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India allows rural poor to work amid COVID-19 lockdown
NEW DELHI: Millions of people in rural India will be allowed back to work next week despite a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the government said Wednesday (Apr 15), as it conceded the hardships of shutting its vital farming economy were too great.
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by area, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.