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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

With his speech, Modi did what Xi and Trump couldn’t — made India greater than the pandemic

Modi’s ‘Janata curfew’ speech showed both resolution and restraint. He led from the front and asked Indians to make gratitude part of public culture.

Moving towards darkest hour of coronavirus, India can take strength from WW2’s Dunkirk moment

There are occasions when a govt's resources are not enough. With coronavirus, India is in the midst of a World War and this crisis needs our entire national capacity.

India’s COVID-19 fight needs a new social and economic behaviour. It’s easier said than done

The scale of coronavirus crisis is so great that governments need to focus entirely inwards. India is unlikely to have the resources to help its neighbours much.

Janata curfew: Brilliant nudge or Modi should’ve assured more about India’s preparedness?

Prime Minister Modi has announced a Janata curfew from 7 AM to 9 PM on 22 March, Sunday to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Faced with COVID-19, India chose to protect lives, not livelihoods. And that’s a good thing

Preventing the spread of the coronavirus before it infects more people is critical. If it doesn’t hit the working population badly, the economy will bounce back.

Chaos at Srinagar airport as families of students returning from Bangladesh lathi-charged

Families of the students alleged some students were escorted out of the airport and put under home-quarantine, while others were sent to shabby isolation facilities.

J&K starts tracing residents who met Kashmir’s 1st COVID-19 patient after Saudi return

Twenty-one medical teams formed for the exercise have collected details of neighbours who may have visited her as well as her relatives.

Punjab’s first coronavirus death is 70-year-old man with diabetes who travelled via Italy

Following the death, Punjab govt launches door-to-door campaigning, becoming the first state in India to involve its entire population in COVID-19 screening.

Delhi to Bengaluru, Indians go panic shopping as Modi address stokes ‘lockdown fear’

While Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar tweeted to clarify that the ‘information is incorrect’, the rumours stoked a buying frenzy across the nation. 

Donkey poop a COVID-19 hack? Kolkata police take down 600 social media posts for ‘rumours’

The crackdown came after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee warned against the spread of rumours about the coronavirus crisis after the state discovered its first patient.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.