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Monday, June 17, 2024
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Topic: Global Economy

Philippine President Duterte’s popularity at risk, US dollar weakening & other Covid stories

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

The next 3 months will reveal how badly global economy has been hit by coronavirus

Next 3 months stand to reveal the underlying economic pain more vividly than past 3 months as massive fiscal assistance from govts is soon going to fade.

Why US pandemic is different from EU’s, boom in lockdown erotica & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Hit by lockdown, global banks are assessing pros and cons of having back offices in India

London/Mumbai: India’s decision to impose the world’s biggest virus shutdown has exposed a weak spot for the largest securities firms, which grappled with a...

ArtChainIndia, a peer-support movement helping artists tide over the Covid crisis

The social media initiative encourages artists to sell their work directly on Instagram & support fellow artists by buying their work.

Coronavirus could cost global economy $8.8 trillion – that’s almost 10% of global GDP

The new estimates by ADB are more than twice the range of $2 trillion to $4.1 trillion the development bank gave 3 April.

UK GDP shrinks by 2% amid Covid-19 crisis, biggest quarterly decline since 2008

The fall was the biggest since the financial crisis of 2008 and included a contraction of 5.8 per cent in the March GDP alone, the biggest monthly fall on record.

Fresh wave in China, White House struggles to control pandemic and other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Surprisingly, April was Wall Street’s best month in decades

Weeks of increasingly dire real-economy figures and Covid news didn’t move the US market in a big way.

SEBI and Franklin Templeton fight over investment rules after funds collapse

SEBI rebuts claims tighter rules pushed Franklin into freezing 6 debt funds & said asset manager should focus on returning $4.1 billion to investors.

On Camera

No insult to Ayurveda. AIIMS an attempt to bring good standards of medical education—Amrit Kaur

On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.

Cash-strapped Karnataka hikes fuel tax by Rs 3/l, could earn Rs 2,500-3,000 cr more per yr

Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.

With an eye on China, IAF expands taxi track at Leh airport, new shelters being built

Expanded taxi track is smaller than those meant for civilian operations, but is long enough for fighters & military transport aircraft to operate.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.