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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.

Donkey poop a COVID-19 hack? Kolkata police take down 600 social media posts for ‘rumours’

Madhuparna Das -
The crackdown came after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee warned against the spread of rumours about the coronavirus crisis after the state discovered its first patient.

Chidambaram’s heroic act, Shivraj Chauhan’s bowling & Fawad Hussain’s `humen’

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

‘Govt order’ on Restrictive Movement viral on WhatsApp is actually from Malaysia

Pia Krishnankutty -
The Restricted Movement Order starting 18 March to 31 March was issued by the Malaysian National Security Council in response to a recent spike of COVID-19 infections.

India reports fourth coronavirus death from Punjab, total COVID-19 cases climb to 173

PTI -
Punjab govt has announced the suspension of public transport services from Friday midnight and restricting public gatherings to less than 20 people.

Modi govt COVID-19 advisory: Those above 65, below 10 must stay home, no concessional travel

Himani Chandna -
The Modi govt advisory says no scheduled international commercial passenger aircraft will be allowed to land in India from 22 March for one week.

Horse-trading vs bear market, and Gabbar wants to return Thakur’s hands

Kairvy Grewal -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint

Equities extend rout to 4th day amid fears of coronavirus-induced global recession

PTI -
Bajaj Finance (10.24 %), Maruti (9.85 %) and Axis Bank (9.50 %) were among the top three losers in the Sensex pack.

Work from home, more sick leaves, no visitors: How Modi govt is keeping staff COVID 19-free

Sanya Dhingra -
From regular body temperature checks to constant sanitisation, the government is working to ensure it remains functioning with a healthy staff.

Like Donald Trump, RSS affiliate too wants COVID-19 to be renamed ‘China virus’

Shanker Arnimesh -
RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch’s co-convener Ashwini Mahajan lashed out at China, saying it has spread the coronavirus through unethical means.

‘Work from home impossible with 2G net’ — Abdullah to PM as Kashmir faces COVID-19 lockdown

Azaan Javaid -
Abdullah cited the detection of Kashmir’s first COVID-19 case and said high-speed internet was a necessity because authorities had locked down ‘large parts of the Valley’.
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Asian NATO? Why Japan PM’s big new idea won’t shake up foreign policy

Abhishek Sharma -
One of the most difficult tasks for Shigeru Ishiba, apart from keeping together the divided LDP, will be implementing his foreign policy ideas—if he chooses to pursue them.

Modi’s ‘Billionaire Raj’ is making India more unequal. So, freebies are a necessity

India’s diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific has an economic hole. Fill it with trade, investment

Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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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