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Topic: COVID-19

In coronavirus crisis, are RWAs helping or becoming vigilantes?

The coronavirus lockdown has empowered Resident Welfare Associations to ensure social distancing norms to curb the spread of infection.

‘Act responsibly’: Muslim IAS-IPS officers’ plea to community after Tablighi Jamaat episode

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Bhopal’s health dept, led by its IAS secy, becomes new corona hotspot, half city’s cases linked

More than 30 officials of the city's health department have tested positive for Covid-19, and more than 50 cases in the city are related to it.

Centre says Mamata govt not enforcing lockdown in some pockets and lists ‘Muslim areas’

In a letter dated 10 April, Union home ministry says gradual dilution of lockdown being reported from West Bengal, seeks ‘urgent report’. 

As we fight Covid-19, here’s how Edward Jenner developed the world’s first vaccine

To develop a vaccine against novel coronavirus is a challenge but the history of vaccination, which revolutionised global health, gives us hope.

Why India doesn’t have an edge in exports of azithromycin, the other Covid-19 ‘wonder drug’ 

Unlike hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), several other countries also produce azithromycin, an antibiotic for bacterial infections. 

This is how India’s Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan spent his Good Friday

Online & offline meetings with health ministers & global experts, daily briefings - no rest for Dr Harsh Vardhan during Covid-19 pandemic.

Dear Insta influencers, Covid-19 charity is not an excuse to promote your products

While social media marketing is required for independent companies to promote products, Covid-19 crisis is not the appropriate time for that.

Virus brings ‘Digital India’ to govt as papers, meetings make way for e-Office, WhatsApp

Central government ministries have shifted most of their daily business to online platforms in the last two weeks, even as routine work has taken a backseat.

Juggling e-files & family — how WFH, Covid-19 changed life for govt’s science, tech officers

The Department of Science & Technology knows it holds the key to solving the Covid-19 problem. Here’s how it has changed its functioning in this time of crisis.

On Camera

Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

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.