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Topic: Bloomberg wire

India’s lockdown is hurting medical supply deliveries that are key to fight virus

Strict movement curbs being enforced by state govts are hampering supplies of medical devices & those trying to meet the growing demands for health workers.

Biyani family of Future Group breaches terms of loans it took by pledging shares

Biyani family is in talks with creditors to fix the problem. It’s exploring sale of stakes in firms to pay down debt in exchange for forbearance.

Netflix market cap surpasses Disney amid ‘stay at home’ orders

Netflix has seen a spike in downloads for its app in regions that have been hit hard by Covid-19 outbreak, a trend that could point to higher international demand.

How to help Iran fight coronavirus

The US should acknowledge that helping Iran by relieving some sanctions would in no way change the overall posture of its maximum-pressure policy.

Trump wants the lockdown to end by Easter. Big mistake.

Easing restrictions and letting people get back to work won't simply restore the economy to its former health as the disease would come roaring right back.

Women in New York are delivering babies alone as there is no hand to hold in hospitals

Tight restrictions on visitors, even for those giving birth, are one of many dramatic measures New York hospitals have taken to prepare for the crush of incoming Covid-19 patients.

Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time

Isolated by a highly contagious virus, doctors across the globe are trying to fill an information void online.

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.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.