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$An ambulance passes the closed-down Prince of Wales pub where a sign outside reads \Thanks to the NHS and all our key workers\, in Fleet, south west of London, on March 30, 2020, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Life in locked-down Britain may not return to normal for six months or longer as it battles the coronavirus outbreak, a top health official warned on Sunday, as the death toll reached passed 1,200. (AFP)$ Opinion

Atlas shrugged: All it takes is a zombie virus to stop our world

Just the other day we were watching the lockdown in Wuhan and were appalled that people could be quarantined in their...

31 March 2020 2:42 PM IST

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

Covid-19 is this century's global inflection point

In the post-Covid-19 world the institutions of global governance would have to be revisited and remodelled

31 March 2020 11:56 AM IST

Government doctors sit inside a bus to go to the districts to serve as reinforcements during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata on March 27, 2020. (AFP)

DC Edit: Protect the doctors

Every medical professional is precious for India

31 March 2020 8:07 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation on the coronavirus pandemic on March 24, 2020. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit: PM promotes himself, but opposition rises to the occasion

The outcomes of ad hoc decisions could have been anticipated

31 March 2020 6:43 AM IST

A policeman pulls the remains of an anti new citizenship law banner as local authorities clear the protest site of Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on March 24, 2020. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi: Shaheen Bagh stir recast in tune with the Covid times

Guided by common sense, the women of Shaheen Bagh have been extraordinarily focused on the Constitution

29 March 2020 6:29 PM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: Babu in demand

Ashwin Lohani has been tasked to harness the tourism potential of Andhra Pradesh

29 March 2020 6:07 PM IST

Look what I found.

Exposure Day

What it used to be like in the pre-quarantine days

29 March 2020 5:46 PM IST

I will get my hands in the soil and nose in flour, my fingers inky with new writing and missives to the elderly and my eyes set firmly on the beautiful four who are my world.

A lockdown love letter to my beautiful planet

This time when I self-isolate, it will be for a better tomorrow.

29 March 2020 4:06 PM IST

Migrant workers line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi to leave for their villages in the wake of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown announced by prime minister Narendra Modi. On March 28, tens of thousands of migrant workers fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by Uttar Pradesh to go to their home towns. (AFP)

Why PM Modi should make a call to Naveen Patnaik

The Odisha CM would have some valuable insights on how to plan for a disaster

29 March 2020 8:35 AM IST

An Indian migrant workers family is silhouetted as they make the journey to their village by foot, following a coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India on March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of New Delhi to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the worlds largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP)

Testing key to lockdown's success, as fear of starvation looms

What will happen when the state apparatus needs to act beyond its capacity to cater to lakhs and crores of infected?

29 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

The obvious way forward in the toilet paper crisis is to require every TV station to make demonstrative ads showing people how to use their left hands.

Of Cabbages and Kings: Toilet manners, etiquette and business ideas in...

Much is being made of the toilet paper crisis but there could be profit in this plague

28 March 2020 7:25 PM IST

Firefighters spray disinfectant to contain the new coronavirus Covid-19 on a street in Guwahati on March 25, 2020. (AP)

All-round approach vital to fight Covid-19

By acting in unison, we can cut the chain of transmission and take the sting out of the disease

26 March 2020 10:35 PM IST