![]() Shivakumar inspects Bengaluru metro tunnel work, lauds progress of projects.UPSC Weekly Current Affairs Quiz : July 09 to July 15, 2023.Janhvi Kapoor creates ‘Bawaal’ in her green chiffon sari check out her best sari moments.Rahul Roy decodes what went wrong after Aashiqui, says people offered him something but delivered something else: ‘Outcome was different’.Time will tell but for now it’s at a standstill. There is open and widespread anxiety, especially amongst those in retail and service industries that have shut down. The gamble is that this will pay off in flattening the curve of coronavirus infection rates. There is open and widespread anxiety, especially amongst those in retail and service industries that have shut down as to how they will feed their families in the coming weeks. The shutdown is both desperately needed and painful at a human level. The sweeps of city shutdowns that COVID-19 has created has come to the shores of New York. And it looks like it will stay that way for a while. There were more police officers at this world famous square today than any tourist. A costumed Disney character kicked a crushed Coke can along the road, maybe from a combination of boredom and an obvious lack of custom. A tourist magnet, attracting over 3,00,000 visitors every day, today the blinking neon signs stood shining for a handful of gawkers. (Express Photo: Sagar Rajagopal)Īnd then there was Times Square. The shutdown is both desperately needed and painful at a human level, writes Rajagopal. So I decided to jog through Manhattan from our East Village apartment up to the Times Square area through the typically packed midtown business district. Times Square - a tourist magnet, attracting over 3,00,000 visitors every day, today the blinking neon signs stood shining for a handful of gawkers. Living in Manhattan I had seen this part of the city slowly depopulate over the course of the past week as nearly all offices shifted to a work from home model. My wife, my two children and I had been self quarantining for nearly two weeks and I was aching to get out and stretch my legs. ![]() The Saturday before the shutdown my curiosity got the better of me. The gamble is that the lockdown will pay off in flattening the curve of coronavirus infection rates. The question is, how it will change this city. As of Sunday night 8pm, the city will largely grind to a halt with a shutdown that permits only essential businesses to stay open and asks everyone to remain indoors except for urgent and essential activities.
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