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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicLockdown

Topic: lockdown

Indian stocks post best day since 2009 on signs Covid-19 is waning in some global hotspots

Sensex rose 9%, the most since May 2009, while the Nifty 50 advanced by a similar amount although infection curve has yet to flatten in India.

Hundreds stuck at sealed India-Nepal border. Govts must manage flow better in Covid-19 times

Migrant workers from Nepal are facing lack of food and shelter after India announced a 21-day lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus.

Covid-19 brings back wartime powers. But Korea and Japan show why they are not needed

Barring East Asian nations, countries across the world have invoked urgent legal-constitutional provisions, including wartime powers & state of emergency.

People of Kerala’s Kasargod using water route to reach Karnataka for medical needs

Roads between the states are blocked at the insistence of Karnataka’s Yediyurappa govt. Police has stepped up its vigil along the sea coast & Talapady river.

Louisiana pastor, arrested once for defying stay-home orders, continues with church service

In an interview to CNN’s Victor Blackwell, the pastor said that the depression & anxiety of living under lockdown is worse than dying of Covid-19.

Urjit Patel says keep finances healthy, Raghuram Rajan on restarting economy post lockdown 

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Raghuram Rajan, Urjit Patel, Kaushik Basu, Ashima Goyal and many others.

Mumbai man cycling to J&K home gets a lift in truck, CRPF airlifts ailing father to hospital

On hearing his father's ailment, Mohd Arif planned to cycle more than 2,100 km to reach home in Rajouri district of J&K from Mumbai. CRPF intercepted him in Gujarat.

No paid leaves, lack of access to healthcare — world’s workers hit by coronavirus pandemic

A survey conducted by the International Trade Union Congress in 86 countries shows that only 21% of them are providing paid sick leave to the workers.

India has 2 of Asia’s 50 best restaurants, but it’ll be a while before you can dine there

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list is selected & voted on by a panel of 300 food writers, critics, chefs, restaurateurs & foodies—half of them women—across Asia.

Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi didn’t ‘break curfew to visit friends’, viral video is from December

The posts viral on various social media platforms make it seem like the Congress leaders were defying the Modi govt’s Covid-19 lockdown orders.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.