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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicCovid crisis

Topic: Covid crisis

Never signed so many death certificates, says Patiala official, calls it ’emotionally tiring’

In Punjab's Patiala, official issuing death certificates says he never thought a time would come when papers with details of the dead would pile up on his table every day.

‘Don’t know why I’m alive’ – how Indian techies are struggling with Covid trauma & grief

Indian tech companies, which support Wall Street banks and Silicon Valley giants, are trying to figure out how to address the mental-health fallout for a generation of young workers.

Covid shows if India can’t take care of SAARC, China will

China, with its deep pockets, has taken advantage of Covid, rushing in with vaccines and loans to assist countries it deems strategically significant.

SubscriberWrites: UP elections 2022: Development or Covid resentment, the coming polls could give BJP a scare

The second wave of the pandemic has altered the political grammar of Uttar Pradesh but caste arithmetic is still the deciding factor, believes Nischai Vats.

SubscriberWrites: If India’s Covid crisis occurred in Pakistan, here’s what we would have thought of Imran Khan

Place Pakistan’s PM in Modi’s shoes to assess him, consider if patent protection is evil & open letter to leaders by a worried citizen – subscribers assess India’s pandemic response.

Congress ‘toolkit’ to TMC arrests, news channels doing politicians’ jobs — playing politics

Who cares about the BJP and Congress or other parties, when thousands are dying of the virus every day, or a cyclone is ripping through the West coast?

India needs to be more India, not China. ‘Dictator envy’ won’t lead us out of crisis

In my experience as a diplomat representing India, credibility counted for more than perception in advancing India's interests.

SubscriberWrites: Why Covid is `turning point’ for voters & Modi’s `spectacular `failure’ in moment of crisis

Subscribers also complain of media scavenging on pandemic and politicians ignoring responsibilities during polls

SubscriberWrites: India’s ‘system’ has failed but illusion of leadership lingers

Sarvesh Pawshe says that in these despairing times, it is difficult to understand who really is at fault.

SubscriberWrites: Don’t blame PM for the current Covid situation – CMs are the real culprits

Ananthakrishnan S says that Maharashtra is run by a `useless’ chief minister and Kejriwal is no better.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.