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Friday, April 3, 2026

PoV

Online classrooms during Covid-19 mean students should demand fee discounts

Classroom spaces are conducive to interaction, force students to engage and promote peer learning but all that has stopped due to Covid-19 pandemic.

‘Corona’ is not just a virus. Indians are using it as a slur against people from northeast

Several people from northeast India are facing racial attacks. A woman from Manipur was spat on and called 'corona' by a man in Delhi.

Quarantined and alone due to corona, I never felt more connected with my friends and family

The Covid-19 pandemic is turning out to be a reset button, with the virtual world of Google Hangouts, Zoom and Skype connecting people forced into keeping a distance.

Video gamers have the last laugh as e-sports industry booms during Covid-19 lockdown

Social distancing enforced by coronavirus will increase the market value of the e-sports industry which is already estimated to touch $2 billion by the end of 2021.

RWAs acting like the first line of defence against coronavirus. They are Modi’s soldiers

Besides sharing WHO advisories on coronavirus, RWAs are also behaving like private republics, banning domestic workers and delivery men from entering the gate.

Fines, not fear, will work for Indian ‘daredevils’ using coronavirus off-time to socialise

PM Narendra Modi asked for a daylong ‘janata curfew’. But for Indians to do this for a longer period, there has to be rewards or fines.

India’s rich are passing coronavirus to the poor, but not offering monetary help

Be it Akshay Kumar or Anurag Kashyap, Ambanis or Adanis, India's wealthy have yet to open their hearts, let alone their purse, in times of coronavirus.

Shut bars don’t mean you start throwing house parties, and being host to coronavirus

Teens partying in Germany or those gallivanting at a spring break in the US have acted nothing less than bio hazards, probably infecting hundreds of people.

JSTOR’s paywall is still alive, but it’s trying to score brownie points during a pandemic

To show solidarity during the coronavirus crisis, JSTOR has announced free access to over 6,000 books and 150 journals. Great news, right? Except it’s not.

From Ola to Zomato to social media, I now hide my Muslim identity everywhere

Dear liberal Indians, I consciously try not to sound or look like a Muslim around you because of your Islamophobia.

On Camera

I was an Indian student in Melbourne and this is the daily racism I faced

I spent a year as an international student in Melbourne and experienced racism first-hand, which made me second-guess and shrink parts of myself just to go about everyday life.

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.