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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.

Will cluster containment defang Covid-19, asks Sardesai & Amish Devgan’s Jamaat blame-game

Kairvy Grewal -
A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

‘100 Hindus’, said to be in Chhattisgarh Tablighi isolation list, complain of social boycott

Prithviraj Singh -
Most people on the list denied participating in Tablighi Jamaat event, saying they visited Delhi for personal work or on business. Govt says there's no such list

Pay private labs to test for Covid-19, it’s the best way to start India’s economic recovery

Ila Patnaik -
As India prepares exit strategy from lockdown, it must heed Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s words — spending a small percentage of GDP on testing can get big gains.

After HCQ, countries begin to call India for the humble pain and fever tablet paracetamol

Himani Chandna -
India produces 5,600 metric tons of paracetamol every month while the domestic requirement is only around 200 metric tons.

Critical drugs supply must not be disrupted, EU envoy says as India bans & resumes exports

Nayanima Basu -
Ambassador Ugo Astuto says EU and India agree that health emergency comes first but economic fallout of Covid-19 also needs to be confronted in parallel.

App for milk, vendors at the gate — how Delhi-NCR’s hotspots managed on Day 1 of ‘sealing’

Revathi Krishnan -
Several coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad were sealed at midnight, while others were sealed Thursday morning amid strict police vigil.

India ready for clinical trial of plasma treatment for critical Covid-19 patients

Swagata Yadavar -
Convalescent plasma therapy has already seen limited clinical trials in China, and has worked on other respiratory diseases like SARS and MERS.

Haryana doubles salaries of healthcare officials and workers fighting Covid-19

Chitleen K Sethi -
The move comes amid a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases in Haryana, which authorities have attributed to the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi last month.

Here’s what Indians are watching during Covid-19 lockdown. Spoiler: It’s not Friends reruns

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
According to an industry survey, users are spending around 12% more time on online streaming platforms during the lockdown period than they did before.

Rations, sanitary napkins distributed in East Delhi amid Covid-19 lockdown

PTI -
Rajendra Pal Gautam, Delhi minister for women and child development, was present at the distribution drive for migrant labourers and victims of the February riots.
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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.

India’s edible oil prices keep rising despite policy shifts. Govt needs a better strategy

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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 -
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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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