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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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Topic: Coronavirus

Delhi records over 27,000 new Covid cases, 375 deaths in last 24 hours

This is the ninth consecutive day the city has seen daily fatalities of over 300. A total of 10,33,825 people have been cured in Delhi while the total death toll stands at 16,147.

In UP’s two worst-hit districts, the fight is just to get tested

According to UP government, it is conducting 2.25 lakh-2.35 lakh tests every day, but state’s testing/million rate lags below the national average.  

Australians temporarily bars citizens returning from India, to face 5-year jail term or fine

The decision was based on the proportion of overseas travellers in quarantine in Australia, who have contracted the infection in India.

How India’s high courts turned Covid warriors as Centre and states faltered

High courts of Delhi, Madras, Karnataka, Gujarat, Allahabad, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Telangana, Patna, and Bombay often stepped in when govt action was missing or unsatisfactory.

Biden bans travel from India due to high Covid caseload, exempts few categories

Students, academics, journalists & individuals who provide critical support in countries affected by Covid restrictions may qualify for the exception, the State Department said.

Is India back to being ‘Third World’? Irony of an aspiring superpower exposed by Covid crisis

Institutional weakness is a feature of most Third World nations, and explains India’s failure to set up oxygen plants & ramp up vaccine manufacturing. Accountability is missing too.

Mayday, Mayday — How Modi govt led India into a perfect storm

Triumphalism, premature declaration of victory meant no one checked if India had enough vaccines, oxygen, remdesivir, bringing us back to a crisis where we need foreign aid after four decades.

Editors Guild demands govt vaccinate journalists on priority, condoles those who died of Covid

Editors Guild of India remembers 'bravery' of journalists who worked on the frontlines of Covid & succumbed to it. Notes risks many of them, including freelancers, have had to face.

Amarinder says Punjab is open for outside Covid patients even as Chandigarh closes doors

Following a meeting of the Covid control teams from the six worst-hit districts in Punjab, CM Amarinder Singh says India is one country and all its people and resources are common.

Rajnath Singh grants emergency financial powers to armed forces to set up health facilities

The Defence Minister's office said he invoked special provisions to empower the armed forces to speed up efforts in the nationwide fight against Covid-19.

On Camera

Rajnath Singh is discovering India-Pakistan civilisational ties

Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.

Chhattisgarh pitches state as hub for ‘specialty steel’, nets investment plans of Rs 6,321 crore

Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector. 

India eyes more S-400s with upcoming Putin visit, Su-57 likely to stay off radar

Not only did S-400 record its longest hit during India-Pakistan 88-hour conflict, ability of the system to shoot and scoot in a short time, which allows it to evade enemy fire, was also proved.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.