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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.

UK to receive first batch of 3 million paracetamol packets from India by Sunday

PTI -
The shipment will coincide with a series of charter flights arranged by the UK government to fly out British residents stranded in India's Covid-19 lockdown.

Covid-19 innovations are similar to those in another era of duress — the Second World War

Peter Beech -
The capability of human ingenuity is on full display during the Covid-19 crisis, just like it was during the Second World War.

Medical professionals attacked in Meerut while trying to take Covid-19 patient to hospital

PTI -
A senior UP govt official said that four people were arrested for the incident, and would be taken action against under the National Security Act.

Centre says Mamata govt not enforcing lockdown in some pockets and lists ‘Muslim areas’

Madhuparna Das -
In a letter dated 10 April, Union home ministry says gradual dilution of lockdown being reported from West Bengal, seeks ‘urgent report’. 

Donations to PM CARES allowed under CSR, but not to states or CMs: Corporate ministry 

Remya Nair -
A set of FAQs released by the ministry clarified that contributions to the PM CARES fund and ex-gratia payment to casual workers come under CSR spending.

Puducherry reports first Covid-19 death as 71-year old man dies in Kannur hospital

PTI -
The man, who hails from Union Territory of Puducherry’s Mahé district, had gone to Kannur for treatment for coronavirus.

Migrant crisis could’ve been averted if Modi’s One Nation One Ration Card scheme was ready

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Currently, the scheme is operational only in 12 states, but the govt says it will meet its June 2020 deadline for the rest of India.

Why India doesn’t have an edge in exports of azithromycin, the other Covid-19 ‘wonder drug’ 

Himani Chandna -
Unlike hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), several other countries also produce azithromycin, an antibiotic for bacterial infections. 

This is how India’s Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan spent his Good Friday

Himani Chandna -
Online & offline meetings with health ministers & global experts, daily briefings - no rest for Dr Harsh Vardhan during Covid-19 pandemic.

North Korea still says it has no coronavirus cases. This is how it’s managing the story

Niki J.P. Alsford -
Controlling information – and avoiding any panic – is a central part of how the regime’s leader, Kim Jong-un, holds onto power.
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Opinion

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

India’s edible oil market is facing reduced demand. Increased import duty not a fix

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Economy

India’s manufacturing workers saw prices rise faster than incomes even as their productivity fell

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Latest Annual Survey of Industries 2022-23 shows large segments of India’s manufacturing workforce are employed in low-productivity work, value added per worker has contracted.

Defence

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Smruti Deshpande -
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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?

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