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Covid-19 desperation is spreading across India
The desperation that engulfed New Delhi, India's capital, over the past few weeks is now spreading across the country, hitting states and rural areas with many fewer resources
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How CashKaro got its payback from cashbacks (and some cash burn)
A business model built around online product and price discovery with the user promise of hard cash in the bank has helped CashKaro step on the gas in the pandemic year—and, in the bargain, build some serious street cred
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Global cases are falling, but virus surging in countries that had kept it under control
Wealthy nations well stocked with Covid-19 vaccines are gaining control of the virus while it continues to run rampant in other parts of the world, pummelling India and flaring in Southeast Asian countries that had been fending it off
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China's 'long-term time bomb': Falling births drive slow population growth
China's population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1960s, with falling births and a greying workforce presenting the Communist Party with one of its gravest social and economic challenges
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What is mucormycosis, or Black Fungus?
Amid the second wave of coronavirus, cases of mucormycosis or Black Fungus, a rare life-threatening infection are being reported among Covid-19 patients
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Inside Paytm 3.0: Vijay Shekhar Sharma's vision for a one-stop finance shop for India
As of 2020, the billionaire's super app for financial services had run up losses in thousands of crores. Now, as digital payments gets yet another boost courtesy of Covid-19, he's hopeful of reaching near breakeven in two years
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The psychedelic revolution is coming. Psychiatry may never be the same.
After decades of demonisation and criminalisation, psychedelic drugs are on the cusp of entering mainstream psychiatry, with profound implications for a field that in recent decades has seen few pharmacological advancements for the treatment of mental disorders and addiction
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At India's funeral pyres, Covid-19 sunders the rites of grief
For families of Covid-19 victims, the cremation ground can be the last stop of a harrowing ordeal, after dragging their sick from hospital to hospital in search of a bed, after lining up for hours for oxygen
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#AnniversarySpecial: Imagining a brave new world
Forbes India's 12th anniversary comes at a time that calls for more retrospection than celebration, and hence our #AnniversarySpecial issue is a wealth of essays from CEOs, entrepreneurs, economists, philanthropists, penning their imagination for the future across 12 sectors entrenched in our lives
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Three months after coup, Myanmar returns to the 'bad old days'
Military censors sever the internet across most of Myanmar, matching the darkness outside with an information blackout while Soldiers sweep through the cities, arresting, abducting and assaulting with slingshots and rifles
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Not just Bill and Melinda Gates: Here are other power-couple divorces
Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce comes two years after another high-profile divorce that grabbed headlines—Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott called off their marriage in 2019. Here are other high-profile divorces in the philanthropy, business and entertainment world