India locks down IT hub as virus cases top 900,000

BANGALORE: India’s IT hub Bangalore went into a new weeklong lockdown on Tuesday as the number of coronavirus cases surged, while economic data from Singapore to Britain revealed the shocking extent of the damage wrought by the global pandemic. India joins a raft of countries and cities across the globe to re-impose restrictions in the face of new outbreaks of the disease. After imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late...