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What happens when investors stop SIPs during crises–real investors, real panic, and the real cost of walking awayFrom a cancer diagnosis in Kolkata to a layoff in Bengaluru to Covid panic in Agra—real investors, real crises, and the real cost of walkin...
Employee traumatised by sudden firing gets the last laugh. Company comes running back 6 months after terminationA Reddit post about a former employee being contacted by his old company months after being fired has sparked widespread discussion online....
'Lockdown in India' notice arrives: Viral govt document leaves people shockedAn 'Iran war lockdown' alert caused panic on social media. The message, designed to look official, urged people to stay indoors. However, i...
Lockdown in India? Oil Minister Hardeep Puri addresses the rumoursThe Indian government has officially clarified that rumors of a potential nationwide lockdown are entirely false. Union Minister Hardeep Si...
India lockdown: Centre unlikely to impose one even as States/UTs can customise theirs"And if you shut down, you don't have to shut down for six months. You can shut down temporarily to put an end to the cycle of transmission...
Centre rules out possibility of national lockdownAll states and Union Territories, however, have been directed to consider containment measures suggested by the health ministry recently, a...
150 districts with a COVID-19 positivity rate over 15 percent may go under lockdownThe measures were recommended by the Union health ministry at a high-level meeting on Tuesday but a final decision will be taken by the Cen...
Where were you when re-lockdown happened?Neither are these times unprecedented (lockdown is ‘precedented’) nor is this the 'new normal' (which is now more than a year old).
The great Indian lockdown survey: The good, bad and the uglyThe virus has brought the Indian economy to new low after new low over the past six weeks.
Lockdown extended by 2 weeks, India split into red, green and orange zonesThe extension will see some relaxations which will be regulated based on the spread of coronavirus in districts.
Lockdown, Day 38: India shut for 2 more weeksThe economic toll of the crippling nationwide lockdown has become too glaring to ignore, with auto maker Maruti selling zero units in all o...
India coronavirus count, April 27: Cases near 28,000, toll jumps to 872Till 5 pm yesterday, Maharashtra had 7,628 cases in total — a tally as high as the combined numbers of Gujarat, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, t...
Shops selling educational books, electric fans, prepaid phone recharge allowed during lockdownThe orders were issued by the Home Ministry on Tuesday night after receiving some queries with regard to exemptions of specific services an...
What happens when bread is scarce and grain exporters speak upIn the throes of a once-in-a-century pandemic, the headlines in many wealthier nations scream of empty supermarket shelves, of panic buying...
Stranded labourers to be allowed to move within state during lockdown with conditionsThe govt order made it clear that there will be no inter-state movement of workers.
Lockdown may have to be extended: PM Narendra Modi to oppositionIt comes amid raging speculation of a likely 2-week extension of the lockdown being on the cards.
View: For India, winning the war against Covid will just be a temporary reprieveIt is now clear that the state’s lack of administrative capacity is complemented by its lack of imaginative ability. The lockdown was bound...
View: India's gains from the drastic lockdown will outstrip its costsOn balance, and despite many local cockups, India has responded spectacularly to an endeavour that has involved both personal sacrifice and...
Lockdown may not be enough to contain coronavirus spread in India: Rajan“It may be hard to prevent infections from spreading,”the former Reserve Bank of India Governor said.
COVID-19: UN expresses solidarity with India, WHO terms lockdown 'comprehensive and robust'In an attempt to stem the spread of coronavirus in India, Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday announced a nationwide lockdown for three weeks. M...