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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Major Credit Line For Small Businesses, Lenders Unveiled
The government said on Wednesday it will offer nearly $60 billion of loan guarantees for small businesses, shadow banks and...
Some New Yorkers Find Solace In Empty City Streets
Harold Quintana sat nearly alone on a recent spring morning in New York City’s Bryant Park, jotting down notes at...
India Condemns “Barbaric Terrorist Attacks” In Afghanistan
India on Tuesday strongly condemned separate terror attacks targeting a maternity hospital, a funeral and a military check post in...
LG Chem Sends Delegation To Probe Deadly Gas Leak
South Korea’s LG Chem said on Wednesday that it had sent a delegation to India to investigate the cause of...
