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Topic: Coronavirus

How will Covid-19 crisis shape world order and relations with China

In episode 447 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains how the democratic world will respond to China once the Covid-19 crisis ends.

Indian health data will miss recording many Covid and lockdown deaths

Covid-19 impacts are assessed based on case fatality rate. But how will government effectively respond if one in five deaths in India are not registered in any database?

20 Indian Navy personnel test positive for coronavirus, more results awaited

New Delhi: A total of 20 sailors at the INS Angre, a stone frigate under the Western Naval Command in Mumbai, have tested positive...

Coronavirus cases rise to 1,707 in New Delhi after 67 fresh cases reported on Friday

With 4 more fatalities reported, the death toll from Covid-19 in Delhi has jumped to 42, while the number of containment zones were increased to 68.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’ will soon detect coronavirus in minutes, thanks to CSIR scientists

Scientists at Delhi’s CSIR-IGIB have developed a paper-based test strip for Covid-19, and named it after the fictional detective created by Satyajit Ray.

Uddhav Thackeray has failed to handle Covid crisis. Bring in Army to save Mumbai

As coronavirus spreads through slums of Mumbai, there isn’t much hope resting on Uddhav Thackeray's government to contain it. Look at its blunders so far.

June Almeida — the woman who discovered first coronavirus but was told she was wrong

June Almeida, who dropped out of school at 16 because she couldn’t afford it, went on to become a pioneer in virology.

Covid hasn’t gone viral in India yet, but some in the world & at home can’t accept the truth

India isn’t going through a picnic. But our drains aren’t filled with bodies, hospitals haven’t run out of beds, crematoriums and graveyards not out of wood or space.

Punjab govt approves plasma therapy on critically-ill top cop battling Covid-19

Ludhiana's Assistant Commissioner of Police Anil Kohli is admitted at Apollo Hospital, where the therapy will be performed.

UP’s decision to evacuate students from Kota irks Bihar while MP, Chhattisgarh follow suit

Uttar Pradesh sent 300 buses to Rajasthan’s coaching hub to evacuate students, but Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who refused to take back students, has cried foul.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?