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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicCoronavirus

Topic: Coronavirus

Covid-19 hits print media hard — ads and circulation dip, editions see major digital push

Newspapers make fervent pleas to readers, point out they are safe and that coronavirus cannot be transmitted through paper.

Modi’s demonetisation will be of use during the coronavirus lockdown

Modi govt's overnight, ill-conceived, egotistic decision that left lakhs of people jobless and paralysed India’s informal economy 3 yrs ago may just give some returns.

A second coronavirus shockwave is hitting Chinese factories now

Emerging pattern of shipment cancellations poses grave risk to chances the world’s second-largest economy can repair damage from closures in February.

20 Indian institutes working to find Covid-19 vaccine, IITs focused on portable ventilators

Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, says govt has received over 7,000 tech-based proposals from private companies and individuals to fight Covid-19.

India shouldn’t struggle with Covid-19 lockdown. It organises Kumbh Mela much better

Days into PM Modi’s national lockdown to fight coronavirus, there was chaos in India. Doctors didn’t have gears, people panicked and essential supplies were being stopped.

With over 85,000 cases, US has the world’s highest number of Covid-19 infections

US has reported at least 263 deaths and the most number of fatalities due to the contagion on a single day Thursday.

These airlines could go bankrupt due to the coronavirus crisis

Using Z-score method to predict bankruptcies, Bloomberg News filtered out listed commercial airlines to identify the ones most at risk of going bust.

Kolkata Police arrests over 450 persons for defying lockdown orders

Kolkata Police made the arrests Thursday while patrolling and naka-checking. People have been held for violating the Total Safety Restrictions.

This is the team advising PM Modi in India’s battle against coronavirus

Over 30 doctors & scientists are part of Modi’s team, divided into 2 groups. Niti Aayog member V.K. Paul and PSA to PM K. VijayRaghavan are leading them.

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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

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.