UpFront
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Episode 13: The increasing perils of being a minority in India
With professor Tanweer Fazal, Forbes India's Pooja Sarkar discusses the book 'The Minority Conundrum: Living in Majoritarian Times', a collection of stories he has edited, which covers sensitive subjects such as lynchings, identity politics and how livelihoods are affected in times of prejudice
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Lockdown 4: Things to know before opening up your office
Stagger shifts, social distance, sanitise—here's what you need to do before you can roll up your shutters
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Johnson & Johnson ends talc-based baby powder sale in North America
The company has faced thousands of lawsuits from cancer patients who claim that its talc was contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, and that the company knew of the risks
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Cambridge University will hold its lectures online next year
The 800-year-old institution is the first to manifest the far-reaching effects the pandemic will have on education, saying it expects social distancing guidelines to stay in place until 2021
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Vaccine-shaped recovery
India's population, their movement and density make containing Covid a challenge
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Exodus of the Far Away Brothers
Understanding the working life of a migrant worker, and why many are losing patience and heading home
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Coronavirus vaccine trial by Moderna shows promising early results
If trials go well, a vaccine could become available for widespread use by the end of this year or early 2021
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Michael Jordan's game-worn sneakers sell for $560,000
The sale took place on the same day as ESPN aired the finale of "The Last Dance," a 10-part documentary about Jordan's career
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Indian real estate: A house of cards
The liquidity crisis of 2018 left the real estate sector floundering. Will Covid-19 be the last straw on the sector's back?
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Japan falls into recession, and worse lies ahead
That makes it the largest economy to officially enter a recession. Other major economies around the world are set to follow, joining Japan as well as Germany and France in recession, as efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak ripple around the globe
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Lockdown 4: What's new and what's still restricted
Some measures have been relaxed in inter and intra-state travel in the fourth phase of the Covid-19 lockdown that begins today, along with those in retail and e-commerce