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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicCoronavirus pandemic

Topic: Coronavirus pandemic

How Covid supercharged world’s takeout culture and left a big mess

Food delivery workers have been praised as heroes during the Covid pandemic. But downside to all that convenience has been a massive pileup of waste.

School closures are stressing our kids and threatening their future

The pandemic is testing us all with volatile, uncertain and complex times. Our children are going through it, too. And keeping them out of school makes it much worse.

Can’t pay rent or salaries, how Covid & lack of govt funds are shutting down skill centres

Some skilling centres have shut shop, while some are unable to pay salaries to their staff. Govt cites budget constraints for delay in disbursing payments to the centres.

Time to return to our regularly scheduled pandemic

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aggregate forecasts show cases plateauing in coming weeks in hard-hit states like Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

We have to adapt to the new post-Covid world, says Modi at virtual summit with Italian PM

Calling the Covid-19 pandemic a watershed event in history like World War 2, PM Modi said focus should be on ways to deal with the disease's adverse impact.

Lives & livelihoods are interdependent, can’t go back to how things were, says WHO chief

At a virtual summit, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says focus should remain on helping the vulnerable population and that people must learn to live with social distancing.

150-175 million people will fall into extreme poverty due to Covid fallout, says UN expert

Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter said most of those who will fall into extreme poverty will be informal sector workers or in precarious employment conditions, especially women.

Wealth of Indian, Chinese households grew in 2020 first half despite pandemic, report says

Only China & India saw gains, growing by 4.4% & 1.6%, respectively. Latin America suffered the most, with a 13% plunge, as currency devaluations aggravated losses.

1 in 6 kids lived in extreme poverty before Covid, condition to worsen globally — UN report

Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia consisted of 84 per cent of the world's extremely poor children, out of which India and Nigeria accounted for the most.

Comparison between India and Bangladesh GDP misleading — former chief economic advisor

In a Twitter thread, Arvind Subramanian said that GDP per capita is only an estimate for one indicator of the average standard of living or welfare in a country.

On Camera

Violent Indian men are now ideal lovers in Bollywood movies

Kabir Singh started Bollywood's misogyny Olympics. 2025's top contender is Dhanush and Kriti Sanon-starrer Tere Ishk Mein.

New cess on ‘pan masala’ to fund national security and healthcare programmes

The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill, 2025, explained. Oppn has attacked the proposed cess as 'a new financial burden' on the citizens.

After Op Sindoor, India goes in for more Heron Mk IIs; Israel frontrunner for mega MALE drones deal

Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.