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The Religious Retreat That Sparked A Major Covid-19 Manhunt

It was late on Sunday night when officials in Andhra Pradesh received the alert. Federal authorities said they needed to…

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Modi Plans Staggered Exit From Covid-19 Lockdown

India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle…

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Pak Court Overturns Conviction in Daniel Pearl Killing

A Pakistani court has commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of…

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Cattle Being Fed Strawberries As Lockdown Hits Transport

As hundreds of millions of Indians remain locked down to stem the spread of coronavirus, some of its cattle are…

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Stranded Migrant Workers Struggle Under Lockdown

India’s 21-day lockdown to fight the coronavirus has left hundreds of migrant workers stranded in Mumbai, with no money, little…

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Infection Spikes With Search On For 9,000 Exposed To Delhi Cluster

India reported its biggest single day increase in coronavirus cases as officials on Thursday raced to track down some 9,000…

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Covid-19 Patient Tries To Commit Suicide: Doctor

A person from Nizamuddin's markaz infected with the coronavirus tried to commit suicide at a hospital in Delhi, a doctor…

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“Some Of Us Will Die”: Homeless Stranded By Covid-19 Lockdown

In a densely-packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and…

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Racing To Stop Covid-19, India Scours Mosques

As coronavirus cases rose across densely-populated South Asia, authorities scoured mosques in northern India on Wednesday trying to trace people…

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Shortage Of Farm Labour Amid Covid-19 Lockdown

A severe shortage of labour, triggered by India’s 21-day lockdown to rein in a coronavirus pandemic, will hobble harvesting of…

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China Bans Big Crowd Events To Curb 2nd Wave Of Infections

Sports bodies in China have been banned from organising events that will draw large crowds until further notice due to…

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Sensex, Nifty Fall As Covid-19 Cases Rise Amid Lockdown

Indian shares fell on Wednesday as the number of coronavirus cases increased in Asia’s third-largest economy even as a 21-day…

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Covid-19 Epidemic ‘Far From Over’ In Asia: WHO Official

The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the…

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Crackdown On Muslim Group Linked To Covid-19 Cases

Authorities sealed off the headquarters of a Muslim missionary group on Tuesday and ordered an investigation into accusations that it…

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Doctors Fight Covid-19 With Raincoats, Helmets

Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the…

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Internet Curbs In Kashmir Hamper Covid-19 Fight

The Health Ministry on Monday invited doctors in Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators - critical equipment…

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Outrage As Migrants Sprayed With Disinfectant

Health workers caused outrage on Monday by spraying a group of migrants with disinfectant, amid fears that a large-scale movement…

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Tear Gas Fired At Workers Defying Covid-19 Lockdown

Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against…

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No Plan To Extend Lockdown As The Poor Struggle

India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on…

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Sensex, Nifty Fall As Covid-19 Cases Cross 1,000

Indian shares edged lower on Monday morning as the number of coronavirus infections in Asia’s third-largest economy showed no signs…

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Vitriol & Violence: A Covid-19 Death Exposes Paranoia

When Satyaki Mitra’s father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn’t especially worried. He told…

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Covid-19: Modi Seeks ‘Forgiveness’ From India’s Poor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his…

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India Needs Atleast 38mn Masks To Fight Covid-19

India needs at least 38 million masks and 6.2 million pieces of personal protective equipment as it confronts the spread…

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Infosys Techie Held For FB Post Asking People To Sneeze In Public

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Friday arrested a techie working with Infosys in Bengaluru for allegedly spreading hate messages…

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China’s Wuhan Eases Travel Curbs Post Lockdown

The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened…

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