UpFront
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WATCH: The world's deadliest pandemics, and how Covid-19 stacks up
From ancient Rome to the modern era, a video timeline of the widespread diseases that killed millions—such as the 1918 Flu, HIV AIDS pandemic and other deadly plagues—and where the coronavirus stands
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How to cope if you haven't experienced market chaos before
But most millennials, the people born from 1981 to 1996, have not experienced these kind of losses as investors. How should they be thinking about their financial future?
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Coronavirus: India's locked museums take treasures online
With the hope that visitors will return after the Covid-19 lockdown, museums and art galleries across the country are finding ways to stay relevant and engage new audiences, virtually. The future of the business of art, however, remains a question mark
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Will the sanitiser opportunity sustain after the Covid-19 crisis?
The viability of the sanitiser market will have to be assessed with caution in the long term, says Rushabh Shah of Bleach Chem
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The Corona Virus: A new book by Mumbai doctors
Jaslok Hospital's Dr Rajesh M Parikh and medical researcher Maherra Desai, coauthors of the book, explain in this episode why, when the virus dates back to 2007, it hasn't been contained—and what lies ahead for India in the Covid-19 fight
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'In the lockdown, we want to support firms of all sizes': Microsoft India COO
The software giant has seen the use of its collaborative software tools zoom through the Covid-19 lockdown, and has a clear priority in case of any capacity constraints—health care clients, Rajiv Sodhi says
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'Sanitiser sales have zoomed, but profit is far': Scott Edil
The issue, the pharma company says, is that the government has capped the price on sanitisers but not on raw materials
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IMF predicts worst downturn since the Great Depression
With countries already hoarding medical supplies and international travel curtailed, the IMF warned that the crisis threatened to reverse decades of gains from globalisation
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Criticised, Trump tries shifting the blame to the WHO
US President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to halt funding for the World Health Organization, claiming it made a series of devastating mistakes as it sought to battle the virus
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The global Covid-19 crisis is poised to get much, much worse
It is dismaying that a danger that confronts the entire world, that is likely to hurt the entire global economy, has led to so little global cooperation
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SoftBank's troubles deepen with warning of $16.7 bn writedown
The Japanese conglomerate, which bet big on tech start-ups with its $100 billion Vision Fund, also expects its first annual loss in 15 years