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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Virus hands world leaders sweeping powers they may never give up

In India, officials are tracking mobile phones, pulling out data from airlines & railways, and stamping people’s hands with indelible ink to follow suspected infections.

India’s economic data releases to be delayed due to lockdown

The delay of high-frequency indicators such as inflation and industrial production may cloud the near-term assessment of economic trends.

Who should live, who should die – the tough choice doctors in Spain are making

With nearly 3,500 deaths, coronavirus fatalities in Spain are now rising faster than they did in China and Italy, the other two global hotspots.

How coronavirus has toppled economics in just a few weeks

The global crisis unleashed by Covid-19 is tossing aside economic orthodoxies at a furious pace, possibly forever.

WHO issues a rare public scolding, tells countries not to waste time

The world has a second chance, as 150 countries have fewer than 100 reported cases and still have time to prepare, WHO chief Tedros said.

Netflix reduces video quality in India as well to handle internet traffic surge

Netflix operates the world’s most popular paid-TV network, and is the second-biggest driver of internet traffic in the world after YouTube.

Boris Johnson’s coronavirus response is a fiasco

In an astonishing failure of leadership and of good governance, the British government and its scientists did not spot what was so evident elsewhere.

How to lock down 2.6 billion people without killing the economy

A Sector-by-sector approach can be utilised to see how offices can be re-tooled during social distancing, along with a ramp-up in resources like masks and medical equipment.

Hoarding chloroquine won’t cure coronavirus

US President Donald Trump's advocacy of older malaria drugs, chloroquine & hydroxychloroquine, with limited evidence of efficacy in Covid-19, is arguably dangerous.

Will the armchair coronavirus experts please sit down

These armchair epidemiologists believe they can project the trajectory of Covid-19 but it's serious science.

On Camera

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.