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In his address to the nation on April 20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged states to think of lockdowns as a means of last resort. Within a week, though, faced with a runaway spiral in Covid cases, Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat and Karnataka were for

There’s hardly a year left for the next assembly election, and Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh can ill afford to be seen stranded alone in a political crisis. On April 10, the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the SIT (special investi

The buzz that Maharashtra might offer free vaccines to everyone in the state had set off a race among the partners of the ruling MVA (Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi) alliance to claim credit for the initiative. First, minorities affairs minister Nawab Mali

ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL 23, Subhash Varma, a 53-year-old healthcare professional, and his wife Anuja returned exhausted to their flat in Dwarka, a suburb in southwestern Delhi. They had spent a harrowing day trying to get Anuja’s severely ill sister Ta

It was fourth time lucky for Lalu Prasad Yadav. The former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief had been in jail since December 2017 after being convicted in various fodder scam cases. He had been refused bail three times earlier

*All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers’ Association, the apex body of manufactures of industrial gases in India, which caters to 95 per cent of the country’s medical oxygen requirement #Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation, sole licensing

Giridhari Lal Thakrey, 50, a school teacher in village Katang Tola, 50-odd km from the district headquarters of Balaghat in eastern Madhya Pradesh, complained of fever, cough and cold on April 12. He was taken to the government health centre in Waras

THE CONCERN IN PRAKASH PADIKKAL’S VOICE is quite palpable. Padikkal, 65, owns Havistha Steel, a company in Navi Mumbai that makes equipment and storage tanks for the chemicals, food and pharmaceutical sectors. Classified as an essential business, Pad

Mainland India should have been the last place where South Korean entertainment would find fans. Ours is a country with its own thriving television and film industries. Culturally, we have been fascinated by the West, rather than our Asian neighbours

A REVIVAL PLAN Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has surprised many by bringing in changes in the state’s liquor policy Marking a major departure from its conservative liquor policy, the Rajasthan government, on April 1, issued a notification allowing bars

DESPERATE EFFORTS ARE ON in Rajasthan to arrest the sharp decline in population of its state animal, the camel. Last month, a cabinet sub-committee made recommendations to end what Arushi Malik, special secretary, animal husbandry, called a “sort of

Some of the most stimulating moments in film history have occurred at a point where documentary and constructed narrative intersect or blur into each other. Nearly a 100 years ago, Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North—about the Inuit people of the C

Air flows into the bronchi and, from there, into its branches—the bronchioles Bronchioles move air into tiny air sacs, or alveoli, where oxygen is separated from air and moved into tiny blood cells (capillaries) that exchange oxygen and waste betwee

Beginning May 1, the Great Indian Vaccine Roll-out will now cover millions of people in the 18-44 age bracket across the country in the inoculation drive against Covid-19. Except that the numbers are humongous and will be a lot more challenging than

Jhumpa Lahiri, in the introduction to Ties, her award-winning translation of Domenico Starnone’s ironic, wry yet emotionally fraught novel Lacci, notes a particular passage that “stopped me in my tracks”. A passage that “lays bare the flawed human im

As a second wave of the coronavirus devastates the country, the surge in the number of deaths has been mind-numbing. As of April 28, the national death toll stood at 201,187. Overwhelmed crematoriums have had to hastily rig up makeshift pyres to keep