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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicCovid lockdown

Topic: Covid lockdown

3 BJP MLAs taken into custody for violating lockdown norms in Siliguri, released later

Shankar Ghosh, Anandamoy Burman and Sikha Chattopadhyay were protesting against the alleged lack of measures on part of state govt to check rising Covid deaths in north Bengal.

UK cites variant of Indian origin as reason for decreasing gap between vaccine doses

The interval between the doses have been reduced from 12 weeks to 8 weeks. In contrast, India has increased the gap between Covishield doses to 12-16 weeks.

IFS body asks states to identify their staff as frontline workers, seeks early vaccination

Indian Forest Service Association in a letter to states has said that many of their staff have lost their lives to Covid in the line of duty.

Chicken or egg? Doesn’t matter, neither is really selling well since Covid hit India

Broiler chicken prices have plunged for third time in the past year. And weekend-focused lockdowns have made things worse, stakeholders say.

Maharashtra brings on theatre artists to convince people to follow Covid norms as cases plateau

Local artists will put on folk performances & plays to underline importance of masking, social distancing, vaccinating apart from urging people to limit social & religious gatherings.

Kerala to impose 9-day lockdown from 8 May amid steep rise in Covid cases

Strict lockdown-like restrictions are already in place in Kerala. The decision of complete lockdown came after the state recorded highest single-day spurt of 41,953 cases Wednesday.

India should brace for a third Covid wave, it is inevitable, scientific advisor to Modi govt warns

Professor K. VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor to the Modi government also said that vaccines work against all variants of the virus.

Only way to stop Covid spread now is full lockdown, says Rahul Gandhi

In a tweet, the Congress leader said Modi govt's 'inaction' to counter Covid is killing many innocent people and pushed to implement the party’s proposed NYAY scheme.

Anthony Fauci suggests an immediate few weeks’ lockdown in India to contain Covid spread

The chief medical adviser to the White House also said that another important thing to do is the prompt supplies of oxygen, medication, PPEs.

How Bhilwara is using lessons learnt from its 2020 ‘model’ to fight this Covid wave

Bhilwara administration has returned to its mode of 'ruthless containment' and curfews, even banning essential workers from stepping out, to bring the crisis under control.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.