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Topic: COVID-19

Dubai to ease movement curbs as malls, offices slowly reopen

Dubai’s malls will reopen with strict rules, including limiting the number of visitors to 30% of capacity and maintain social distancing.

Unelected Uddhav Thackeray has a month to save CM job. Constitution gives him these options

Amid Covid-19 outbreak, a constitutional crisis is brewing as Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray will complete his allotted 6 months without being a legislator on 28 May.

With lockdown exit uncertain, ‘inflation tax’ can help govt care for those without savings

Printing money, a last resort in financing the deficit, can help move resources from those with some existing savings to those with no existing savings.

People prayed I didn’t get out, now I’m praying no one gets out: Sachin Tendulkar

Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar says he isn’t celebrating his 47th birthday, gives insight into what life has been like for him under Covid-19 lockdown.

We have protected lives, it’s time to protect livelihoods: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on lockdown 

In conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Mazumdar-Shaw said India needs to get back to work after 3 May, when the lockdown ends.

Govt says India working with foreign labs to develop remdesivir, the new Covid-19 hope

At a media briefing Thursday, the MEA said hydroxychloroquine from India continued to be in high demand. 

May-end date likely for pending CBSE Class 10, 12 board exams, if lockdown ends on schedule

CBSE, India’s largest board, has apprised schools of a tentative timeline that will be followed if the lockdown isn’t extended beyond 3 May. 

Punjab curfew proves dangerous for women with 21% spurt in domestic violence complaints

The number of domestic violence complaints registered during the curfew stands at 3,993 as compared to 3,287 between 20 February & 20 March.

Indian banks could add Rs 10 lakh crore in NPAs due to Covid: Ex-finance secretary Garg

In a blog, ex-finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said 80% of bank lending was to non-essential sectors that have completely stopped functioning in the lockdown.

MP goes on PR overdrive, discharges 44 Covid patients with national anthem, rose petals

Police personnel chanted 'Bharat Mata ki jai' as 44 Covid-19 patients were released from a private medical facility in Bhopal. Some patients were garlanded too.

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India has to move on now. Engage with ‘Nooton Bangladesh’

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, in a sense, tasted her own medicine. The International Crimes Tribunal, the special court she instituted for...

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

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.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.