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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicUnlock 2.0

Topic: unlock 2.0

Hearings by State Information Commissions fell to 44% in July from 80% in June, finds survey

Only 13 of 29 State Information Commissions (SICs) conducted hearings during Unlock 2.0 in July. The survey also found that 6 SICs were functioning without a chief information officer.

Unlock 3 is here — night curfew gone, gyms and yoga institutes to open from 5 August

Guidelines for Unlock 3, which will kick in from 1 August, say metro, cinema halls, swimming pools, theatres and bars will continue to remain shut. Schools & colleges to stay shut until 31 August.

How home-makers, masons & painters are driving Pune’s auto hub out of lockdown losses

Chakan’s automobile industry, shut during the lockdown, has now been resuscitated by returning migrant & local labour who have little experience but are learning on the job.

Karnataka villages lock themselves in amid Covid surge, impose Rs 5,000 fine for violations

Villages in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar district have imposed barricades on roads leading towards them with Covid cases surging from 0 to 78 in a month.

Unlock 2.0 guidelines out — schools to remain shut, flight & train services to be expanded

Metro services, cinema halls & gyms will continue to remain closed. Also, large congregations will stay suspended. The guidelines will be applicable from 1 July.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.