UpFront
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'Lockdown extension tested patience of migrant workers'
Subodh C Dixit, executive director, Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering & Construction, on the impending shortage of labour in the coming months and why construction companies are staring at huge financial losses
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Is FM Sitharaman's growth pill good enough?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has addressed supply side issues with ₹20 lakh crore package, but there is little to boost demand. Experts say these are just support measures in the absence of direct cash infusions
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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?