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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicNationwide lockdown

Topic: Nationwide lockdown

Railways to offer full refund for trains cancelled due to extension of lockdown

Customers will also get full refunds of their tickets if they are cancelling their advance bookings for trains not yet cancelled.

C Raja Mohan says China is new Russia, Mahesh Vyas surprised by steep unemployment rates

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Narayan Ramachandran, Mahesh Vyas, C. Gopinath and many more.

Waiting for food, dodging cops — ragpickers in Lucknow slum live on crumbs, no water

Migrant labourers and ragpickers at Dalibagh, Lucknow’s biggest slum, rely on food from strangers while evading police implementing the lockdown.

‘Raj Bhavan ignored’: Governor Dhankhar says CM Mamata didn’t brief him even once on lockdown

Governor Dhankhar says CM Mamata Banerjee hasn’t given him any updates on how Bengal is dealing with Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.

Govt sets up 20 control rooms to address migrant workers’ issues due to Covid-19 lockdown

These control rooms have been set up to address wage-related grievances and mitigate problems of migrant workers through coordination with various state governments.

Congress terms PM Modi’s Covid-19 address hollow, says no mention of financial package

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the PM's address was like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. No financial package, no details, no concrete item, he added.

10k cases in 6 days notes HT, ‘Economy in doghouse’ says Telegraph, ‘Hell Hospital’ in Mirror

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

People celebrating festivals at home amid lockdown is motivational, praiseworthy: PM Modi

With Baisakhi, Pohela Boishakh, Puthandu, Bohag Bihu, the new year has started in different states, said the PM in his national address Tuesday.

Lockdown extended across India until 3 May, PM Modi says adequate stock of food, medicines

Modi says extensive guidelines will be issued tomorrow. After April 20, govt could allow limited agricultural and economic activities at places with no hotspots.

‘It was the least we could do’: When Muslims shouldered a Hindu neighbour’s bier in Jaipur

Rajendra Bagari’s relatives couldn’t come to carry his bier in Jaipur due to the lockdown. So his Muslim neighbours stepped in.

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.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘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.