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TopicCoronavirus

Topic: Coronavirus

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.

Amarnath Yatra is likely to be called off as Covid cases surge

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The decision on Amarnath Yatra is taken by an advisory committee in J&K administration. The Centre can also recommend the same. The final call is taken by a shrine committee.

PM Modi chairs meeting of Union Council of Ministers amid Covid crisis

PTI -
The meeting of the council of ministers is the first in the aftermath of the second wave of Covid in the country.

Army cap on premature retirement to continue as Covid has hit recruitment since last year

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Currently, only 0.05 per cent (or 1 out of 2,000) retirement requests are being processed, only on compassionate grounds. This is likely to continue until 2022.

Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee passes away due to Covid-19

PTI -
The 91-year-old had served as the Attorney General for India from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004.

India’s Covid resurgence prompts South Africa to consider additional curbs

Paul Vecchiatto -
President Cyril Ramaphosa eased Covid restrictions in March, scrapping most limits on alcohol sales, shortening a night-time curfew and permitting larger public gatherings.

An India-like deadly Covid wave will have worse consequences in Africa, top health body warns

Katarina Hoije -
India’s role as a vaccine manufacturer means the crisis could have a knock-on effect on global rollout effort, said director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Brazil hunts for vaccines as India’s Covid crisis slows deliveries globally

Samy Adghirni -
Pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro is mounting as lawmakers investigate his government’s response to a pandemic that’s taken the lives of nearly 400,000 Brazilians.

‘We will conquer’ — a Delhi lawyer’s musical tribute to ‘miracle workers’ on Covid frontline

Tenzin Zompa -
With the song 'Hum honge kamyab ek din' playing in the background, short video by Neoma Gupta salutes all the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers fighting the virus every day.

Inside a Mumbai Covid war room: 16 staff, phones that ring every minute, ‘eat when you can’

Angana Chakrabarti -
ThePrint spent hours at a ward-level Covid war room where a team of 16 fielded calls from patients looking for hospital beds. The past month, staff say, has been among the busiest.

Everyone in India is battling the virus, and a flawed government

Mihir Sharma -
Even in the face of an unprecedented emergency, state and federal officials seem more interested in point-scoring and blame-shifting than in cooperation.
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Rajnath Singh is discovering India-Pakistan civilisational ties

+TFP Praveen Swami -
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.

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Economy

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

Shubhangi Misra -
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. 

Defence

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

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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