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Topic: COVID-19

Rs 3,000 crore and 4 lakh jobs, the price Agra tourism is paying for coronavirus

Apart from hotels, businesses like handicraft emporiums, as well as those engaged in leather, zardozi and marble inlay work, also rely heavily on tourism.

Inside a Covid-19 test facility — no watches, no room for error and no time for a wedding

ThePrint visited the testing facility at Delhi’s Lady Hardinge Medical College to meet scientists and technicians at the frontline of the Covid-19 battle.

Delhi teens invent robot to help medical workers & Covid-19 patients reduce contact

Called ‘Prithvi’, the prototype built by the students can deliver food and medicines to patients. Doctors say such technology is the need of the hour.

Coronavirus doubling rate in India now 4.1 days from 7.4 earlier: Health Ministry

The officials said that the patients were doubling in 7.4 days, as against 4.1 now, before the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin happened.

Muslim IAS-IPS officers’ Covid-19 appeal to community: Don’t give anyone reason to blame you

About 80 serving & retired officers have urged Muslims to practice social distancing, and cited the Quran to say courting disease through negligence is a 'sin'.

Is India’s coronavirus lockdown leading to stress in families or strengthening relationships?

The 21-day nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus has led to people working from home and thus, spending more time with their families and partners.

PM Modi has shown decisive leadership in fight against coronavirus: BJP youth leader

The nationwide lockdown has united the resolve of 1.3 billion Indians to undertake sacrifices to defeat the coronavirus.

Yediyurappa govt decides to charge the poor for food at Indira Canteens, draws flak

Minister Suresh Kumar says govt will charge Rs 5 for breakfast & Rs 10 for lunch, and that huge crowds at Indira Canteens were flouting social distancing norms.

Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi didn’t ‘break curfew to visit friends’, viral video is from December

The posts viral on various social media platforms make it seem like the Congress leaders were defying the Modi govt’s Covid-19 lockdown orders.

Katrina or Malaika — don’t judge the privileged during Covid-19 lockdown. They are like us

Grudging Katrina Kaif for posting videos of herself doing daily chores shows that we are quick to judge the privileged — people who are just like us.

On Camera

NEET is too high-risk for pen-and-paper tests. It needs a fraud-proof online process

Unless the loopholes are fixed in the NEET system, no matter how many culprits are caught and punished, new ones will continue to emerge.

Cash-strapped Karnataka hikes fuel tax by Rs 3/l, could earn Rs 2,500-3,000 cr more per yr

Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.

Stryker, predator drones, space, Pannun and Indo-Pacific dominate NSAs Doval & Sullivan’s talks

Two-day visit by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan seen as critical to both countries' focus on convergences in the relationship rather than differences.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.