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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.

Juggling e-files & family — how WFH, Covid-19 changed life for govt’s science, tech officers

Mohana Basu -
The Department of Science & Technology knows it holds the key to solving the Covid-19 problem. Here’s how it has changed its functioning in this time of crisis.

Why a total lockdown of India after 14 April will be counter-productive

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi’s 3-week lockdown has worked. An overdose of it can hurt more than help. It should be systematically loosened or de-escalated.

It was Rahul’s warning that helped Bhilwara tackle Covid-19, says Sonia at Congress meet

Neelam Pandey -
Speaking to state Congress chiefs, Sonia Gandhi says India would have been in a better position if Modi govt had heeded Rahul advice too.

46 new Covid-19 positive patients in Gujarat, state tally crosses 300

PTI -
Deaths of a 41-year-old and an 81-year-old brought the death toll in the state up to 19 in the last 12 hours.

Amarinder says Punjab seeing community transmission of Covid-19, first CM to declare so

Chitleen K Sethi -
Addressing the media, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh says there are few cases of primary infection in the state now, and most new ones are secondary infections.

Nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases crosses 7,000

PTI -
Union Home Ministry also sought views of state governments on the 21-day lockdown and whether more categories of people and services need to be exempted.

Govt says no proof to link blood donations with Covid-19, issues guidelines for blood banks

Mohana Basu -
To prevent shortage of blood for patients who depend on regular transfusions, the ministry has issued a set of precautionary measures for blood banks. 

Factories in districts with no Covid-19 cases could reopen as Modi govt looks to amend law

Moushumi Das Gupta -
In a bid to restart manufacturing in the country, and improve the economy, the government will allow some factories to operate under strict conditions.

Bihar’s Covid-19 nightmare: 24 patients in a family, 2 Tablighi cases with untraced contacts

Dipak Mishra -
While Bihar was among the first states to get into action to check coronavirus spread, it has been criticised for going easy on testing and screening.

Modi govt asks ‘disillusioned’ IAS officer to rejoin amid Covid-19 crisis, he calls it petty

Sanya Dhingra -
Kannan Gopinathan resigned last August following events in J&K after the govt’s Article 370 move. He said he would help as a ‘free citizen’, but not as an IAS officer.
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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.

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Economy

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

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

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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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