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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.

Modi’s poorly planned lockdown won’t save us from coronavirus, but will kill economy

With typically shoddy execution, Modi's national curfew could starve Indians to death — and not even save them from the coronavirus.

This is how coronavirus lockdowns have worked in China, S. Korea, Italy and US

Even as China moves to lift a quarantine on the original virus epicentre of Wuhan after stanching the outbreak, India and much of Europe are locking down.

India’s GDP is headed for a rare quarterly contraction in April-June quarter

With two of the three-week shutdown falling in April, GDP growth in the quarter to June could contract about 5%, the first in at least two decades.

India’s 21-day lockdown will not work unless politicians making the rules follow them

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Three-week lockdown is PM Modi’s surgical strike against coronavirus

What is extraordinary about Modi’s lockdown is its magnitude. Never before in history has a curfew been imposed on such a large number of people.

I am no fan of Modi, but I support coronavirus lockdown. Opposition should too

India needs both the government and the opposition to face this crisis. For the lockdown to succeed, opposition needs to ask, be alert and expose.

‘Modi draws Laxman Rekha’ against Covid-19, says HT, ‘India’s locked & loaded’ on ET

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

Modi’s Covid-19 lockdown speech shows he doesn’t learn from past mistakes, or doesn’t care to

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second speech on coronavirus reveals that he is like Nehru. He can win elections, and nothing else.

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.

On Camera

In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

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.