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Covid-19: RBI Cuts Rates As Distress Mounts Across South Asia

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slashed interest rates in an emergency move on Friday to counter the economic fallout…

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Bruised Economy To Be Battered Further By Covid-19: Poll

India’s already-slowing economy weakened to at least an eight-year low this quarter and will slow even more sharply in the…

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Migrant Workers Face Long Walk Home Amid Covid-19 Lockdown

After India imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the plywood factory near Uttar…

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$23-bn Eco Stimulus To Help Poor Hit By Lockdown

India announced on Thursday a 1.7-trillion-rupee ($22.6-billion) economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and food security measures to give…

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Coronavirus Cases Up Despite Immense Lockdown

Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services…

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Eat It: Hanoi Chef Spreads Joy With ‘Coronaburger’

You’ve got to eat it, to beat it: That’s the philosophy of one Hanoi chef who is attempting to boost…

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“Solidarity With India, Lockdown Comprehensive, Robust”: UN

The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the world body's…

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India Struggles With Coronavirus Shutdown

India’s 1.3 billion people were under lockdown on Wednesday to prevent an explosion of coronavirus cases as the government struggled…

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Gunmen Kill 25 In Raid On Afghanistan’s Sikh Complex

Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25…

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Outsourcing Industry Struggles With Work-From-Home Scenario

As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centers and IT services firms that function as the…

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Scramble For Supplies As 3-Week Covid-19 Lockdown Begins

Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday in a struggle for essential items after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered…

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India Faces Spike In Covid-19 Cases, Says Study

India could face between around 100,000 and 1.3 million confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus by…

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India In Lockdown As Covid-19 Appears In Small Towns

Police enforced lockdowns across large parts of India on Tuesday, with curfews in some places, as health officials warned that…

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“India Led World In Eradicating 2 Pandemics, Should Show The Way”: WHO

The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael J Ryan, on Tuesday said that India has a tremendous…

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Delhi Police Clear Out Shaheen Bagh Protest Site

Police in New Delhi broke up the longest-running protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s citizenship law on Tuesday, citing a…

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Covid-19 Lockdown: India’s Poor Fear For Future

Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai’s streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meagre…

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Stocks Plummet Over 12% On Coronavirus Fears

Indian shares sank more than 12% by afternoon on Monday as trading resumed after the market’s second halt this month,…

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Canada, Australia Withdraw From Tokyo Olympics

Canada and Australia said they would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the Games went ahead as…

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Covid-19: PM Modi Tells Indians To Save Themselves

Streets were deserted in Delhi on Monday and office buildings shuttered as a lockdown to halt the spread of the…

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People Cheer Emergency Workers During Covid-19 Lockdown

Indians came out onto their balconies and stood near open windows to clap, clang metal vessels and ring bells on…

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Covid-19: Delhi, Scores Of Districts Under Lockdown

New Delhi will be under lockdown until March 31, the national capital’s government announced on Sunday, seeking to keep citizens…

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Covid-19: South Asian Govts. Impose Curfews, Border Controls

Bangladesh tightened border controls while Sri Lanka arrested more than two dozen people for violating a nationwide curfew as part…

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Google Launches Coronavirus Website In The US

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Saturday it launched a United States-focused website with information about coronavirus guidance and testing, as…

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Trump Trying To ‘Shift Blame’ For Pandemic: China

Beijing accused US President Donald Trump on March 20 of trying to "shift the blame" for the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic…

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World “Paying Big Price” As China Hid Covid-19 Info: Trump

The world is "paying a big price" for China hiding the initial information on the deadly coronavirus, US President Donald…

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