The central government recently advised school systems to limit online learning to a few hours a day. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, India’s minister for human resource development, said this was required to make sure that students didn’t get “overly stretched or stressed.”More than 100 million Indians have lost their jobs. In the early days of the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took swift action. In the process, they spread coronavirus infections into nearly every corner of India. As the economic pain really began to bite, Mr. Modi changed course.

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2020 03:54 UTC