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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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Following the odd-even scheme in the Leh town, only a few shops are opening in famous Leh Market | Photo: Sajid Ali | ThePrint

Covid or China ⁠— which is the bigger threat? People in Leh struggle due to both

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A patient at the Narayana Junior College, a covid care centre, in Vijayawada | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Inside a Covid care centre in Vijayawada: Entertainment room, packed food, balcony break

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A few handlooms are still at work in Sualkuchi, which has been badly hit by the Covid crisis. Here, a weaver makes a traditional Assamese mekhala-sador | Angana Chakrabarti | ThePrint

Little to no demand for silk weaves amid Covid crisis brings many of Assam’s looms to a halt

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Here lab technicians in the screening centre at the Kiranshree Grand Hotel take a breather. The centre has been screening about 500 passengers daily.| Photo: Angana Chakrabarti | ThePrint

From flights, trains straight to quarantine centres — how Assam screens passengers for Covid

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A Vijayawada resident is tested at one of the mobile testing facilities |Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Free tests, result in 48 hours: Inside Vijayawada’s mobile testing facility for Covid-19

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Tirupati temple opens after almost 80 days with temperature checks, masks, social distancing

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Stranded at home & outside station, Odiya workers in Telangana’s brick kilns wait to go back

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On Camera

Opinion

Dear Binod, thank you for saving 2020 from being a total washout

Shubhangi Misra -
It all began when the YouTube channel Slayy Point explored the internet’s garbage dump, ie YouTube’s comments section, and chanced upon a diamond in the trash.
Imran Khan and Xi Jinping

Oil to Kashmir — Why China, not Saudi Arabia, is Pakistan’s only Big Brother now

File photo of the Constitution of India | Commons

India’s democracy crumbling? Constitution shows how to create democracy in unlikely settings

Economy

Dubai

Dubai businesses start growing again for the first time after coronavirus struck

Abeer Abu Omar -
Businesses in Dubai are benefiting from lifting of lockdown restrictions, with foreign visitors allowed to enter. However, a weaker outlook hasn't stopped job losses.

Defence

IAF chief R.K. Bhadauria takes a sortie in HTT-40 last November | Twitter | @HALHQBLR

Defence Ministry clears purchase of indigenous basic trainer aircraft, upgrade of Israeli UAVs

Snehesh Alex Philip -
HAL acquisition among projects worth Rs 8,722.38 crore to be cleared. The upgrade of Israeli Heron UAVs will include arming them, a need being pushed due to stand-off with China.

National Interest

Illustration: Soham Sen | ThePrint

Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version

Shekhar Gupta -
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.
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