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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicNationwide lockdown

Topic: Nationwide lockdown

IAS officers, Nobel winners, filmmaker — states gather their best to battle Covid crisis

From Tamil Nadu to Maharashtra and West Bengal, multiple states have engaged high-profile experts to find a way out of the lockdown, revive their battered economy.

Lockdown extended until 31 May but shops and salons to open, inter-state movement can resume

Centre allows states to decide on red/orange/green zones. Air travel and metro services to remain suspended, sports can resume without spectators.

Only special, parcel and freight railway services to run during lockdown 4.0

The national transporter said the guidelines issued during Lockdown 3.0 will continue to be in force as far as rail operations are concerned.

Detailed plan to ease restrictions in Delhi will be announced on Monday: Arvind Kejriwal

In a series of tweets, Kejriwal said that his govt had utilised the lockdown period to prepare the city's healthcare system in case of spike in Covid-19 cases.

Fruits and aloo-puri from Delhi Police — how beggars survived the Covid lockdown 

The lockdown was a dark time for Delhi’s beggars. They are glad the restrictions are now being eased. 

Modi faces no political costs for suffering he causes. He’s just like Iran’s Ali Khamenei

It astounds many that Modi didn’t even acknowledge the migrant crisis or the loss of jobs in his Atmanirbhar Bharat speech. And yet there is no anger with him.

Azim Premji defends workers’ rights as many states dilute labour laws

Writing in the Economic Times, the founder of software services provider Wipro said that dilution of such laws would only exacerbate the conditions of low wage workers.

What it means for Covid to never go away and become endemic — like HIV, malaria, measles

The WHO has warned that the SARS-CoV-2 virus will not disappear and Covid-19 might become endemic, regularly occurring in humans.

Ministers’ panel wants to use MGNREGA funds for labour wages in private factories

Led by Union Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot, the panel recommends expanding MGNREGA's ambit to include work in private enterprises such as factories, construction sites.

Relationship between health, foreign policy and trade is at the cutting edge of health diplomacy: Shringla

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said health diplomacy is a subset of the machinery of multilateral diplomacy. Read the full text of his speech here.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.