Coronavirus
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Warriors on the frontline
How doctors and nurses in hospitals along with assorted health activists and workers on the outside are taking on the Covid-19 crisis head-on and saving lives against all odds
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How Covid-19 is affecting student placements
As top companies defer and revoke job offers, graduating classes are finding their careers up in the air; IITs and business schools, meanwhile, are working hard to help find placements, moving the process online
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Trump halts US immigration: What this means for you
A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days
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EXPLAINED: How an oil barrel became worth less than nothing
The price of the main US oil bench mark fell to end the day about $30 below zero, negative for the first time ever . Such an eye-popping slide is the result of a quirk in the oil market, but it underscores the industry's disarray as the coronavirus pandemic decimates the world economy
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Clampdown to Covid-19 lockdown: Kashmir has a lesson for the world
Kashmiri residents have learned, the hard way, how to manage life indoors. Local businesses, however, have been battered twice over, even as they were just emerging from a seven-month shutdown. "It's like playing with fire every time you invest in the business," a handloom merchant says
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'Covid-19 has nudged companies towards the cloud': Juniper Networks India MD
Customers who are cloud native or cloud-centric can run their business continuity plans more swiftly than those who are limited to their own infrastructure, says Sajan Paul, managing director and country manager, India and SAARC at Juniper Networks
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Global recession "almost inevitable": New report
The global pandemic has also come at a time when starting interest rates are low, and economic tools to combat the crisis are limited
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Are face masks the new condoms?
If people with no symptoms are spreading the coronavirus, as some studies suggest, it may be time to give face masks the kind of advertising and promotion that support condoms as lifesavers, especially in the HIV context
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Covid-19: How to stay safe while grocery shopping
No-contact or online shopping might be the best option, but it may not always be available. Here are some tips to keep yourself safe inside grocery stores
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Virtual dating is the new normal. Will it work?
Virtual dating platforms are quickly pivoting to help quarantined singles. But the jury is still out on whether these new initiatives will change dating culture for good
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All IT is acquiring cloud computing characteristics: HPE India MD
The longer-term trend that will emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown will be that company tech, regardless of location and ownership, will work on the lines of on-demand supply, consumption-based pricing and ease of use, says Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Som Satsangi