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China's economy Is booming. Shoppers are skittish anyway
China reported on Friday that its economy grew by a jaw-dropping 18.3% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year
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Biden's Afghan pullout is a victory for Pakistan. But at what cost?
A return of the Taliban to some form of power would dial the clock back to a time when Pakistan's military played gatekeeper to Afghanistan, perpetually working to block the influence of its archenemy, India
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Buy. Build. Repeat: How PayU created a fintech ecosystem
How a string of buyouts, bold investment bets and aggressive ramp up helped online payments major PayU build a fintech ecosystem
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Bernie Madoff, architect of largest ponzi scheme in history, is dead at 82
Madoff's enormous fraud began among friends, relatives and country club acquaintances in Manhattan and Long Island but ultimately grew to encompass major charities, universities, institutional investors, and wealthy families in Europe, Latin America and Asia
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Biden says US troops will be out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11
The roughly 2,500 American troops on the ground there would be gradually withdrawn starting May 1, with the process complete by Sept. 11, bringing an end to a largely failed chapter in American foreign policy
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Can India's vaccine fast-track programme help fight the deadly second Covid wave?
As the government allows emergency use clearance for foreign vaccines to give the pace of inoculation a big push, Forbes India explores what difference it will make to the existing supply capacities
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Lockdown isn't a solution, but can slow down the spread of Covid-19: Chhattisgarh CM
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel on tackling the dual problems of Covid-19 and Naxal violence in the state
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Sputnik V: All you need to know about India's third Covid-19 vaccine
As DGCI approves the Sputnik V for emergency use authorisation, here's a lowdown on everything you need to know about it, including storage requirements, doses, global approvals for usage, and more
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Japan's plan for Fukushima wastewater meets a wall of mistrust in Asia
Japan has dismissed criticism of its plan as unscientific, saying that the treated water is well within safety standards, and pointing out that such releases into oceans are routine around the world
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J&J vaccine and blood clots: A risk, if it exists, is tiny
On April 13, US federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of blood clots in women ages 18 to 48
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What's good about tech bubbles
Unlike the housing market bubble, technology bubbles aren't typically inflated by borrowed money that can cause cascading effects