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Workers wear masks as they manufacture shoes at a factory in the town of Xiangtang, Nanchang county in eastern Chinas Jiangxi Province. The ruling Communist Party has told local officials to help reopen factories that were idled by the most intensive anti-disease controls ever imposed. (AP)

All nations scramble for solutions as Made in China' coronavirus...

The saddest part is that mankind is unlikely to have learnt any lessons, as in the past

12 March 2020 7:41 AM

People walk across an unusually empty medieval Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic. AP photo

Coronavirus repercussions on global economy profound

China's totals of 80,793 cases and 3,169 deaths are a shrinking portion of the world's more than 1,26,000 infections and...

12 March 2020 5:52 AM

Global equities have received a boost this week as governments around the world gradually loosened their coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (AFP Photo)

Asia shares rise on hopes of rapid economic recovery

Global equities have received a boost this week as governments around the world gradually loosened their coronavirus...

21 May 2020 3:25 AM

Asian equities rally stalls on lingering economic uncertainty. (AFP Photo)

Asian equities rally stalls on lingering economic uncertainty

The World Bank warned the crisis could leave about 60 million in extreme poverty

20 May 2020 3:38 AM

Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)

Coronavirus lockdown causes historic spike in layoffs in India

The steep downturn in activity underlined the widespread havoc wrought by the pandemic worldwide

6 May 2020 8:02 AM

Indias economy is set to contract this year. (AFP)

Why IMF's latest projection on India's economic growth must not come...

Coronavirus and the consequent lockdown have dealt a body blow to India's economic recovery

27 Jun 2020 9:40 AM

US exports to China rose to $8.6 billion in April, up from a 10-year monthly trough of $6.8 billion in February. (AFP Photo)

Trump threat to 'decouple' US and China hits trade, investment reality

The damage-control efforts by the Trump administration come after Trump said last week that a complete decoupling from...

24 Jun 2020 6:43 AM

Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Jose Angel Gurria. Global economy to contract at least 6% in 2020, says OECD. (AP Photo)

OECD sees global economy contracting at least 6% in 2020

By the end of 2021, the loss of income exceeds that of any previous recession over last 100 years outside wartime, says...

10 Jun 2020 9:05 AM

An anti-mask protestor holds up a sign in front of the Ohio Statehouse during a right-wing protest Stand For America Against Terrorists and Tyrants at State Capitol on July 18, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. (AFP)

When US sneezes, world catches a cold. What happens when it has severe...

US' troubled response to the coronavirus pandemic emerges as a chief risk to any attempt to a sustained global recovery

21 July 2020 7:28 AM

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva. (AFP Photo)

Not out of the woods yet: IMF chief warns second wave of virus could...

Activity has started to gradually strengthen, but we are not out of the woods yet, Georgieva said in a message to G20...

16 July 2020 5:16 AM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Dilip Cherian | As Modi govt eyes final lap, latest secretary rejig is...

At a time when the global economy is still struggling and India is facing rising food, fuel and fertiliser subsidy...

26 Oct 2022 6:30 PM

Union minister of state for food and public distribution system, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, stated in Lok Sabha that in terms of rice, Punjab had contributed 135.89 LMTs while Telangana contributed 94.57 LMTs. (Representational image: PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Wheat, famine, starvation: Some lessons for...

Like the 1770 famine which heralded the West's arrival on Indian soil, the British departure from the East too saw the...

24 May 2022 7:25 PM