Important Articles from Indian Express : 22/12/2020

Front Page

• Concerns over new strain :India stops UK flights (GS-2)
• Covid-19 new strain: Caution is key, details of threat not clear as… (GS-2)

Express Network

• Sugar demand still low, dues pending, Maharashtra mills report distress sales (GS-3)

Govt & politics

• Boeing: Super Hornet clears ski-jump test, suitable for Navy carrier
• Russia envoy: S-400 deal advancing… don’t recognise unilateral sanctions (GS-2)
• India, Vietnam to boost Indo-Pacific ties (GS-2)

Express Network

• 60% rise in leopard numbers from 2014 estimates: Prakash Javadekar (GS-3)
• House panel seeks leash on pvt hospitals, migrant data (GS-2)
• Covid-19 vaccine likely to fight of any mutations to virus: CSIR chief (GS-2/3)

Editorial

• India’s new Europolitik
• Crisis in Kathmandu

Ideas Page

• New Welfarism of India’s Right

Explained

• Decoding the virus variant
• Seasonal UV radiation and global Covid trends

World

• Australia detects UK’s covid strain as several countries shut door on Britain

Economy

• PSBs scan older loans, may lead to more fraud discovery (GS-3)
• NCAER revises FY21 projection to -7.3% on ‘sharp recovery in Q2’ (GS-3)
• Suspension of IBC … can be up to March 31: FM Nirmala Sitharaman (GS-3)