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• Corona war: India under lockdown for 3 weeksPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ramped up the fight against coronavirus by announcing that the entire country was being placed under lockdown — he called it as good as curfew — for 21 days starting midnight in order to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission and save India from a massive outbreak that could overwhelm the healthcare system.
• The heroes who deliver your newspaperIn the quiet of early morning, they slip the world through our door. Seasons don’t matter. Chilly winters, sweaty summers, unfriendly rains – they do their job unfailingly with the sacredness of a ritual. Without the newspapers they deliver, the morning tea doesn’t taste the same. You feel an absence hard to explain. And yet, newspaper vendors hardly occupy a speck of space in our minds.
• India under lockdown: What will remain open
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• PM Modi: Print media's role key in corona war
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• Return of 64,000 from abroad forced lockdownPrime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an interaction on coronavirus with the people of his constituency Varanasi on Wednesday through a videoconference at 5 pm.
• A Goa brewery that's churning out sanitisersIn corona affected countries, in order to meet the shortfall of hand sanitisers, brewery firms have chipped in. We look at One Brewery in Goa
• Covid-19: 21-day lockdown begins in IndiaPM Narendra Modi announced a complete lockdown across the country for 21 days from Tuesday midnight, asserting that this is necessary for a decisive battle against the coronavirus outbreak. In his second address to the nation on the pandemic raging across much of the world, Modi said the decision will have an economic cost but save people's lives.​​
• Gunmen attack Sikh gathering in Kabul; 4 deadGunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of worship in the heart of the Afghan capital's old city on Wednesday, killing at least four people. Sikhs have suffered widespread discrimination in the conservative Muslim country and have also been targeted by Islamic extremists.
• Violating lockdown to invite a year's jailAnyone found guilty of misappropriation of funds meant for relief operation would also be liable for punishment for prison term of up to two years.
• Coronavirus: Shocking pictures of deserted spaces
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• 9 ‘tech mistakes’ to avoid while working from home
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• Facebook in talks for 10% in Jio: ReportSocial media giant Facebook is in talks to buy a 10% stake in Reliance Jio, billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s telecom and internet services venture. The US-based technology giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, was close to signing a preliminary deal but the negotiations got delayed due global travel bans due to Covid-19.
• Lockdown violators could be shot at sight: KCRna CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday said he will have no option but to give shoot-at-sight orders if people don't stay indoors during the lockdown period.
• People scramble for essentials after PM speech
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• Coronavirus: 48 patients recover across India​​​The total number of Covid-19 cases reported from the states so far is 562. Apart from the lower number of fresh cases, there was also some cheer on the recoveries front. As many as 48 coronavirus patients have so far been discharged from hospital after treatment. The rush of new infections slowed a bit to 64 on Tuesday, from 99 the previous day.
• Tokyo begins Olympic task of reorganising GamesIn a move symbolic of the difficulties now facing Tokyo, Olympic countdown clocks in the city switched from displaying the number of days to go, instead simply showing today's date and the time. It is not even clear exactly when the rescheduled Games will take place, with the International Olympic Committee saying the new date would be "beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021".
• I'll pray for those engaged in combating corona: PMPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday greeted people on festivals, most of which mark the beginning of the new year, and said on this Navratra, he will pray for those engaged in combating coronavirus.
• 5,146 held in Delhi for defying lockdown
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• Chemists asked to check buying of key malaria drugWhile manufacturers maintain there are adequate stocks of the drug as of now, India exports almost 80% of its production to countries like Africa as the drug is almost redundant for use in India.