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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicNationwide lockdown

Topic: Nationwide lockdown

Police detains 80 migrant workers for going on a rampage in Surat

Migrant workers set many handcarts afire demanding that they be allowed to return to their native places amid the lockdown.

Nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases crosses 7,000

Union Home Ministry also sought views of state governments on the 21-day lockdown and whether more categories of people and services need to be exempted.

Not everyone can wear a mask and all hail ‘Queen Hydroxychloroquine’

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

Magic shows, PT, counselling — this Delhi shelter is taking special care of migrant workers

Nearly 300 migrant workers at Yamuna Sports Complex say shelter management has been kind to them, but a few kilometres away in the slums next to the Yamuna, it's a different story.

Christophe Jaffrelot on crisis in agriculture, follow the Korean model, says Kirit Parikh

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Kirit Parekh, N. Madhavan, Deepak Nayyar and many others.

India has done very well to fight Covid-19, but it’s not time to lift the lockdown

India's challenge is now to sustain the benefits of the lockdown and the added immunity that the population enjoys due to the microbial load.

Relief camp shut, no home to return to, Delhi’s riot victims shelter with do-gooders

With the Delhi riots in February taking away the livelihood of so many, the victims say the lockdown is another big blow for them.

Lockdown casts a cloud over Uddhav Thackeray’s election to legislature and smooth run as CM

Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister on 28 November 2019, but he is yet to be elected as a member of the House. 

App for milk, vendors at the gate — how Delhi-NCR’s hotspots managed on Day 1 of ‘sealing’

Several coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad were sealed at midnight, while others were sealed Thursday morning amid strict police vigil.

Here’s what Indians are watching during Covid-19 lockdown. Spoiler: It’s not Friends reruns

According to an industry survey, users are spending around 12% more time on online streaming platforms during the lockdown period than they did before.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?