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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicNationwide lockdown

Topic: Nationwide lockdown

Maoists blame US for Covid-19, police say they are frustrated as supply network is hit

In its open letter, CPI(Maoist) also calls PM Modi ‘puppet’ of US President Donald Trump and says lockdown has upended lives of 10 cr migrants and daily wagers.

Is Centre interfering in Covid fight or do states like West Bengal, Kerala need hand-holding?

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has called the Narendra Modi gov’s decision to send teams to assess Covid-19 situation in four states as a "unilateral" and "undesirable" action.

India’s Covid-19 R0 down to 1.36 now, 25,000 cases by April-end at this rate: IMS scientist

Sitabhra Sinha, a scientist at IMS, says without the reduced R0, indicating number of people a Covid-19 patient can infect, active cases would have hit 1 lakh by 27 April.

Sanjaya Baru says lockdown will shape Centre-state ties, Raja Mohan on global tilt to Left

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Abhishek Singhvi, Mahesh Vyas, Jayati Ghosh and many others.

3 meals, Ramayan on TV, and a long wait to go home: Life inside a Delhi quarantine centre

Migrant labourers and patients from AIIMS and Safdarjung hospital are waiting out the lockdown at this quarantine centre where 3 meals and a roof is welcome, but painfully so.

Coronavirus lockdown has given us a blank slate. We can write a new world when it lifts

From traffic to waste, hygiene to charity, everyone knew the problems. The pandemic has relaxed some of the constraints that previously made reform impossible.

States free to declare early summer break for schools if they wish to, says HRD minister 

Schools across India have launched the new academic session through online classes, but some have sought an advanced summer break to minimise lockdown impact.

Kerala rolls back lockdown relaxations after Centre raises objections

The Centre wrote a letter to Kerala govt criticising its decision of relaxation, saying it amounts to dilution of lockdown guidelines and also a Supreme Court observation.

Over 1.5 lakh flamingoes put up spectacular show in locked-down Mumbai

Bombay Natural History Society estimates 25% increase in migration of flamingoes to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s wetlands.

Indian wet markets and where the coronavirus truth lies buried

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

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

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.