When Covid hit, Italy, Spain and France's public finances were already under strain, while German-dominated north had more fiscal firepower to ride out the crisis.
Amid sentiment that Europe has seen the worst of the Covid pandemic, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said they were doing this as quickly as possible, but responsibly.
European leaders are eager to restart economies after lockdown shuttered factories, halted travel & kept millions of people largely confined to their homes.
Location data Google collects has been shared with researchers. It can’t be used to track individuals but shows broad patterns of movement across countries.
The world’s second-biggest garment exporter, Bangladesh has been relatively unscathed with 27 coronavirus cases, but massive order cancellations may hit its economy.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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