Pakistan's fiscal deficit will be significantly worse than projected this fiscal year, with the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic pushing millions into unemployment and poverty, according to ... ( read original story ...)
India’s ‘Maximum City’ Engulfed by Coronavirus
Overflowing hospitals. Exhausted cops. Desperate slums. Here are images from Mumbai as the coronavirus upends the metropolis. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus lockdown: India announces free food for fleeing migrants
India will provide free food to migrants for two months as part of a $266bn (£216bn) economic plan to combat the effect of the Covid-19 lockdown. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said grain ... ( read original story ...)
‘I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!’: the tale of India’s lost techno pioneers
In the 1960s, a group of Indian students accidentally invented minimal techno – and hoped their synths could cure disease. A new documentary unearths their story ... ( read original story ...)
India to provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers
India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs program, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ... ( read original story ...)
India Minister Pushes Conspiracy Theory Coronavirus Was Created in a Lab: ‘This is Not a Natural Virus’
This is unexpected because this a virus from a laboratory, this is not a natural virus." Modi and his cabinet have been largely quiet on the origins and course of coronavirus, instead focusing on ... ( read original story ...)
How 400,000 Masks Were Shipped From China to a U.S. Nursing Home
A makeshift supply chain connecting a nursing-home owner with a friend of a friend who normally imports clocks, shows how chaotic the market for protective gear has become. ( read original story ...)
Trump Threatens to ‘Cut Off the Whole Relationship’ With China, Says U.S. Would Save $500 Billion
The U.S. and many other nations have become increasingly critical of China amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Pandas sent back to China over bamboo shortage
World Pandas sent back to China over bamboo shortage. Posted . The Calgary Zoo will send its two giant pandas back to China over a shortage in bamboo supply amid the coronavirus p ... ( read original story ...)
Trump says pandemic clouds U.S.-China trade deal
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was very disappointed in China over its failure to contain the novel coronavirus, saying the worldwide pandemic cast a pall over his trade deal with ... ( read original story ...)