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When the Stakes Are This High, Models Matter

Behind the scenes, technology has been playing an important role in developing models that are informing how public health officials track COVID-19 cases, respond to potential hot spots, and prepare policymakers for the next stages in our collective response.




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Innovating Together in the Midst of COVID-19

Hosting our own hackathon was a chance to contribute to the COVID-19 response, and an opportunity to build new relationships with staff we don’t typically work with, promote the ideas of others, and encourage staff to leverage their creativity to think about problems.




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Providing Vulnerable Older Adults with Nutritious Meals During COVID-19

In the United States, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported have been among adults ages 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.




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19 and Me: A COVID-19 Risk Calculator

Our team wanted to empower people to make sense of the vast amount of information and to make more informed decisions. 19 and Me helps quantify people’s risk of contracting COVID-19 and visualize how behaviors, such as practicing social distancing, handwashing, and wearing personal protective equipment, can change people’s risk level.




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The UX Booth




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India should talk directly to Taliban, says U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad

The territory of Afghanistan must not be used against the United States, our allies and in fact the world




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Contempt for labour: On dilution of labour laws

Centre should not allow exemptions from welfare laws for workers mooted by States




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Corrections and Clarifications — May 9, 2020

In a Business page story titled “PFC has $6.8 bn NPAs in thermal loan book” (May 8, 2020), there was an erroneous reference to the company, Power Fina



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Letters to the Editor — May 9, 2020

Living in dangerThe industrial disaster is a redux of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 (Page 1, “Vizag gas leak claims 11 lives; over 350 hospitalised”




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Slower growth and a tighter fiscal

India slid into the pandemic crisis in the backdrop of economic downslide; fiscal stimulus has to be structured




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Shaping India’s response in a global hinge moment

The most important improvements concern its national security structures and their work, and flexibility in thinking




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Eradicate it: On female genital mutilation

Sudan’s decision to end female genital mutilation builds on its political transition




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There’s no business like the booze business unless it is the building business

Cricket captains who know their jobs are always ahead of the game, placing a fielder where the ball is expected to go, and anticipating what will happ




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Thus spake Pei Mei

A little-known curve-flattening hack that anyone can learn and perform in the comfort of their own quarantine




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Vanishing wizards of the night

The fiesty flying squirrel, also called the magic cat, is the hero of every villager’s spooky story




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Opinion | An Indian army that can now be led by a woman

A female general at the helm of the force is no longer beyond the realm of possibility thanks to a far-sighted ruling of the Supreme Court that finally lets women take roles of command




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Insider relief

In 2013, Sandeep Aggarwal admitted that he had tipped off a fund manager in 2009 that a deal was brewing between Yahoo and Microsoft




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Opinion | Pressures for a landmark peace deal in Manipur

Rebel leader R.K. Meghen’s presence in Manipur could be a crucial factor




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Caste curse

While the wheels of justice appear to be rolling, it’s the medieval mindset on display that refuses to yield




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Opinion | WhatsApp must watch out for us

Both Google and WhatsApp’s owner Facebook Inc seemed to shrug off the implications to people’s need for online confidentiality




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Opinion | From Clinton to Trump, India’s soft power is the bridge

Indian expats provided the glue to repair this otherwise dysfunctional relationship




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Opinion | Stay calm and wait

On Monday, a constable and a civilian were killed in northeast Delhi, the site of the clashes, and 37 other cops were injured




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Did Namaste Trump optics help Modi or Brand India?

It’s time to revisit a nation building brand campaign, without religion and politics




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Opinion | Myopic truce

As US troops withdraw, the Taliban promise to give terrorists no sanctuary, work with elected leaders, and let peace prevail




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COVID-19: As RBI enters the ring, government needs to go beyond the ropes

Europe has focused more on firms and the US on them as well as individuals, India has so far focused on the poor.This is not a time to focus on the fisc. A package to save our firms is urgently needed to set the multiplier effect rolling