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The Facebook Inc. application is displayed for a photograph on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Facebook is struggling to respond to growing demands from Washington to explain how the personal data of millions of its users could be exploited by a consulting firm that helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

Facebook, Twitter can’t police on speech violation. Only Indian law can

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Covid-19: Dr WHO gets prescription wrong

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China’s coronavirus response has made the world confront grim realities of its leadership

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Foreign tourists wear protective masks at the Taj Mahal complex in Agra amid the coronavirus threat | Photo: ANI

Coronavirus is travelling to countries and so is misinformation around it. It’s an infodemic

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Two interconnected hands and grid-lines. Representational image.

Like steam engine & atom bomb, 4th Industrial Revolution tech is creating a new world order

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File photo of Chinese president Xi Jinping | Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

How Xi Jinping, whose father was expelled from Communist Party, became China’s ‘Dada’ Xi

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G7 summit shows post-war liberal world order is failing. India’s diplomacy offers a solution

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PM Narendra Modi

Global digital economy will take off without India if New Delhi can’t make up its mind

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File photo of Donald Trump and Narendra Modi

Here’s how US and India can be major defence partners and take lead over Russia and China

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Representational image| Amazon Inc. fulfillment center in Bengaluru, India | Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg

India was about to align its e-commerce market with global rules, then it lost trust

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On Camera

Opinion

An employee sits on a video call at the Unicredit SpA headquarters in Milan

Why shrinking offices and hot-desking are bad ideas, Covid or no Covid

Chris Hughes -
Employees’ demands for flexible working will include spacious offices. Given the relative savings, slashing floor space is a false economy.
File image of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo: ANI

Jaishankar’s moment to help Modi reset ties with Bangladesh, bury Shah’s ‘termite’ episode

Why radical Sunnis have taken to the streets against Shias in Pakistan

Economy

Oil Facilities And Services Ahead Of Final Year Figures After Demonetization Induced Fluctuation

Diesel demand drop forces India to import gasoline as Covid skews output

Debjit Chakraborty -
The slump in diesel demand is forcing refineries to operate below capacity, but gasoline sales are back at pre-virus levels with people resorting to personal vehicles.

Defence

File image of the OFB pavilion at DefExpo 2016 | Representational image | Twitter | @SpokespersonMoD

Army says ‘poor quality’ Ordnance Board ammo, mines have cost India Rs 960 crore since 2014

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Pointing out these shortcomings in an internal assessment, the Army has thrown its weight behind government plans to corporatise the OFB to make it more efficient.

National Interest

Narendra Modi and Amit Shah | File photo: T. Narayan | Bloomberg

Partners dispensable in Modi-Shah construct if they do not bring additional votes

Shekhar Gupta -
In the Modi-Shah construct, if partners do not bring additional votes, they are dispensable. However old or loyal, either they become supplicants, or die.
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