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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.

212 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Mumbai, taking total to 993, says BMC

PTI -
The BMC release also informed that the death toll of coronavirus patients in the city reached 64 after 10 people died Friday.

Delhi’s Bengali Market sweet shop owner booked for housing workers in ‘unhygienic conditions’

Samyak Pandey -
Police say the 35 workers found on the rooftop of the sweet shop in Delhi's Bengali Market area are being shifted to a shelter.

137 cases registered against people for stepping out without masks in New Delhi

PTI -
Out of 137 cases, 32 were registered in Delhi's northwest district, 23 in south district, 20 in north district, 14 in outer district & 14 in Shahdara district.

How zakat, the traditional charity tax, is helping Pakistan fight its coronavirus battle

Simrin Sirur -
Several people in Pakistan offering zakat, usually given around Ramzan, early to help poor and needy who are especially vulnerable to the pandemic.

10 days after Tablighi leader ‘disappeared’, lawyer says he’s in self-quarantine, not hiding

Ananya Bhardwaj -
According to the lawyer, the Tablighi Jamaat leader Mohammad Saad will join the police investigation after 14 April.

French researcher who pushed HCQ for Covid-19 is caught in hope vs hype controversy

Marthe Fourcade -
Iconoclastic doctor Didier Raoult wrote a paper comparing coronavirus to common cold & was giving hydroxychloroquine to Covid-19 patients.

Smriti Irani’s DIY mask tutorial, Anurag Kashyap’s smoke signals & wheels within wheels

Fiza Jha -
The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

What will schools do after 14 April? HRD minister to speak to states and decide

Kritika Sharma -
HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will hold video conference with education ministers of different states after 14 April to discuss next course of action.

Not everyone can wear a mask and all hail ‘Queen Hydroxychloroquine’

Shubhangi Misra -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Red, hot, spicy thing to do’: Airlines connect on social media as planes stay grounded

Revathi Krishnan -
The playful banter began when IndiGo poked fun at fellow airline Air Vistara asking 'not flying higher these days we heard?' with the hashtag #StayingParkedStayingSafe.
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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

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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