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Promising to send N95 masks to Pakistan, the consignment from China contained masks made out of undergarments. A news anchor responded to that aptly: “China ne choona laga diya.”

Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut has warned that if we all turn off the lights at 9 pm tomorrow as requested by the PM, it can lead to a grid failure. Should we be worried?

As we slow down, the world around is spring back to life. In Dehradun, an elephant was seen casually walking down a street, and Jalandhar residents were delighted to wake up to the sight of snow-capped peaks of Himachal Pradesh’s Dhauladhar mountain ranges for the first time in decades.

In Uttar Pradesh, Tablighi Jamaat patients have been reportedly misbehaving while in quarantine, roaming naked before women nurses. In Assam, those admitted to hospitals were spitting all over the ward and even at medical staff.

These coronavirus cartoons are the perfect balm for the anxious soul.

Just the way the clanging of thaalis did not ward off Covid-19 on March 22, the lighting of candles will not kill the virus on Sunday.

Just like the reality show Bigg Boss, the contestants of the India Lockdown Edition are like the ones on TV. They bicker over which sabzi to cook and who gets to mop the floor today. They have nothing to do all day, so they try to pass time playing carrom or bitching about that NRI relative. And the pan-India season is being hosted by Modi ji.

Yes, this actually happened. An Indian couple named their newborn twins Covid and Corona.

Doctors in Kolkata and Delhi have been flagging the lack of personal protective equipment when dealing with Covid-19 affected patients for days now. In a cruel twist of fate, however, it is the doctors and health workers who have to deal with a serious backlash for their views.

Odisha is the first state in the country to set up two Covid-19 hospitals – one in Bhubaneswar and one in Cuttack. The facility in the state capital can accommodate 500 patients and was constructed within a span of seven days.

The #9baje9minute Diya Event is going to be Lit AF!

I planned to use this quarantine to go all guns blazing on “Project Me”. I zealously attended every online fitness class, gorged down pending reads, and even excitedly brewed my own Dalgona coffee… only to find myself exhausted, sad, and sapped by the fourth day.

With 127 positive coronavirus cases, Telangana is one of the worst-hit states in the country. Yet its ministers and their families were seen performing Ram Navmi rituals at a temple, social distancing be damned.

The city of Shenzhen’s move to ban the consumption of dogs and cats along with wild animals will warm the hearts of those who look at animals as companions rather than cuisine. But Chinese society’s centuries-old relationship with wild animal meat might take more than a single city issuing a ban to dismantle.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with state chief ministers today to discuss the way forward after the 21-day lockdown ends. What we know for sure, is that it’s not going to be business as usual.

Work from home is all rainbows and sunshine until you realise that you are spending more than 12 hours in front of the laptop meeting deadlines. But take a step back and make time for yourself. Pursue a hobby or take up an online course.

The coronavirus pandemic will push the world economy into recession. But if a UN report is to be believed, India is likely to escape it.

Home ministry data shows that 1,051 who attended the Tablighi Jamaat gathering in early March have been quarantined and 21 have tested positive. The states of Delhi and Telangana are the worst hit.

In Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, healthcare workers were attacked by angry locals, as they attempted to screen residents for Covid-19. The quarantined attendees of Tablighi Jamaat spat at doctors while being evacuated.

Sita, the first-ever Indian under lockdown! India’s internet generation is celebrating the reruns of Ramayan with memes and hashtags.

For everyone who is policing people on social media, taking exception to folks posting selfies and travel photos, please back off. People who share daily workouts or coronavirus jokes are not being insensitive, self-centred louts. They are trying to hold on to some semblance of normalcy. It helps them stay afloat instead of drowning in self-pity.

Houseparty and Zoom made social distancing more bearable for many, but after claims of hacking and security breaches emerged over the past week, the good times might be coming to an end.

Let’s take a moment to doff our hats to two brave doctors at the forefront of the Covid-19 fight – Dr Shifa M Mohammed and Dr Sudhir Dehariya. One postponed her wedding, the other made a pitstop at home after a five-day shift, not to rest but get a glimpse of his family from a distance.

Shahid Afridi, Harbhajan Singh, and Yuvraj Singh are cricket legends who’ve have engaged in fierce competition, but are now coming together in the face of Covid-19. Unfortunately, what should have been a powerful message about overcoming differences and banding together was hijacked by some unsavoury trolls on social media.

India has reportedly sent 90 tonnes of “medical protective equipment” to Serbia. Meanwhile, doctors in India fighting the pandemic complain of a critical shortage of surgical gear.

While adults have coping mechanisms and access to information, what about our children who depend on us for assurance in this state of lockdown? How am I supposed to tell my six-year-old, whose greatest concern at the moment is a creepy spider hiding somewhere in our room, that I have no idea when coronavirus will all be over?

Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur is dealing with a pesky problem in the middle of the lockdown. Locals are flooding the essential services helpline and demanding samosas and pizzas. Their punishment – clean the drains.

For hundreds and thousands of migrants stranded across the country, coronavirus is not their biggest worry – starvation and hopelessness is. In Bihar, an 11-year-old boy died after his family could not feed him for three days. In UP, an eight-month-old pregnant woman had to walk for 200 kilometres to return to her village.

The Nizamuddin Markaz gathering in Delhi, which attracted thousands of devotees some of whom were carriers of COVID-19, has become an excuse for several sections of India to paint Indian Muslims as bioterrorists. The hashtag #CoronaJihad is evidence.