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# SOCIAL ISSUES On table: Cash transfers for unorganized workers, 7 kg subsidized grain per person Pg – 01 Money transfer, food aid: Sates announce schemes for daily wagers, vendors Pg – 01 States get going: Dedicated hospitals, new isolation wards, more doctors Pg – 07 87 new cases, telemedicine guidelines issued by …
# INTERNATIONAL ISSUES Amid lockdown, foreign embassies worry about stranded tourists Pg – 13 U.S. could become virus epicentre: WHO Pg – 15 ‘Loss of smell in some cases’ Pg – 15 # POLITY AND GOVERNANCE PM announces 21-day lockdown as COVID-19 touches 10 Pg – 01 Made in India testing kit Pg – 01 …
# EXPLAINED Quarantine works better than airport screening: study Pg – 10 Tracking food supply chain Pg – 10 ‘Virus will stay, difficult to lock down for long’ Pg – 10 # POLITY AND GOVERNANCE PM: Newspapers have tremendous credibility, must spread awareness Pg – 06 # INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS First time …
# POLITY AND GOVERNANCE As virus toll rises to nine, States put in place tougher measures Pg – 01 Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill without debate Pg – 12 Centre amends law to enable excise duty increase on fuel Pg – 15 # ENVIRONEMENT AAP govt. to deploy environment marshals, build smog tower in CP …
# ECONOMY Unorganised sector has been hit hard need direct payments, India Inc tells PM Pg – 01 Relax NPA norms, increase liquidity and cut rates, tells Aditya Puri Pg – 15 # POLITY AND GOVERNANCE No Community spread yet, all actions to stop it: Niti Panel head Pg – 01 # INTERNATIONAL ISSUES Video …
# SOCIAL ISSUES IIT-D team develops cheaper COVID-19 test Pg – 01 # INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Seizure of Afghan meth on high seas triggers concern Pg – 10 Lessons from Italy for COVID-19-wracked world Pg – 12 Can China’s model work for the west? Pg – 12 # EDITORIALS OF THE DAY China’s Zero (International Relations) …
# EXPLAINED Stage by stage in a pandemic (S&T) Pg – 12 Can Vitamin C prevent or cure novel coronavirus infection? (S&T) Pg – 12 From loans to salary cover to health care, how govts are helping citizens (Polity & Governance) Pg – 12 How long can virus ‘live’ in air, and on steel? (S&T) …
# INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS India, France conduct joint patrols from Reunion Island Pg – 10 # ECONOMY Maharashtra to get paid by Centre for cotton MSP Pg – 10 Cabinet okays Rs. 48,000¬cr. plan for electronics manufacturing Pg – 13 CII bats for Rs. 2 lakh¬ crore stimulus Pg – 13 Virus hits NRI foreign currency …
# INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Nepal to contribute to COVID-19 fund Pg – 13 Hypersonic Missile test successful: Pentagon Pg – 14 # ECONOMY Over half of India Inc. catches a cold Pg – 15 # POLITY & GOVERNANCE LS passes Bill on national importance tag for IIITs Pg – 12 Defence Procurement draft released Pg – …
# SOCIAL ISSUES Testing extended to all pneumonia cases: Govt Pg – 01 Govt speeds up approval for COVID-19 testing kits, drugs Pg – 09 # ECONOMY Forex Reserves decline for the first time in 25 weeks Pg – 19 # EXPLAINED How far are we from COVID-19 drugs, vaccine? (Social Issues) Pg – 14 …