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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicNationwide lockdown

Topic: Nationwide lockdown

Why online classes may not be such a good idea after all, especially for kids

Online lessons have emerged as the go-to solution for schools looking to resume classes despite lockdown. But experts are worried.

From virtual benches to entry curbs — how SC and Delhi HC will work after lockdown

The SC is planning to draw circles in front of case filling counters, while Delhi HC wants its judges, staff to maintain social distancing on premises even after lockdown.

‘Dhoop aane do’, don’t lose hope & feed the strays: Gulzar’s lockdown message in poetry, prose

Stay hopeful, and practise social distancing, says Gulzar in his new poem. Read the translation of the poem by Rakhshanda Jalil.

Get us back to India: Jaipur couples stranded in ‘expensive’ New Zealand write to PM Modi

In a letter to the PMO and MEA, the Jaipur residents claim there are 1,000 others who came to New Zealand for a visit but are now stranded there.

Covid-19: Govinda Rao says states need resources, Palshikar skeptical about lockdown success

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Shashank Joshi, Jyoti Mukul, Frank F. Islam and many others.

Modi govt ‘weighs proposal’ to allow IRS, IAS officers to work from home even after lockdown

CARUNA, a platform created by civil servants to assist the Covid-19 efforts, has suggested making work from a home a formal provision for govt employees. 

Lockdown’s a relief for this Rajasthan village — it has kept Gujarat’s booze tourists away

Residents of Ratanpur say the lockdown has brought welcome relief from the ‘loutish’ behaviour of liquor seekers from Gujarat who frequent the border bars. 

Gastroenterologist son of Communist leader is Mamata’s go-to man to fight Covid in Bengal

Abhijeet Choudhury heads Bengal's experts committee of doctors formed to combat Covid-19 and is convenor of the govt’s global advisory board led by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee.

Most Muslims in Punjab’s Malerkotla have Tablighi link. But that’s not their big Covid worry

A number of migrant daily wage earners and locals say state’s ration measures haven’t reached them. Some even said food provided is ‘inedible’.

CII wants Modi govt to add more sectors to exempted list, remove criminal charge threat

The CII has submitted a series of suggestions to the government seeking changes to its guidelines that allowed certain industries to begin operations on 20 April.

On Camera

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

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.