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Saturday, November 22, 2025
TopicCOVID-19

Topic: COVID-19

Muzzling the ICMR — Why we know so little about Covid-infection levels in India

It’s a telling commentary on India’s healthcare system that for weeks the ICMR and health ministry are ‘reconciling data’ on test positivity.

Bad food, water fights, 2 toilets for 240 — Bihar’s migrants come home to a different crisis

Migrant labourers returning to Bihar from around the country are first kept in quarantine centres for 14 days before being allowed to go home.

RBI cuts lending rate by 40 bps to record low, says Indian economy will shrink this fiscal

In his statement, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said inflation will remain high in the first half of the fiscal, but will stay below the 4% target later.

Covid vaccine could come by 2020-end but realistic time-frame would be 2 yrs: Adar Poonawalla

At Off The Cuff, SII CEO Adar Poonawalla says his company has made a deal with its partners to provide at least 50% of Covid vaccine doses to India.

Dharavi is not just fighting coronavirus, but also dirty toilets and battered image

One of Asia’s biggest slums, Dharavi has a population density that makes social distancing — the key Covid-19 prevention measure — nearly impossible.

The 3 big unknowns that have forced Nirmala Sitharaman to be prudent with economic package

The future of Covid-19 in India and its impact on the economy and govt revenues is unknown, so it’s better not to exhaust all options by May.

Come to your balcony today, wear black, slam Uddhav — BJP gives ‘bartan bajaao’ political twist

Shiv Sena and Congress have criticised BJP’s 22 May protest campaign that urges people to dress in black and display placards against Uddhav Thackeray govt.

India takes up locust problem with Pakistan, hopes it will ‘rise above narrow-minded approach’

India has offered to cooperate with Pakistan to tackle an onslaught of locusts that threatens to raze vast swathes of crops.

Maharashtra to Gujarat & Tamil Nadu — here’s what states with high Covid counts are allowing

As states take charge of the lockdown 4.0 in their regions, here is a list of what is being allowed and what remains restricted.

Across Bihar, migrants returning from Delhi top list of new Covid positive cases

Bihar has found 249 migrants returning from Delhi positive for Covid-19, while the figures for Maharashtra and Gujarat are 187 and 158, respectively.

On Camera

India’s labour policy left it unable to compete with other eastern economies: Nani A Palkhivala

Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.