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Topic: COVID-19

Amitabh Bachchan tweets, then deletes fake information on COVID-19

Amitabh Bachchan said viruses are potent during the new moon, and making noise destroys them. The tweet was almost wholly factually incorrect.

Here’s how not following govt orders on COVID-19 can land you in jail

Several states and 80 cities are under lockdown as central and state govts issue orders to help prevent spread of coronavirus. And if you don’t obey, this is what could happen.

2 cleared, 6 to go as govt rushes clearance for India-made COVID-19 testing kits

COVID-19 has killed 7 people in India so far and infected 415. A greater testing capacity is believed to be key to check the spread of the pandemic.

‘Coronavirus isn’t going away in warmer months’ — US infectious disease expert busts myths

Dr Faheem Younus explains why coronavirus will last for months and what humans can learn from trees. 

Audio message from drones — how J&K is asking people to stay home during COVID-19 lockdown

J&K administration that announced complete lockdown Sunday deployed the drones Monday after noticing some people walking around Srinagar.

Rajasthan’s COVID-19 headache — travellers skip screening, suspected cases flee quarantine 

The state has had to grapple with travellers from affected countries heading home straight from Delhi while some in isolation have fled their wards. 

Fines, not fear, will work for Indian ‘daredevils’ using coronavirus off-time to socialise

PM Narendra Modi asked for a daylong ‘janata curfew’. But for Indians to do this for a longer period, there has to be rewards or fines.

India’s rich are passing coronavirus to the poor, but not offering monetary help

Be it Akshay Kumar or Anurag Kashyap, Ambanis or Adanis, India's wealthy have yet to open their hearts, let alone their purse, in times of coronavirus.

War on terror bind Modi and Bush. Now COVID-19 threatens to become new Hurricane Katrina

From former US president George W Bush to former Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh and ex-Odisha CM Giridhar Gamang, calamities have tested the mettle of many leaders.

IIT-Delhi researchers develop ‘cheaper’ test kits for COVID-19, undergoing clinical trial

Researchers won’t comment on the potential cost difference, but say if approved, the kit will make testing for the coronavirus widely available.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

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.