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TopicZero covid

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How China’s No 2 on the CCP’s Politburo Standing Committee brought the end of zero-Covid policy

Experts say Li Qiang abruptly drove a decision to activate the reopening plans sooner than intended to contain the economic toll of the zero-COVID campaign.

Elderly protest in China’s Wuhan against medical benefit cuts

Personal medical insurance benefits for retirees have been slashed from about 5% of the average basic pension to 2.5%, according to Wuhan Healthcare Security Administration.

Vacations within China over Lunar New Year break surge after lifting of Covid-19 curbs

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of people making trips inside China over the week-long Lunar New Year holiday surged 74% from last year after authorities scrapped COVID-19 curbs that

China ends ‘zero-Covid’ policy, reports no deaths, but viral images, videos tell another tale

Experts accuse the country of under-reporting cases as Twitter sees satellite images and videos from China of crowded crematoriums and bodies being burnt on the streets.

‘India need not panic, it is immunised,’ says NTAGI chairman amid China’s Covid deaths

China’s abrupt exit from its strict ‘zero-Covid’ policy could result in at least 1 million deaths, a report has said.

China’s early decline is wishful thinking. Western think tanks keep getting it wrong

The road ahead may not be smooth for China but to argue that it peaking or on the way to decline is just outlandish. India would do well to not get excited.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Joys of Trumplomacy: India & the world are learning US President’s 99 moods and 1 goal

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.