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A total of 509 returnees from Bengaluru, including 383 men and 126 women, made up the first batch to be quarantined at the facility | Yimkumla Longkumer | ThePrint

How Nagaland Police built Dimapur’s Covid quarantine centre that can host more than 1,000

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Preacher Wasim reads prayers at the funeral of Azhar, a seven-month-old who died of Covid-19 Friday | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

‘Don’t know Delhi, had nothing to eat’ — AIIMS buries 7-month-old as family heads home to MP

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Ahmed is a patient of hypertension, yet he recovered from coronavirus | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Be strong, says 106-year-old Covid survivor who saw the Spanish Flu, lost family to earthquake

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At the Humayun's Tomb children play in the garden | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Temperature checks, sanitisers, social distancing — Delhi monuments welcome back visitors

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Shaji John's family at his funeral Saturday at the Alpha Omega Christian Welfare Cemetery in Mongolpuri | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Delhi dad returned home last week after Covid treatment. Today his family buried him

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Residents of a remote area of Dhubri, a district in Assam, travel on boats to reach their houses. The flooded areas through which the boats traverse are paddy fields | Yimkumla Longkumer | ThePrint

Covid forced them out of cities, now the Bramhaputra is forcing them to move homes in Assam

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An old man sits across the roadside in Panbazar | Photo: Yimkumla Longkumer | ThePrint

Arrests for violations, drones to monitor — how Guwahati is ensuring lockdown is a success

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A swarm of desert locusts was seen in Baghai village in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. The desert locust is among the most destructive migratory pests as it can eat its own body weight in vegetation | Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Locusts swarm over UP district, villagers rush out banging pots and pans to protect fields

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Assam's Dhubri district struggled to cope with the massive influx of returnees. Waste from the quarantine facility was strewn all around a nearby plot. Residents rued that the garbage bags contain discarded PPE kits, food items and medical equipment that has triggered a health risk. | Photo: Yimkumla Longkumer | ThePrint

Registration, Covid test, mass quarantine — how Assam’s Dhubri coped with big migrant influx

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A health worker draws a blood sample as part of the serological survey in Delhi | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Serological survey kicks off in Delhi as national capital’s Covid cases surge

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Opinion

How Assam’s Goalpara jumped 58 points on the Aspirational District ranking during Covid-19

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#HeroesOfTheDay campaigns, insurance for medical staff — Goalpara Deputy Commissioner, Varnali Deka, writes on how her district fought Covid and other crises.
IAF's Rafale fighter jet enters Indian airspace for the first time | Photo: ANI

The long list of misses, and few hits, in India’s defence acquisitions

US President Donald Trump, left, Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, center, and Narendra Modi at G-20 summit in Osaka | Photo: Carl Court/Pool via Bloomberg

Japan, Swadeshi Jagran Manch and BCCI: Why Modi’s China headache just got bigger this week

Economy

HDFC

RBI confirms Sashidhar Jagdishan as next CEO of HDFC Bank

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Sashidhar Jagdishan, currently working as 'change agent' of the largest private sector lender and head of finance, has been with HDFC Bank since 1996.

Defence

Representational image of the Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh, which borders on China | Photo: Commons

Himachal’s plan to counter China — train personnel in Chinese, residents in guerrilla warfare

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Plan with 12 ‘high points’, drawn up by Himachal DGP Sanjay Kundu at the behest of Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, sent to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for action.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint

Modi govt’s NEP is out of touch with reality, Indian voters want English-medium education

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State leaders with their ear to the ground, like Nitish, Mamata and Yogi, have shown that the push for native language education is not what voters want.
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