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Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowOfficial Covid deaths exceeded 200,000 in India. The real toll is likely to be far...

Zoom wants your next video call to feel more like you and your friends, family, or colleagues are hanging out in the same room. On April 26,...

South Africa has the highest number of Covid-19 cases on the African continent. It has more than 50,000 reported deaths. This may be an unde...

After suffering and recovering last year, India’s online grocers have once again been debilitated by Covid-19’s relentless resurgence.The Co...

India has fully vaccinated only about 23 million people, not even 10% of the 300 million it aims to inoculate by August. Lest we forget, the...

Celebrated actor Daniel Kaluuya’s recent win at the Academy Awards on April 25 has united and divided Ugandans almost in equal measure.The c...

India’s medical fraternity has had it with Narendra Modi.Dr Navjot Dahiya, vice-president of the Indian Medical Association, a voluntary org...

Workers in Bengaluru’s garment industry are facing a dire situation.The city is home to one of the biggest clusters of garment manufacturers...

Hello Quartz readers,At 7:52pm on April 17, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old journalist in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, tweete...

Software company Basecamp has released a controversial new memo banning political discussions on company platforms, among other changes to i...

As a gay man living in Israel, creating a family was a long and arduous journey. To legally marry my partner, we had to travel to Canada, an...

A functioning vaccination program would appear to be the strongest weapon for halting the unrelenting march of India’s second Covid-19 wave....

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US is releasing its stockpile of 60 million AstraZeneca doses. Many are likely...

A video of a professor calling her students “bloody bastards” has sparked outrage around how minorities are treated at India’s elite institu...

Even as a brutal second wave of Covid-19 spreads death and despair through the length and breadth of India, it’s business as usual for the c...

It’s like India learned nothing about economic management from the first wave of Covid-19!The Indian central bank yesterday (April 26) warne...

“Can you tell me again how you are related to the patient?” Sangeeta Patil of the Malpa Dongri municipal school, one of the 50-odd teachers...

Ray Dalio loves personality tests. The billionaire founder of Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, which doubles as a kind of workpl...

After a year in which hardly anyone went to the movies, the Oscars made a perplexing decision to not show off its nominated films and perfor...

There are only two proven methods of halting, or at least mitigating, the worst impact of the pandemic. One is the “zero Covid” strategy ado...

After more than a year of pandemic, a lot of people are sick of Zoom—including the organizers of the 93rd Academy Awards.The Oscars were hel...

The Covid-19 pandemic is widening the income gap between sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world, according to the IMF, risking greater...

Business journalism is not just writing about men in suits, reporting from boardrooms, and dealing with complex numbers, says Alexis Akwagyr...

Normally, the recipient of an award as prestigious as an Oscar is celebrated in their home town or country, but in China, where this year’s...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowNomadland dominated the Oscars. It won best picture, with awards for director Chloé...