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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicSocial distancing

Topic: Social distancing

Mumbai’s Lalbaugcha Raja won’t be part of Ganpati festival this year due to Covid

The organisers of the Lalbaug mandal will run a blood and plasma donation drive instead, and honour Covid warriors and soldiers who lost their lives in Galwan.

Eyebrow threading device, kaadha instead of tea: Mumbai’s beauty salons reopen with tweaks

At some salons, customers can only get their nails painted if they buy the whole bottle of colour. At others, both clients and staff wear PPE kits.

Trump wants an ‘F’ on Covid testing and UK’s ‘cash for favour’ scandal

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

1m, 1.5m, 2m — the different levels of social distancing countries are following amid Covid

WHO recommended 1m of physical distance, which has been followed by China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong & Singapore. India has been maintaining 2 metres' distance.

Covid is making brands opt for skyrise marketing to reach the ‘low-lying’ consumer

‘Skyrise markets’ today represent a huge opportunity for brands, large retailers and e-commerce platforms due to natural grouping of similar customer profiles.

How to make safe decisions when you can’t plan much in the age of Covid

As data gives us an idea on how the virus spreads, it can help us divide activities into relative risk categories, making it easier to take a decision.

Govt has agreed to proposal to allow voters above 65 years to use postal ballot: CEC 

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, however, said the facility of voting through postal ballot will not be extended to those Covid patients having comorbidities.

What pandemic? For some Indians, Unlock 1.0 means Covid crisis is over

As Covid-19 cases continue to rise, some in India are less worried than two months ago. The masks have come off.

EC readies for Bihar elections, could double up polling booths and expand remote voting

EC official says the election will happen according to schedule as of now and it will take place with all social distancing measures in place.

Can Starbucks be Starbucks with social distancing? We’ll adapt, says CEO

Starbucks plans to rollout its “pickup” store concept, smaller-format stores without the usual tables and chairs that made the chain a popular place to sit, work and socialise.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘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.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.