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Patients discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi ,and their attendants take refuge amidst unhygienic conditions in a subway near the hospital as the nationwide lockdown left them no means of transport to go back home. (PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: Only doctors and nurses can save India now

Suddenly, Donald Trump wants Indian drugs and Indian doctors

7 April 2020 10:01 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi interacts with Union ministers on the COVID-19 crisis via video conference, in New Delhi, Monday, April 6, 2020. (PIB/PTI Photo) (PTI06-04-2020_000194A)

AA Edit: Meet PM Narendra Modi, suddenly a consensus builder

Even if it is Covid-19 that's driving him towards a bipartisan approach, some good would have come even out of...

7 April 2020 3:07 AM IST

People light candles and switch on torches as instructed by prime minister Narendra Modi at 9 pm on Sunday, April 5, 2020 to mark the countrys fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. (AP)

AA Edit: PM's mini-Diwali not just premature, but dangerously...

While Indians were lighting lamps, China registered an uptick in Covid-19 positive cases, after a period of declining...

7 April 2020 2:48 AM IST

A family plays football on the roof of their apartment during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata, on April 2, 2020. (AP)

Shashi Warrier: The power of levity in the time of lockdown

Laughter kept us sane during wars and strikes

6 April 2020 10:07 PM IST

This image posted on prime minister Narendra Modis Twitter account shows him lighting an oil lamp to mark the countrys fight against the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, April 5, 2020.(AP/Twitter)

Pavan K Varma: Why didn't the PM focus on steps to help the needy?

It is sobering to remember that many migrant workers were not at home to light a lamp

6 April 2020 3:22 PM IST

Workers arrange sacks containing essential supplies provided by the government during the current nationwide lockdown. (PTI)

Covid-19: How Kerala has shown us the way

The state's response to the challenge contains lessons for the rest of the country

6 April 2020 10:56 AM IST

New York will survive Covid-19, and herself, just yet. (Photo: Raja Karthikeya)

Notes from New York: Awake in the city that never sleeps

With out-of-work Uber drivers turning to home delivery, somedays your pizza arrives in a Mercedes Benz

6 April 2020 9:30 AM IST

One needed a vast amount of ineptitude to create the conditions in which we landed.

Veena Das: Charity can't win this war on the poor

Please redirect the massive structure of surveillance you've built to the task of providing services to the poor right...

6 April 2020 8:47 AM IST

Health workers sanitize the area near the Nizamuddin mosque after people who attended a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat where Covid-19 positive persons spread the virus to other participants. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Waqyanavis: So cops looked the other way because Tablighi Jamaat sends...

Maulana Saad reportedly went ahead with the conclave to be one up on his rivals

5 April 2020 6:40 PM IST

People thrown out of livelihoods sit down for a meal at a soup kitchen set up by the Delhi government at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Aakar Patel: What will the new economy look like post Covid-19 crash?

The impact on the global economy may last for an entire generation

5 April 2020 5:47 PM IST

Shobhaa De: Diya jalao, folks! Diwali in April!

Shobhaa De: Diya jalao, folks! Diwali in April!

Get ready to celebrate the festival in April. The coronavirus can take care of itself.

4 April 2020 9:43 PM IST

Why is India so ambivalent about its doctors at a time like this? (AFP)

AA Edit: Does India deserve its doctors?

One week we clang cymbals for them; the next week we kick and chase them away

4 April 2020 9:15 PM IST