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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.

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Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

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.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

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.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

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.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

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?