America’s demographic stagnation to make it poorer?America faces a future of slower economic growth due to demographic stagnation. A declining birth rate and reduced immigration are shrinkin...
10 Apr, 2026, 06.03 PM IST
Nifty gave zero return to FIIs in 4.5 years. Can India win back fleeing foreign investors?Foreign investors have experienced no returns in Indian stocks for four and a half years. A combination of war, currency weakness, and oil ...
07 Apr, 2026, 09.42 AM IST
Zero-Covid, vaccine nationalism: How Xi Jinping-led China has put the world at risk againFew doubt that the pandemic spread from Wuhan- but what was the "ground zero?" Was it the sea-food market, or Wuhan Institute of Virology (...
22 Dec, 2022, 10.57 PM IST
'Too many positives!': As China rolls back 'zero-COVID' policy, virus fears spreadThe NHC said infected people with mild symptoms can now quarantine at home and it dropped the need for testing and health status checks on ...
08 Dec, 2022, 11.38 AM IST
China signals zero-Covid relaxation after protestsAnger over China's zero-Covid policy -- which involves mass lockdowns, constant testing and quarantines even for people who are not infecte...
01 Dec, 2022, 02.43 PM IST
Covid-19 cases continue to hit a record high for third consecutive day in China amid protests over lockdownsChina on Saturday reported over 34,900 cases, mostly that of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, as officials went about imposing lockd...
26 Nov, 2022, 07.39 PM IST
China state media demands strict adherence to ''zero-COVID''Local party officials are under immense pressure to curb new outbreaks, but directions from the central government have lately become harde...
15 Nov, 2022, 11.23 AM IST
China reports 10,000 new virus cases, capital closes parksThe country reported 10,729 new cases on Friday, almost all of them testing positive while showing no symptoms. More than 5 million people ...
11 Nov, 2022, 01.55 PM IST
What is China's zero-Covid policy and how does it work?China has yet to describe when or how it will begin to exit from an approach that it calls "dynamic zero". Here are key facts on China's ze...
03 Nov, 2022, 01.24 PM IST
China sends college students to quarantine under zero-COVIDQuarantining anyone considered to have been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus has been a pillar of China's "zero-CO...
11 Sep, 2022, 11.07 AM IST
Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero COVID' but end of lockdown on trackThe commercial hub of 25 million found three new cases in the same family in Qingpu district. All had taken three doses of vaccine and thei...
20 May, 2022, 01.26 PM IST
China's zero-Covid policy to hit Asia aviation recovery: IATAThe world's second-biggest economy is seeking to stamp out the coronavirus entirely, with rapid lockdowns and mass testing, and the measure...
17 May, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
Zero COVID policy not sustainable; shift strategy: WHO tells ChinaWorld Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this on Tuesday while commenting on China's zero COVID pol...
11 May, 2022, 02.30 PM IST
WHO says China's zero-Covid strategy unsustainableWHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said it was time to hit the reset button, saying any measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic should ...
10 May, 2022, 08.51 PM IST
As virus cases surge, can China's zero-Covid strategy hold?What is zero-Covid? China essentially closed itself off from the world in March 2020 to follow a formula it calls "dynamic zero" for curbin...
14 Mar, 2022, 10.23 AM IST
No exit from zero-COVID: China struggles to find policy off-rampChinese medical experts believed last year that higher vaccination rates would eventually allow China to relax tough rules on movement and ...
27 Jan, 2022, 11.18 AM IST
How China is keeping to its strict 'zero Covid' strategyThe country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019 is now among the last places still hewing to "zero Covid", placing millions un...
07 Jan, 2022, 10.24 AM IST