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Topic: COVID-19

Mobile data users in India can’t stream HD content during lockdown, broadband not affected

Streaming platforms and other digital content providers have taken the decision in order to reduce pressure on telecom networks until 14 April.

Ration items to ‘care kits’ — Zomato, NGOs, crowdfunders come to the aid of daily wagers

While Zomato has launched a 'feed the daily wager' campaign, SAFA Society will distribute relief packages across Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.

21-day coronavirus lockdown: Should Indians be punished for violations or persuaded more?

Telangana CM KC Rao has said that if people do not follow government orders, then he will seek 'army deployment' and 'shoot-at-sight order will be issued'.

‘Inadequate protective gear, unclean clinics’ — why AAP’s mohalla doctors want to stay home

Doctors in Delhi's mohalla clinics have been anxious ever since one of their colleagues tested positive for the coronavirus Monday.

3 US Navy sailors test positive for Covid-19 aboard aircraft carrier with crew of 5,000  

The 3 sailors have been airlifted from USS Theodore Roosevelt, and those who came in contact with them have been quarantined. 

100-year-old TB vaccine now being tested for Covid-19, India may conduct a trial too

BCG vaccine could strengthen immunity against diseases other than TB, which could come as a relief to healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus threat.

Quarantined and alone due to corona, I never felt more connected with my friends and family

The Covid-19 pandemic is turning out to be a reset button, with the virtual world of Google Hangouts, Zoom and Skype connecting people forced into keeping a distance.

Three-week lockdown is PM Modi’s surgical strike against coronavirus

What is extraordinary about Modi’s lockdown is its magnitude. Never before in history has a curfew been imposed on such a large number of people.

Home ACs don’t pose coronavirus threat, but central air conditioning could raise risks

As summers approach and the coronavirus pandemic worsens, ThePrint looks at whether it’s safe to turn on home air conditioners.

Brazilian gangsters impose curfew as President Bolsonaro calls coronavirus a ‘little flu’

Threatening messages are being circulated in the slums of Rio de Janeiro by gangsters saying they will 'teach people to respect' an 8 pm shutdown.

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.