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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

iPhone makers suspend production in India due to lockdown

Thousands of Apple's Indian employees are likely to be impacted by the 21-day nationwide lockdown, announced by PM Narendra Modi Tuesday night.

Countries are starting to hoard food, threatening global trade

Not just grocery shoppers, some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic.

Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine no better than regular coronavirus care, Chinese study says

Zhejiang University report showed patients who got malaria medicine didn’t fight off coronavirus more often than those who did not get it.

World’s top infra manager is eyeing to buy India’s top PSU oil and gas pipeline assets

Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets believes govt will divest non-core oil and gas assets, like oil storage facilities, pipelines, transmission facilities.

ICICI Pru Life, Aegon Life insurance keep the faith in Indian stocks amid market mayhem

The 2 life insurance firms are keeping money in stocks despite selling by foreign funds due to the coronavirus-led wave of risk aversion.

For Modi, the 21-day shutdown is an unprecedented gamble

Modi may have felt he was left no choice & his instincts are always to go as big as possible. Shutting down 1.3 billion people for 21 days is as big as it gets.

Modi govt bans export of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 demand surges

Although there is no conclusive scientific evidence that hydroxychloroquine can treat Covid-19, US hospitals and consumers have begun stockpiling it.

Facebook held talks for 10% stake in Reliance Jio, says Financial Times

Facebook was close to signing preliminary deal for 10% of Jio before Covid-19 travel bans stalled negotiations, Financial Times reported.

How the coronavirus recession is like World War II

There is a lot of discussion about the Great Recession of 2008 but the coronavirus crisis has more in common with World War II.

When social isolation means hiding out in a 5-star resort

Some wealthy outliers are sheltering exactly where they were when the coronavirus news started to ripple around the world—in intimate, remote, five-star hotels.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

India has a low inflation problem. What can it do?

It will be tough for Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra to get right. Rupee is the worst-performing Asian currency this year against the dollar.

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.