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Eye on China Covid spike, 57% Indians demand mask mandate on flights, at airports

Local Circles survey based on responses from over 20,000 participants in 312 districts also found 65% want Covid testing for all international passengers in airports.

‘Someone’s trying to hide something’: Urdu press slams govt’s ‘silence’ on India-China border row

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took

China’s chicken-and-egg conundrum & the ‘political’ variant that has no cure

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately. In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep...

Nasal vaccine from today, mock drill in hospitals next week as govt ups Covid preparedness

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will visit a government hospital when this drill is taken up on 27 December, Tuesday.

Modi govt has done a perfect job battling Covid so far. Now preparedness, caution are key

India should have learnt by now that Covid won't wait for the people, governments and the industry to prepare and become 'pandemic-proof'.

PM Modi to review India’s Covid situation at high-level meeting today

In the last six months, India reported four cases of the BF.7 Omicron sub-variant, which is driving the current surge of infections in China.

Why ‘border’line social distancing won’t cut it & how motormouths are outgunning machine guns

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

3 cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, driving China’s Covid spike detected in India

The first case of BF.7 was detected in October by Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. Two cases have been reported from Gujarat & one case from Odisha, according to officials.

Rising Covid cases in China concerning but India need not panic, says SII CEO Aadar Poonawalla

The Serum Institute CEO’s tweet came a day after the Health Ministry urged states to ramp up the genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of newer Covid variants.

Long queues, high fees for cremation services in Beijing as Covid cases rise

Workers at two funeral parlours in Beijing said there has been a surge in residents looking to cremate deceased relatives.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.