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Post-Covid scenario: Swoosh, pipe, Z, L & W… shape of our future

Predicting recovery graphs, economists add cool shapes to plain vanilla V or U trajectories. There’s the Swoosh, a recovery pattern that looks like Nike’s famous logo. There’s the smoking pipe graph. There’s a W, Z and an L. Entirely predictably, because they can never agree on anything that’s important, different economists are championing different shapes, including in India. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/2yTTSoA

Kick Off a Week of Community and Culture

By BY ADRIANA BALSAMO from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/3gAcVoZ

‘Billions’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Old Men

By BY SEAN T. COLLINS from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3gILXv8

Covid Live: Brazil crosses half million cases

Covid Live: Brazil crosses half million casesBrazil registered 16,409 new cases, raising the total number of infected cases to 5,14,849, making the South American country the second-worst affected. 29,314 people have succumbed to the virus, as of date. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/3eAA1d3

Sebi mulls one-time listing window for unlisted NCDs

Sebi mulls one-time listing window for unlisted NCDsMutual funds holding illiquid, lower-rated securities would be able to use this opportunity to offload them to buyers. The rise in risk aversion after the Covid-19 lockdown had made it very difficult for funds to sell these securities without incurring huge losses. According to industry estimates, debt mutual fund schemes held unlisted NCDs worth Rs 41,500 crore on March 31. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/2XiitwI

Christo’s Grand Projects

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Aggressive Police Tactics During Protests Are Under Scrutiny

By BY SHAILA DEWAN AND MIKE BAKER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2MgdWED

Lockdown: Old age homes stare at closure

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Experts: Community transmission of Covid-19 certainly on

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Did not refer to journalists as vultures in SC: Mehta

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Could tackle this crisis as Modi started readying 6 years ago: Yogi

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Amid Riots and a Pandemic, Church Attendance Resumes in ‘a Very Broken World’

By BY SHAWN HUBLER AND RICK ROJAS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3djRpCI

Video Appears to Show a Tanker Truck Driving Into Minneapolis Protesters

By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2yQEOrH

‘We’re Sick and Tired’: Voices From Minneapolis Protests

By BY KATIE G. NELSON, MIKE SHUM, SAMEEN AMIN, DMITRIY KHAVIN AND BARBARA MARCOLINI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TTYlis

Symbol of N.Y.C. Unrest: A Burning Police Car

By BY AZI PAYBARAH AND NIKITA STEWART from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3gGd9L9

Destructive Power of Despair

By BY CHARLES M. BLOW from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gzWNDX

What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common

By BY JENNIFER SENIOR from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/36MQrfT

Trump Postpones G7 Summit and Calls for Russia to Attend

By BY MAGGIE HABERMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cisePJ

Thousands Protest George Floyd’s Death In N.Y.C.

By BY YOUSUR AL-HLOU AND EMILY RHYNE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Am8oWs

A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’

By BY FRANCES ROBLES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2MdZzR9

Tear gas and burning cars in US cities as unrest continues

The protests, which began in Minneapolis following Floyd's death Monday after a police officer pressed a knee on his neck for more than eight minutes, have left parts of the city a grid of broken windows, burned-out buildings and ransacked stores. The unrest has since become a national phenomenon as protesters decry years of deaths at police hands. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/3gD8A4j

Queer in quarantine: Verbal assaults, bullying & crass jokes make quarantine experience a nightmare for transgenders

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28% of Covid patients asymptomatic: ICMR Study

At least 28% of 40,184 people who tested positive for Covid-19 between January 22 and April 30 in India were asymptomatic, a study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) shows, underlining that a large proportion of those tested and found positive were family contacts who did not display symptoms. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3djEpgy

Donald Trump postpones G7 meeting

Donald Trump postpones G7 meetingThe US president said he had not yet set a new date for the meeting, but thought the gathering could take place in September, around the time of the annual meeting of the United Nations in New York, or perhaps after the U.S. election in November. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/3cjbVlR

8pm saturday

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Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot from SpaceX Rocket Launch

By BY PETER BAKER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3gJZF1d

Casteist slurs made on mobile phone not an offence under SC/ST Act: HC

The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that casteist remarks made over mobile phone against a member of the Scheduled Caste community does not constitute any offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XhriqB

Ailing passengers among 81 dead on Shramik Specials

A total of 80 people died on board Shramik Special trains between May 9 and May 27, among them cancer patien​ts, those suffering from heart ailments, a few with paralysis and many who were too ill to travel. Data accessed by TOI showed that among those who lost their lives were a 63-year-old cancer patient, Indu Devi, who died on way from Mumbai to Bihar on May 12. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2McQ18W

BJP set to technology-driven political activities ahead of Bihar polls

Speaking at a media interaction, party chief J P Nadda made it clear that the ruling BJP plans to use new technology in a big way, in the time of social distancing, to campaign and reach out to people essentially on how the Modi government tackled the situation on the ground, arising out of the spread of the deadly virus, to provide health and economic security to save the lives people in the country. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dkam8v

Photos From the Protests in 29 Cities Over Racism and Police Violence

By BY WEIYI CAI, JULIETTE LOVE AND JUGAL K. PATEL from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dkl3aW

Draw a Self-Portrait

By BY CARSON ELLIS from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/36LkuVb

George Floyd Protests: A Timeline

By BY DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XhWhmk

Here’s What You Need to Know About Breonna Taylor’s Death

By BY RICHARD A. OPPEL JR. from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3eAuQdj

America Is a Tinderbox

By BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2AjyYzu

Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show

By BY JULIAN E. BARNES, ADAM GOLDMAN AND NICHOLAS FANDOS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3eA2AY2

How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away With Murder

By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3cgI3qf

New York City, Battered by Outbreak, Finally Moves Toward Reopening

By BY ALAN FEUER AND ANDY NEWMAN from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2zH8Q1q

Ajit Jogi, first C’garh CM and consummate politician, dies at 74

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7,700+ new Covid-19 cases, deaths up by 270

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Only 71 of 3,840 Shramik trains were diverted: Railway board chief

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Centre delinks site promoting online drug sale from Setu

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Rift between Hizb and ISI? Flutter in J&K over ‘attempt’ on Salahuddin’s life

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George Floyd Was Pinned Down for Nearly 3 Minutes After He Became Unresponsive, Prosecutors Say

By BY SARAH MERVOSH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2zBC0iK

China and the Rhineland Moment

By BY BRET STEPHENS from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gE2vo7

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

By BY LARA TAKENAGA AND JONATHAN WOLFE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dkR0A0

A Continent Reopens

By BY PATRICK KINGSLEY AND LAETITIA VANCON from NYT World https://ift.tt/3diaoNV

Ex-Officer Charged in Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

By BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR, TIM ARANGO AND MANNY FERNANDEZ from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Am86Pv

George Floyd Worked With Officer Charged in His Death

By BY MATT FURBER, AUDRA D. S. BURCH AND FRANCES ROBLES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XeUwGB

Tough Nut to Crack

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THURSDAY

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For Muzaffarpur, child-killer disease a bigger scare even in Covid times

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Entire nation, except govt, heard cries of migrants: Sonia Gandhi

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