| After a rise in positive Covid-19 cases in Delhi, authorities will step up testing, resuming random sampling at metro stations, bus stops and markets. |
THE DAILY QUIZ Even superheroes make mistakes. This film, which released in April, cost $75 million. But it's collected a dismal $39 million domestically and $84 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Which Living Vampire is bleeding Marvel dry? a. Edward Cullen
b. Morbius
c. Spiderman
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| THE BIG STORY Capital to restart random testing at public places Authorities in Delhi will step up Covid-19 testing, including by resuming random sampling at metro stations, bus stops and markets, to bolster disease surveillance at a time when there has been an uptick in positive cases. Read more. |
| A LITTLE LIGHT READING It enriches us when lives lived in the margins storm the page,says Poonam Saxena Who is interested in the stories and lives of old people? Almost no one. In our aggressively youth-oriented society, people above a certain age — old parents, grandparents — are firmly pushed to the margins. Which is why it is so gratifying to see that Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree's novel Ret Samadhi, translated as Tomb of Sand and now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, has as its central character an 80-year-old woman. Read more. |
| THE WEEKEND FIX The Great Re-Set: How the tussle over the return to work is playing out What shall we call this phase of the pandemic? We've been though The Great Retreat, those months when India locked down in 2020. We've had The Great Adjustment, as employees logged in remotely and companies pivoted to keep going. In 2021, we reassessed priorities amid The Great Resignation and charted courses anew in The Great Reshuffle. Read more. |
| THE SPORTING LIFE One for the ages: Klopp, Guardiola and a battle with no beef Last Sunday, Liverpool and Manchester City played out yet another chapter of their thrilling, frenetic rivalry in the English Premier League.
Since then, both teams have booked their places in the Champions League semis, confirmation, if any was needed, that they are not just the two best teams in England, but two of the finest in all of Europe. As this goes to print, the Reds and Blues are leading fans on another wild ride down the rabbit hole of their FA Cup encounters. Read more. |
| FROM THE EDIT PAGE The next steps in the India-US partnership Last week's 2+2 — or 3+3, with President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi first setting the direction of the talks between the foreign and defence ministers — showed that India and the United States (US) have the maturity to deal with differences and keep their broader relationship intact. Read more. |
| HT THIS DAY: April 17, 1981 -- Phoney article bagged Pulitzer prize C. R. forms ministry in Madras WASHINGTON- A 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has refused the prize and resigned her newspaper job because the article which won the award was a phoney.
Miss Janet Cooke, 26, whose long article on the hellish world of the drug addict in Washington's black ghetto was published by the Washington Post last September, wrote about a young addict named Jimmy who had begun taking Heroin when he was eight and who got his daily shot from his mother's lover. Read more. |
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