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Monday, July 8, 2024
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Topic: Coronavirus

China’s love for wildlife meat to its authoritarianism — how coronavirus got out of hand

In Episode 413 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains China's obsession with exotic meats and how its authoritarian system led COVID-19 grow into a pandemic.

Online is the future of education and thanks to coronavirus it’s already here

From the serious — twilight of the handshake — to the trivial — the end of locker-room access after sporting events — life is expected to be different after the virus burns itself out.

‘World War C’, ‘Pandemonium’, ‘Bloody Thursday’ — papers record first COVID-19 death in India

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

Cancelled sex parties, quarantine porn, kissing ban — how coronavirus is killing sex life

NBA season is off, IPL and Olympics are under a cloud, govts are urging against physical contact — thanks to coronavirus pandemic. But here’s what happens when COVID-19 enters the bedroom.

Pandemic, epidemic, endemic — what these mean and how they are different from each other

The World Health Organization has finally declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, after months of only referring to the coronavirus outbreak as an epidemic.

Corona ‘gyaan’ across channels, Tharoor-Sibal as ‘head & shoulders’ on Times Now

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

US financial markets need to shut down temporarily like they did after 9/11

It’s better to shut down most of the physical economy for 3 weeks rather than shut down a moderate amount of physical economy for 3 months.

After first coronavirus death, govt shares list of helpline numbers for all states & UTs

With a 76-year-old Karnataka man being confirmed as India’s first COVID-19 fatality, the government has stepped up efforts to contain the outbreak.

India doesn’t have too many options to deal with economic impact of coronavirus

India does not have the healthcare infrastructure to cope with the spread of coronavirus, but it can do one thing to minimise the economic shock.

Top Chinese diplomat pushes conspiracy theory that US army is behind coronavirus

With the coronavirus spreading from China into the US and around the world, both nations are trading tit-for-tat claims about its origins.

On Camera

BJP goes ‘headless’ – Why Modi-Shah can’t decide Nadda’s successor

JP Nadda recently appointed in-charges and co-in-charges in 23 states. The problem is that he made these appointments five days after his term as party president was supposedly over.

Jobs, rural India likely to be focus of new Modi government’s first budget, says Goldman Sachs

The budget proposal for the financial year ending March 2025 will be presented on 23 July, the government said over the weekend.

India’s indigenous light tank ‘Zorawar’ unveiled, fastest product development by DRDO, L&T

Tank will go for desert trials later this yr in coordination with Army & eventually high-altitude areas of Ladakh to test its capabilities to operate in such terrain & extreme winters.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.