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A door-to-door survey at Ambujwadi slum of Malvani at Malad in Mumbai on July 9.

Sero survey points to possibility of herd immunity in Mumbai slums

The findings of a recent serological survey in Mumbai show that the city may have unwittingly reached a level of herd immunity. It shows 57 per cent o

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Police personnel trying to get people to disperse as devotees violate the government’s ban on religious gatherings to participate in rituals on the first day of the Dashama Vrat near the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad on July 20.

Gujarat: Unlockdown impact

Gujarat is again showing a surge after businesses and factories start operating as part of the unlocking process and people move across districts.

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Karnataka Police bringing Varavara Rao to Pavagada in Tumakuru district in connection with a 2005 naxal attack case, in July 2019.

Varavara Rao diagnosed with a neurological condition, moved to Nanavati Hospital

Jailed Telegu poet and activist P. Varavara Rao, who was shifted to a government hospital on July 14 because of a rapid deterioration in his health, h

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Rescuers work at the site after a residential building collapsed in Mumbai on July 16.

Building collapse becomes a recurring feature during Mumbai monsoon

Seven persons died and several were injured after two buildings collapsed in Mumbai on July 16. The city has been receiving heavy rainfall for the pas

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P. Varavara Rao being brought to court in Mumbai on February 28.

Jailed activist Varavara Rao hospitalised

P. Varavara Rao, Telugu litterateur, Marxist ideologue and rights activist who has been in jail for about two years now, has been shifted to a private

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Corporation officials and policemen stand guard outside Surat Textile Market, which was sealed a following spike in COVID-19 cases, on July 6.

Surat: Silence of the looms

A combination of labour shortage, liquidity crunch and absence of demand seems to be spelling doom for Surat’s textile trade, until recently an econom

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Waiting at an Urban Health Care Centre to test for COVID, in Ahmedabad on July 8.

Gujarat: Not a model to follow

With the total positivity rate and the case fatality rate almost double the national average, Gujarat appears to have completely lost the grip on mana

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‘Migrants should not be seen as an input’

Interview with R.B. Bhagat, professor, International Institute for Population Studies, Mumbai.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Maharashtra launches plasma therapy trial programme

The Maharashtra government launched Project Platina, a plasma therapy trial programme, at the Government Medical College in Nagpur on June 29. The Sta

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Diamond workers standing in a queue to enter a manufacturing unit after the authorities eased restrictions, in Surat on May 22. But the number of cases too are rising.

Crisis & cover-up

Gujarat’s case fatality rate, the highest in the country, is proof of its inept handling of the COVID-19 crisis. But the BJP government is apparently

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A doctor wearing a protective face shield uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of a child at his mobile health clinic, after his clinic and its adjoining areas were declared a micro-containment zone following the easing of lockdown restrictions, in Ahmedabad on June 15.

Unable to cope

There are 127 hospitals in the State with COVID treatment facilities, but the situation continues to be grim and private hospitals charge as they plea

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Pradeep Sachdeva, architect and urban planner, leaves a lasting legacy

Pradeep Sachdeva, the award-winning, New Delhi-based architect who was well known for designing several landmark public spaces in the capital city, pa

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