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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicCovid pandemic

Topic: Covid pandemic

Over 1 cr kids in Bihar, 30 lakh in Karnataka lack access to digital learning, govt data shows

Education ministry submits preliminary report which shows a wide digital divide among states in terms of children's access to e-learning methods. Several states yet to submit data.

76% parents don’t want to send kids to schools, 69% want them vaccinated by Sept, survey says

The survey interviewed 19,000 people across 293 districts in 23 states, including UP, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Why the end of the pandemic is looking as messy as the beginning

The end of the pandemic is almost here. But the tail is long and — thanks to short-sighted global & national policies — this phase is no more of a 'great equalizer' than the start was.

Smriti Irani hits out at ‘Gyani Baba’ Rahul Gandhi after his white paper on Covid management

Rahul Gandhi released a white paper Tuesday on Modi govt's 'disastrous' Covid management, saying purpose was not to criticise but to help country prepare for possible third wave.

J&K admin cancels Amarnath Yatra due to Covid, devotees can still attend virtual ‘aartis’

Yatra will be symbolic and virtual aartis will allow devotees to pay obeisance while avoiding travel and exposure to the infection, said J&K L-G Manoj Sinha.

As world learns to live with Covid, it may also stop counting every positive case

If hospitalisations & deaths stay low, Covid could begin to look less like an unmanageable pandemic & more like a seasonal disease like influenza. For policy-makers, that’s the goal.

Rich, wealth-flashing drug peddlers NCB is looking for. They are the ‘pandemic brats’

NCB has arrested 102 drug dealers in the past six months – 70% of them in 15-35 age group. NCB says most are inspired by the glamorous portrayal of drug lords on OTT platforms.

Govt open to more measures to boost economy, Chief Economic Adviser says

According to CEA K.V. Subramanian, demands for stimulus should also consider that the Budget this year was presented amid the pandemic and incorporated significant fiscal expansion.

Salaries cut, ‘struggling to collect fees’: Private schools are worried as Covid drags on

Private schools ThePrint spoke to said it's the teachers who are bearing the brunt of the funds crunch, with many not paid full salary for months.

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.

On Camera

Dismantling Iran proxies is a legacy issue for Netanyahu. And Iraq is his last battleground

For India, the strategic ripples are significant. The immediate concern is Pakistan’s diplomatic gain as it embeds itself deeper into the defence framework of the Middle East.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.