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Covid may be watershed, but from Bush to Clinton, US has accommodated China for years now

Since the outbreak of coronavirus, not much has been heard from the large number of China believers, who helped perpetuate the notion China was liberalising.

Irish return a favour to Native Americans 173 years later as Covid wreaks havoc

Native Americans had collected a big amount of money from their community and sent it to Ireland during the Great Famine in 1847.

American flies to Germany to meet girlfriend, is caught disguised as a janitor

The 20-year-old, who had disguised himself as an airport janitor to circumvent the screening process, was put on a US-bound flight.

World is talking in R0 values and infection rates, but coronavirus doesn’t care for such data

Averages are useful, to know where we're at in dealing with the pandemic, but there will be further flare-ups, easily large enough to overwhelm local resources.

US sees Covid spread twice as fast in areas where major meatpacking plants have reopened

Counties with these meatpacking plants accounted for 10% of new confirmed cases from 28 April to 5 May while representing just 7.5% of the US population.

India unlikely to talk to Taliban directly despite US push to change stance

New Delhi has made it clear to US peace talks official Zalmay Khalilzad that India wants Taliban to first recognise the democratic Afghanistan government.

Time to end the ‘blame game’ over coronavirus, Chinese ambassador tells US

Ambassador Cui Tiankai said blaming China for the coronavirus outbreak’s spread risked ‘decoupling’ the world’s two largest economies.

Leaked US govt report on China indicates that cold war between the two is only intensifying

In episode 461 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about the growing tensions with China as US digs for details on the origin of Covid-19, and the slowing positivity rate in India.

How Mohammed bin Salman hit a dead end in Washington

MBS is as close to a pariah as a senior member of the royal family has ever been in the 75 years of the Saudi-American alliance.

Coronavirus a hoax, fearing it a sin, believed several US pastors and many have since died

Conservative Christian clergymen in the US have been encouraging their flock to come to church and attend meetings, actively defying social distancing rules.

On Camera

1989 Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case still haunts Indian policy-making in Kashmir

The kidnapping—followed by the killing of four Indian Air Force officers soon after, and the executions of Intelligence Bureau personnel—made the triumph of jihadism seem inevitable.

India’s Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code is struggling to deliver. It’ll take a decade to clear backlog

The Centre is considering an increase in the National Company Law Tribunal's bench capacity, while the Standing Committee of Finance suggests fast-track courts. 

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.