Business
Indian hotel industry writes off 2020
June 20, 2020
Even though hotels in many states across India were allowed to reopen a fortnight ago, most hoteliers believe it would take at least two years for business to return.
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Khan Market’s shopkeepers & shoppers remain...
June 8, 2020
Monday was the first day when New Delhi’s iconic Khan Market was fully reopened for business, after over 75 days of severe restrictions. But neither the shopkeepers nor the shoppers looked at ease.
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Is Italy turning its back on EU?
June 1, 2020
Having been let down by fellow EU members while it was struggling with coronavirus pandemic, Italians are increasingly hostile towards the community, and with fairly good reasons.
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Fearful, frenetic, furious flyers
May 25, 2020
Total chaos, cancellations and delays greeted the few thousand flyers at Mumbai airport on Monday as domestic air travel resumed after two months.
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Modi leaves India guessing about lockdown 4.0
May 14, 2020
When yet another address to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was announced, practically everyone in India had a wish to be fulfilled. However, instead of answering prayers or laying out government’s strategy to restore the economy back to health, the speech had only p...
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PM Cares Fund cannibalises NGO funding
May 9, 2020
India’s vibrant civil society landscape risks devastation as the coronavirus pandemic and a severe funding crisis grips NGOs across the nation.
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Indian farmers to be doubly hit by Covid19
May 5, 2020
Agriculture is the principal source of revenue for nearly 65 pc of the Indian population. High time that the government looked at the severe impact that lockdown has had on farmers.
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Post-lockdown industrial revival remains a distant...
April 29, 2020
Central government’s conditions for letting select industries restart are proving to be a non-starter.
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Rural India bears the brunt of coronavirus fallout
April 21, 2020
While the spread of covid19 has mainly been in urban India, the worst impact of the pandemic is being felt in its villages.
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Covid-19 & Indian economy
April 18, 2020
The additional moves by the Reserve Bank of India to ease liquidity in the markets in order to prop up the economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic don't address demand side issues.
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