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As PM Urges ‘Lockdowns Only As Last Resort’, What Economists Say

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who last year imposed a strict lockdown on short notice, has asked states to avoid shutting…

3 years ago
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Rallies, Religious Gatherings Aggravate Worst Covid Surge

India’s COVID-19 cases have soared 13-fold in barely two months, a vicious second wave propelled by open disregard for safety…

3 years ago
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Kashmir’s Copper Craftsmen Hope For Better Times After Lockdown

The end of lockdown brought some relief for Kashmir’s traditional copper utensil makers, renowned for their immaculate craftsmanship, but their…

3 years ago
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A Year After Covid-19’s Arrival, India’s Active Cases Fall

India reported its lowest active number of novel coronavirus cases in seven months on Saturday, a year after the virus…

3 years ago
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A Year After Wuhan Lockdown, A World Still Deep In Crisis

Nearly a year to the day after the Chinese city of Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that…

3 years ago
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Global Covid-19 Deaths Hit 900,000 As Cases Surge In India

The global death toll from the coronavirus passed 900,000 on Wednesday, as worldwide cases topped 27.7 million, according to a…

4 years ago
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After Wave Of Attacks, Kashmiri Leaders Moved To Safety

India has shifted scores of village and municipality leaders, mostly from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, to secure locations…

4 years ago
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India Posts Record Fiscal Deficit As Covid-19 Hits Economy

India’s fiscal deficit touched a record $88.5 billion in the April-June quarter, 83.2% of the target for the whole of…

4 years ago
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Modi Says Coronavirus Risk Persists In India

India needs to be “extra vigilant” as the novel coronavirus threat persists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a public…

4 years ago
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India Tops A Million Covid-19 Cases As Pandemic Hits Villages

India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases, behind only…

4 years ago
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Ambitious Plan For Small Businesses Does Little To Save Them

India re-opened for business in June after months of lockdown but for thousands of small entrepreneurs in the town of…

4 years ago
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Graduate Teaches Delhi Slum Kids Sans Access To Online Learning

In a squalid slum below a partially-built flyover in eastern Delhi, Satyendra Pal stands by a whiteboard propped against a…

4 years ago
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Army Called In To Run Facilities In Delhi As Cases Surge

India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak began, and the government called…

4 years ago
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RBI Cuts Rates Again To Soften Coronavirus Blow

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday slashed its key policy rate for a second time this year in…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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Trains To Restart Despite Rising Covid-19 Cases

Tens of thousands of people have booked out seats on trains that are due to restart on Tuesday after a…

4 years ago
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India Looks To Ease Lockdown Even As Covid-19 Infections Jump

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the country would look to ease a nearly seven-week lockdown aimed at preventing…

4 years ago
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India’s Coronavirus Cases Jump Past 50,000

Coronavirus cases in India rose past 50,000, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, with the pace of new infections showing…

4 years ago
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Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 1 Million

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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  • Politics & Society

Nine-year-old Among Nearly 150 Children Briefly Held In Kashmir: Court Probe

Police in Kashmir have detained 144 children, including a nine-year-old, since early August when the government revoked the disputed region’s…

5 years ago

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