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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicCOVID-19

Topic: COVID-19

India didn’t create Covid-19 problem, but a better system would’ve helped us cope better

Covid-19 has exposed India’s strengths, which lie at various levels, and weaknesses, such as the medicare system and fiscal constraints.

Hydroxychloroquine, Trump’s prescription for Covid-19, gets tougher to buy in India

Modi govt has moved hydroxychloroquine to a different schedule of the law to prevent hoarding. Chemists will now have to track its sale more rigorously.

‘Ungliyon ko saaf corona’ — Dettol, Lifebuoy’s hand wash challenge gets record TikTok views

Hygiene brands Dettol and Lifebuoy's handwashing campaigns on TikTok have garnered 24.3 billion and 5.3 billion views respectively.

Defence ministry grants emergency financial powers to Army commanders to fight Covid-19

Powers have been given to Army commanders, area commanders, sub-area commanders to spend on work related to setting up of quarantine facilities & other services.

In Covid-19 lockdown, many of Delhi’s poor and homeless are being forced to starve

A number of the homeless and daily wagers have flocked to Delhi's night shelters but they say supplies have been erratic there too.

Armed forces identify six more hospitals for Covid-19 tests in India, initiate four studies

The armed forces have been directed to augment medical resources for civil health set-ups too.

Sidhu Moose Wala releases song on Punjab ‘super-spreader’, gives call for social distancing

Sidhu Moose Wala’s song is based on how Punjab’s first Covid-19 patient, now deceased, went around the state despite being asked to quarantine.

Mamata Banerjee hits the streets to spread Covid-19 awareness, but forgets social distancing

Mamata tours hospitals & markets as part of her awareness drive, accompanied by a team of govt officials and police officers, and a posse of mediapersons.

India likely to join WHO’s Covid-19 treatment ‘solidarity trial’

The WHO is starting a multi-country clinical study for the potential treatment of Covid-19 as part of a rapid global search for drugs to treat Covid-19.

India ramps up Covid-19 assistance to SAARC nations, team set to leave for Nepal

India has already assisted the Maldives in the battle against the coronavirus, and says it’s ready to help others too, as and when they ask for it.

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.