Covid-19

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British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Amid dog-whistle politics, did Sunak go easy on Suella?

Cruella, in an attempt to drown the noisy negative publicity, has resorted to dog-whistle politics

27 May 2023 12:24 AM

Wearing masks is one of the primary options. It must be made compulsory not just in government officers and hospitals but in all crowded places. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Masks advisable as Covid could disrupt lives again

The Union government must revisit the Covid protocols and prod state governments to decide what is to be introduced now

05 Apr 2023 12:15 AM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid economic lull

The 2023-24 Union Budget of Ms Sitharaman can at best be described as a Budget of idle curiosities, lacking any sense of urgency

03 Feb 2023 12:00 AM

Recent changes to education policy have also influenced the organisation of pre-school education in India. (DC Image)

Suman Bhattacharjea | Big changes in early years; funding education is key

The impetus for integrating pre-school and school education took another giant step forward with the release of the NEP in 2020

19 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or ‘permacrisis’: What’s the 2023 mantra?

“Permacrisis” was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

01 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

In this file photo rescue workers clear rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. (Photo: AP/PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a difficult year

A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to be dead or dying

31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

The frightening experience of air travellers in the last week or so, especially those flying out of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport’s Terminal 3, would suggest that the airport system of passenger, hand baggage and security check handling leaves far too much to be desired. (Photo: Twitter)

AA Edit | Airport chaos: A mess of India’s own making

The ministry’s lazy solution seemed to be to tell the airlines to reduce the number of early morning flights

15 Dec 2022 12:10 AM

Sadly, over the years, celebrating Diwali with fervour has become more about an extravagant display of wealth. (Photo: ANI)

Shailaja Khanna | The many moods & myths of Diwali

Whatever be the reason of, the way to celebrate it is to reunite with one’s dear ones and make it an excuse of visiting friends, family

30 Oct 2022 12:10 AM

India had seen, once again, Chinese perfidy in its eastern Ladakh region in April 2020 onwards where serious Chinese transgressions had been engineered across the LAC in Depsang Plains, Hot Springs, Gogra, Pangong Tso and Demchok areas. (Representational Image/AFP)

Kamal Davar | Time to be firm tackling Dragon on LAC standoff & human rights

Both nations, according to these reports, now have between 50,000 to 60,000 troops deployed along the LAC in Ladakh

12 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

In March 2020, the year before Covid-19, merchandise exports were $314 billion. Meaning there was no growth in merchandise exports in six years. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | The rise & fall of India’s exports: Can we take it up to $1tr by 2030?

Unless India does something proactively that affects our exports positively, trade growth will decline as it has with the world trend

11 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

AA Edit | Time to clean up pharma

The $40 billion Indian pharmaceuticals industry is the world’s third largest by volume and 14th largest in terms of value

08 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

Every year, an estimated 26 lakh people (one in every four deaths that happens in the country) die due to cardio-vascular diseases. (Representational Image)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Some heart attacks can be prevented with a few steps

As we grow old, with every passing year in life, the accumulation of fat in the arteries of the heart reduces the blood circulation to heart

29 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

File photo of lockdown being imposed in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Hindsight disfavours lockdowns

Science may have delayed reopening to 2022 when it could have been done a year earlier without causing such economic and social disruption

27 Aug 2022 12:05 AM

A fresh impetus for the vaccination programme is made imperative by the statistics on the pandemic, too. India on Thursday recorded more than 20,138 new Covid cases — the number touched this high after a gap of four months. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | A good move, as Covid cases up

The government must seriously reconsider introducing nationwide precautionary steps, including making masks mandatory, before it is too late

14 Jul 2022 11:12 PM

A health worker conducts a swab test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a residential compound in Shanghai on March 18, 2022. (Photo : AFP)

AA Edit | Covid: Time is not right to lower guard

As per the WHO, new infections are up 8% globally compared to the previous week, with 11 million new cases and over 43,000 new deaths

18 Mar 2022 11:42 PM

A girl wearing a mask walks near India Gate in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Over 1.9 million kids in India lost parent or caregiver to COVID-19: Lancet study

The new study suggests that globally, two out of three children orphaned from are adolescents aged 10 to 17 years

25 Feb 2022 12:48 PM

Sharon Lowen | Friendship in the time of Covid

From the time of our first lockdown, I felt no urge for long phone conversations with friends who were coping in familiar ways

06 Feb 2022 3:01 AM

Most people will be asked to first use rapid test kits available at public health offices, testing stations and pharmacies and receive PCR when those tests are positive. (AP Photo)

S Korea tests new virus steps as infections reach new high

Officials also planning to treat most mild cases at home and reshape a testing regime that had been centered around PCR tests

26 Jan 2022 11:48 AM

Dulqueer Salmaan tests positive for coronavirus

The 35-year-old actor's diagnosis comes days after his superstar father Mammooty also tested positive for COVID-19

21 Jan 2022 1:49 AM

The surge is so sharp now, as the continent’s share in global numbers going from eight per cent to 18 per cent in the last four weeks. (Representational Image/ PTI)

AA Edit | As 3rd wave picks pace, ensure citizens jabbed

India reported more than three lakh new cases on Thursday, the first time in the third wave, and close to 500 deaths

21 Jan 2022 12:17 AM

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