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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: COVID-19

UN Security Council to discuss coronavirus pandemic in closed session on 9 April

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will participate as a briefer. It remains to be seen whether any press statement on the COVID-19 situation is issued after the meeting.

Why it’s still hard to predict who will die from Covid-19

In past epidemics, death & survival were attributed to providence or fortune. Modern medicine & science provide a better understanding of different outcomes.

Hundreds stuck at sealed India-Nepal border. Govts must manage flow better in Covid-19 times

Migrant workers from Nepal are facing lack of food and shelter after India announced a 21-day lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus.

Why fixing unorganised sector can be Modi’s biggest Covid-19 economic challenge

As millions are reduced to subsistence living consumption is set to spiral lower, weighing on a sector that makes up 60% of India’s economy.

Doctors, nurses, paramedics, healthcare can be India’s new engine of growth after Covid-19

Indian planners need to start thinking of tomorrow’s battles. Healthcare, one of its biggest weaknesses, could also be its growth plan.

World Health Day 2020 comes at critical juncture as countries fight Covid-19 pandemic

This year's theme honours the crucial role played by nurses and midwives in providing quality healthcare.

UK PM Boris Johnson moved to ICU, on oxygen as Covid-19 worsens

British PM Boris Johnson remains conscious and was moved to intensive care. He is receiving oxygen but is not on a ventilator.

More than ventilators, India needs thousands of coronavirus contact-tracers

Contact tracing can be important to prevent transmission, in both containment and mitigation phases of pandemic response.

Covid-19 brings back wartime powers. But Korea and Japan show why they are not needed

Barring East Asian nations, countries across the world have invoked urgent legal-constitutional provisions, including wartime powers & state of emergency.

Punjab’s high Covid-19 death rate triggers political mudslinging, Badal alleges negligence

SAD president Sukhbir Badal’s allegations against Amarinder Singh’s Congress govt began after the death of Padma Shri awardee singer Nirmal Singh Khalsa.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.