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How a breakthrough Covid-19 antigen test could help countries ease out of lockdown faster

In episode 467 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains what antigen tests are and how FDA's breakthrough test can aid economies as lockdowns ease across the world.

Sunday edition of Boston Globe falls short of pages for death notices

Death notices in the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe (26 April) ran up to 21 pages, that is 16 more than the previous week's edition.

One in five New York City residents tests positive for coronavirus antibody, shows survey

A survey of over 3,000 people in New York State show that 13.9 per cent had antibodies against Covid-19, meaning they were exposed to the virus without knowing.

Rich Americans escaped to bunkers in New Zealand as coronavirus struck

For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in doomsday survival plans of rich Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyse the world.

New Covid-19 cases in New York fall to lowest since epidemic began

New York deaths remain high but Governor Cuomo talks of reopening the city as only 53 new Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital overnight.

Trump’s dance of ‘death’, testing times for the British Queen and Easter at home

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

New York, New Jersey urge people to stay put as deaths rise and peak of infection nears

New Jersey, which trails New York with the second-highest number of infections in the US, expects cases to peak in two to three days.

Indian Uber driver sentenced to a year in prison for transporting illegal aliens in US

Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Philadelphia, previously sought and received asylum in the US and now faces possible deportation as a result of this offence.

Modi on terror, Imran on Kashmir, Greta on climate – New York saw all the action this week

New York also witnessed Imran Khan publicly admitting that Pakistan Army and ISI trained al-Qaida to fight in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviets.

‘Free Kashmir’ lights up Times Square ahead of Modi, Imran UN address in New York

Pakistan PM Imran Khan has been raising the Kashmir issue on the margins of the UNGA, targeting India for ‘keeping nearly 8 million people under lockdown’.

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.