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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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British PM Johnson Has Coronavirus, Self-Isolates

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus and is self-isolating at his Downing Street residence but…

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Coronavirus Call Centres Set Up To Stop Stampede To Hospitals

Health authorities set up coronavirus call centres in urban centres across India on Friday, scrambling to stop people flooding hospitals…

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‘Stigmatised’: Covid-19 ‘Heroes’ Come Under Attack

Doctors, nurses and other frontline workers in the fight against coronavirus in India, who have been hailed as "heroes", have…

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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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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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