rests mostly on boosting company credit but contains scant new public spending, tax breaks…

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India Covid-19 Infections Surge Past 100,000, Deaths Top 3,000

Coronavirus cases in India reached 100,000 on Tuesday, matching the number of intensive care unit beds in the country, while…

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Outbreak At Factory Shows Challenges Of Easing Lockdown

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO suspended operations at a recently re-opened plant in India after workers tested positive for the coronavirus,…

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India Evacuates Thousands Threatened By East Coast Cyclone

India began evacuating thousands of villagers and halted port operations ahead of a cyclone expected to hit its east coast…

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Why India’s Migrant Labourers Give Me Hope

by ANONYMOUS I have lived in India for the past five years. When I left my country to work in…

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India To Privatise State-Run Companies & Halt Fresh Insolvencies

India said on Sunday it would privatise state-run companies in non-strategic sectors and stop fresh insolvency cases for a year,…

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India Extends Lockdown To May 31, To Relax Rules In Some Areas

India on Sunday extended a nationwide lockdown to May 31, as cases exceeded 90,000 and further clashes erupted between police…

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People In Wuhan Fear Covid-19 Testing Could Rekindle Disease

As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the…

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23 Migrants On Way Home Die In UP Road Accident

A truck crammed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown crashed in northern India…

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India’s Coronavirus Infections Surpass China

India’s total novel corornavirus cases rose to 85,940 on Saturday, taking it past China, where the pandemic originated last year,…

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Delayed Survey Data Blurs India’s Covid-19 Picture

India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its…

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Clogged Cooling System Likely Cause Of Gas Leak In AP: Investigators

A clogged cooling system was the likely cause of a temperature surge in a storage tank which led to a…

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Global Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 300,000

Global coronavirus deaths passed 300,000 on Thursday as infections approached 4.5 million, according to a Reuters tally, with the United…

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Free Foodgrains For Millions Of Migrant Workers

India will provide free foodgrains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer…

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Farmers Gather Record Wheat Crop, But Can’t Move It

Late last month, Sukrampal had to beg and borrow farmhands from nearby villages to gather his part of the country’s…

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ILO Warns Indian States On Scrapping Workers’ Rights

The U.N. labour agency urged Indian states thinking of relaxing workers’ rights to help industry survive the coronavirus to consult…

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India Follows China’s Lead To Widen Use Of Covid-19 Tracing App

India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, raising fears that the world’s…

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India Launches Contact-Tracing App For JioPhones

India’s technology ministry said on Thursday it had rolled out a version of its Bluetooth contact-tracking app for 5 million…

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COVID-19 Pandemic: UN Warns Of Global Mental Health Crisis

A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into…

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