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Monday, December 15, 2025
TopicCoronavirus

Topic: Coronavirus

In quarantine, Bollywood is trying to give a cool tag to household chores. I say not cool

Coronavirus, which has serious implications for the poor, is just another opportunity for Bollywood stars to make inane videos and keep their fans hooked.

Oral history work goes remote as 1947 Partition Archive opts to ‘work-from-home’

The Archive's work typically involves conducting in-person interviews with individuals who are 75+, an age group particularly vulnerable to coronavirus.

Covid-19: Kaushik Basu on police cooperation, Harsh Mander calls lockdown ‘anti-poor’

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Kaushik Basu, Harsh Mander, Guy Ryder & many others.

Why Rs 1.7-lakh crore relief package may not mean an equivalent fiscal hit in 2020-21

Some of the expenditures announced by the Modi government have already been accounted for in the Union Budget presented in February.

Modi’s CV is full of crisis management experience, but war on Covid may be his toughest job

From Kutch earthquake to Gujarat riots, Modi is no stranger to crisis management. But Coronavirus pandemic is going to test his leadership skills like no other.

‘Easier to survive in village’ — it’s a long journey home for Delhi labourers with no work

Robbed of their daily income, daily wage earners and labourers sit out the nationwide lockdown cramped in tiny shanties in cities or in villages.

3 test positive for coronavirus in Bihar, total number of cases in state rise to 9

Out of the three cases, two are staff members of a private hospital, where a Covid-19 patient was admitted last week, and the third had recently returned from Dubai.

Not enough grains to manufacture atta, maida, sooji as lockdown hits supply chain

Stakeholders say lack of labour and disruption in supply chain have led to shortage of raw materials to manufacture essential commodities like atta, besan and other products.

Why India’s experience in eradicating polio is unlikely to help in fight against Covid-19

India managed to successfully eradicate polio but the fight spanned decades and came with the help of a low-cost oral vaccine. 

It is war. Modi govt must deploy Indian military to fight coronavirus

Countries like US, Italy, China, Spain have realised why military deployment could be the only way to win the war against an unseen enemy.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

Rupee’s turmoil has echoes of 2013

With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.