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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: New York

Covid-19 hospitalisations continue to rise in New York, no slowing of rate of positive tests

Travelers from the UK face more restrictions due to a new variant of the virus spreading, with the US insisting arriving Britons have a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of departing the country.

Nirav Modi’s brother Nehal charged for committing fraud worth $2.6 million in New York

Nehal Modi is indicted for obtaining diamonds from one of the world's biggest firms LLD on favourable terms, and then liquidating them for his own ends.

Japan expects fewer births in 2021, New York braces for possible second wave & other 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.

‘Will never forget the sound of bodies smashing on ground’ — 9/11 survivor, 19 years later

Edouard Pierre Goubert worked in the North Tower of the World Trade Center when it was hit by two hijacked planes on Tuesday, 11 September 2001.

Covid death rates in New York city could exceed 1918 Spanish Flu mortalities

The full report for 2020 won’t be ready for a couple of years, but there’s enough data available now to estimate how Covid might rank among the pestilences that have beset NYC.

Mexico moves to ban junk food for children, China holds secret high-level meet & other 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.

New York launches national ad campaign to promote masks

Titled 'Mask Up America', the ad features celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx and Ellen Pompeo, and arrives as many people still refuse to wear masks in public.

New York City records no Covid deaths for the first time since March

The milestone marked the end of a four-month stretch since New York City reported its first Covid fatality on 11 March. NYC has reported 18,670 confirmed Covid deaths.

New Yorkers are so bored they’re splurging on firecrackers to entertain themselves

There were 11,275 fireworks complaints in the first 21 days of June, compared with 28 in the same period last year, according to city data.

Mumbai is now India’s national Covid epicentre, but it is not what New York City is to US

In episode 482 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta looks at Covid data from Maharashtra and Mumbai, which has become the epicentre of coronavirus in India.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

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?