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Topic: Bloomberg wire

Facebook’s $5.7 billion investment in Jio being reviewed by Competition Commission of India

The Competition Commission of India looks to prevent misuse of data in all the deals it assesses, Chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta said.

When work moved home during Covid, so did toxic workplace harassment

Far from ending misconduct, the pandemic lockdowns have displaced workplace misconduct at best, and fuelled it at worst.

China’s new movies shine patriotic light on Covid-19 battle

Chinese studios are plotting out positive portrayals of doctors and govt's effort to tackle the outbreak, in an effort to counter criticism about slow initial response.

China has a new Covid challenge: How to contain outbreak in Beijing without sealing city

It remains a mystery how the coronavirus re-emerged in Beijing after a lull of nearly two months, underscoring the difficulty of stamping out the pathogen.

Sweden proves ‘surprisingly slow’ in achieving herd immunity

Sweden's Covid-19 mortality is among the worst in the world and its contagion rates are much higher than anywhere else in the Nordic region.

New Zealand PM Ardern calls in military after Covid quarantine bungle

New Zealand, which had declared it was Covid free, saw new cases after 2 sisters, who returned from UK, were allowed to leave quarantine early without a Covid test.

There’s low risk of food spreading the virus, experts say after salmon panic

Questions were raised over potential dangers of food after Covid infections were traced to the chopping board of a seller of imported salmon in Beijing.

Pakistan is understating coronavirus infections & deaths, top official says

The country has over 1.5 lakh Covid cases and about 3,000 deaths. Infections have increased manifold since the govt eased a lockdown in the second week of May.

South Korea warns Kim Jong Un against ‘reckless’ provocation after North blows up joint office

South Korea urged North Korea to tread carefully after the country reduced to rubble a $15 million liaison office set up in 2018 as a symbol of reconciliation.

Every black man in US fears being stopped by police, key Republican Senator Graham says

US Senators are calling for overhauling police training & citizen rights as Congress wrestles with nationwide protests over racial injustice and police misconduct.

On Camera

Europe’s sanctions are not the moral compass it paints to be. Look at the EU’s own data

Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.