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Coronavirus turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India’s schools go online: Reuters
July 29, 2020, 9:10 AM IST
By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI: Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed…
July 29, 2020, 9:10 AM IST
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‘Whitening’ creams undergo a makeover but colorism persists: AP
July 27, 2020, 10:06 AM IST
The world’s biggest cosmetics companies have been selling a fairy tale that often goes something like this: If your husband’s lost interest in you, if your colleagues dismiss you at work, if your talents are…
July 27, 2020, 10:06 AM IST
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TikTok gave rural Indian women fame, fun and more: AFP
July 23, 2020, 9:36 AM IST
When India banned TikTok, it closed a window to the wider world for legions of women outside the big cities that provided fun, fame and even fortune. The government outlawed the video-sharing platform, and 58…
July 23, 2020, 9:36 AM IST
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US should boost trade with India as relations with China fray: Bloomberg
July 20, 2020, 9:11 AM IST
Conflict between China and India has made it urgently necessary for the US to deepen its economic integration with the latter country, through increased trade and investment. On June 15, 20 Indian soldiers and an…
July 20, 2020, 9:11 AM IST
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Trump visa move tears Indian families apart: AFP
July 16, 2020, 10:30 AM IST
The Trump administration last month barred new applications for the H-1B and L employment visas for the rest of the year. It also banned existing visa holders if they were outside the US and required…
July 16, 2020, 10:30 AM IST
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The specter of caste in Silicon Valley: NYT
July 15, 2020, 10:48 AM IST
On June 30, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc, for discrimination. The cause was not, like most workplace discrimination lawsuits, based on race, gender, age or sexual orientation. It…
July 15, 2020, 10:48 AM IST
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India’s banks peddle bad-loan black holes: Reuters
July 14, 2020, 11:53 AM IST
India’s lenders are up against a great unknown. The $31 billion ICICI Bank is among those now looking to raise capital as borrowers avail themselves of an interest holiday on about one-third of the $1.3…
July 14, 2020, 11:53 AM IST
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Why India cases are rising to multiple peaks
July 13, 2020, 12:21 PM IST
In just three weeks, India went from the world’s sixth worst-affected country by the coronavirus to the third, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. India’s fragile health system was bolstered during a stringent…
July 13, 2020, 12:21 PM IST
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Six hours will decide India’s next digital winners: Bloomberg
July 9, 2020, 12:25 PM IST
Time will be the next frontier in India’s digital battlefield; dollars will follow the hours consumers spend online. India has left a void in their day by banning 59 Chinese apps after a border dispute…
July 9, 2020, 12:25 PM IST
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Covid-19 hurting Kerala, economies dependent on money from abroad: Bloomberg
July 7, 2020, 9:58 AM IST
Bobby Ghosh As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Bloomberg Opinion will be running a series of features by our columnists that considers the long-term consequences of the crisis. This column is part of a package on…
July 7, 2020, 9:58 AM IST
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Indian soldiers caught by surprise in China clash, families say: Reuters
July 6, 2020, 9:25 AM IST
By Rupam Jain and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI: Indian soldiers who died in close combat with Chinese troops last month were unarmed and surrounded by a larger force on a steep ridge, Indian government sources,…
July 6, 2020, 9:25 AM IST
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First coronavirus then Trump order split Indian families: AP
July 4, 2020, 9:51 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The March day that his father died, Karan Murgai boarded a plane to India. The coronavirus was spreading, so Murgai’s wife and their two young children stayed home in Dallas. Their separation _…
July 4, 2020, 9:51 AM IST
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India’s war on China apps will have network effect: Reuters
June 30, 2020, 11:00 AM IST
By Una Galani MUMBAI: India is extending a fight with China from the Himalayan mountains into cyberspace. ByteDance’s hugely popular video-streaming app TikTok is among 59, mostly Chinese, ones banned by New Delhi on national…
June 30, 2020, 11:00 AM IST
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It’s hard to be the next China, not impossible: Bloomberg
June 29, 2020, 8:39 AM IST
By Andy Mukherjee Is the global monetary order ready for another reboot? In the 1960s, Japan and Europe exported their way to post-World War II prosperity under the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton…
June 29, 2020, 8:39 AM IST
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India’s economy is ailing from more than Covid-19: Bloomberg
June 26, 2020, 10:38 AM IST
According to the International Monetary Fund, India will be the large economy worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Fund now says that Indian GDP in the ongoing financial year, which began in March 2020,…
June 26, 2020, 10:38 AM IST
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8 hospitals in 15 hours — A pregnant woman’s crisis in coronavirus pandemic in Delhi: NYT
June 24, 2020, 12:26 PM IST
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj NEW DELHI: Neelam Kumari Gautam woke up at 5 a.m. with shooting labor pains. Her husband put her gently in the back of a rickshaw and motored with her…
June 24, 2020, 12:26 PM IST
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Is Aarogya Setu stealing your data? Several experts think so: CNN
June 22, 2020, 5:42 PM IST
Experts have raised concerns around the government’s coronavirus tracing app, Aarogya Setu questioning the safety of data being shared by the user on this app, according to a report published in CNN Business. Though the…
June 22, 2020, 5:42 PM IST
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Covid-19 brings out worst monetary plans from India’s Left, Right: Bloomberg
June 22, 2020, 8:10 AM IST
A rare meeting of minds between India’s Left and Right on a point of economics should alarm those who belong to neither. The two sides are tossing out similar — and similarly absurd — ideas….
June 22, 2020, 8:10 AM IST
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India and China need to rebuild economic ties to stave off war: Bloomberg
June 18, 2020, 12:03 PM IST
What’s worse than two populous, nuclear-armed countries killing each other’s soldiers? Two populous, nuclear-armed countries letting their longer-term relationship wither? Fighting along the Chinese-Indian border on the Tibetan plateau hasn’t come out of the blue….
June 18, 2020, 12:03 PM IST
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Economic arsenals intensify India and China clash: Reuters
June 17, 2020, 11:27 AM IST
Economic roads between India and China may prove as fraught as real ones running through the Himalayas. The first deadly clash between the nuclear powers in decades is even weightier given their deepening commercial links….
June 17, 2020, 11:27 AM IST
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