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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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“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 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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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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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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Modi Urges Citizens To Stay Home As Virus Spreads

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to citizens to stay home and avoid panic buying, even as India outlined plans to…

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Ramdev’s Tips To Ward Off Covid-19 Anger Health Professionals

Indian healthcare professionals are questioning claims by popular yoga guru and entrepreneur Baba Ramdev who said he has found an…

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India Proposes Regional Fund To Fight Covid-19

India proposed setting up an emergency fund to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in South Asia on Sunday, with New…

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Farooq Abdullah Freed After Months Of Detention

Indian authorities on Friday ordered the release of Kashmir’s most prominent politician, Farooq Abdullah, one of dozens of leaders held…

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Holi Celebrations Muted Amid Coronavirus Fears

The festival of Holi was subdued on Tuesday with fears of the coronavirus putting a dampener on the usually boisterous…

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Women’s Participation In Workforce Falls To 18%

Women workforce in the country fell to 18 per cent in 2019 from 37 per cent in 2006, non-government organisation…

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U.P. Ordered To Remove ‘Name & Shame’ Billboards

The top court in India’s most populous state ordered authorities on Monday to remove large displays of the names, pictures…

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Covid-19: Schools Shut, New Travel Curbs In Place

The government has shut all primary schools in the capital New Delhi until the end of March on Thursday and…

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Experts Daunted By Covid-19’s South Asia Spread

India has ramped up the screening of travelers to keep the coronavirus (Covid-19) at bay but a flurry of new…

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Delhi’s Displaced Scrape A Living After Deadly Riots

Mohammed Anees fled his home in northeastern New Delhi last week as Hindu-Muslim clashes erupted in his area, escaping with…

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Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply To 29, Hit Paytm

The total number of known coronavirus cases in India rose sharply to 29 on Wednesday, including 16 Italian tourists who…

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India Curbs Drug Exports As Covid-19 Fears Grow

India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, has restricted the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made…

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