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Topic: COVID-19

13 flights landed across India’s 5 busiest airports hours after the flying ban

From midnight of 24 March, when a flying ban was put in place, to noon of 25 March, New Delhi airport was the busiest handling 8 planes while Mumbai saw no landings in that period.

Online classrooms during Covid-19 mean students should demand fee discounts

Classroom spaces are conducive to interaction, force students to engage and promote peer learning but all that has stopped due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Jayant Sinha: Coronavirus will change the world like 9/11 and 2008

The coronavirus Pandemic Period suggests we need to provide national healthcare freely to all. Your health is suddenly my problem.

‘Corona’ is not just a virus. Indians are using it as a slur against people from northeast

Several people from northeast India are facing racial attacks. A woman from Manipur was spat on and called 'corona' by a man in Delhi.

Uddhav Thackeray is winning over even his critics with calm demeanour and strong decisions

Dismissed as a ‘puppet in the hands of Sharad Pawar’, Uddhav Thackeray is now earning praise from critics as the ‘best head’ to run Maharashtra in these times.

Looking for ways to kill lockdown drudgery? Take tips from Bhagwat, Tejasvi Surya, Rijiju

With a 21-day lockdown in place, various public figures have pitched in with suggestions to pass time, from reading books, doing yoga to upgrading educational skills online.

India begins work on 100-day emergency plan to fight Covid-19

The plan will forecast emergency requirements that may arise in the next three months, depending on how much the coronavirus outbreak intensified.

Why India has opted for a China-style lockdown and not like the one in Italy

China implemented harshest form of lockdown in Wuhan after 30 deaths, while Italy effected gradual, less stringent nationwide lockdown that began after 800 deaths.

Four more test positive for coronavirus in J&K, total cases rise to 11

About 5,124 travellers and people who came in contact with suspected and positive cases have been put under surveillance, said a govt bulletin Wednesday.

More financial services, manufacturing units exempted from coronavirus lockdown

Govt has decided to expand the list of ‘essential services’ to ensure manufacturing of goods like medicines and food material, and their smooth delivery.

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘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.