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- Need to do our best to avert lockdown, states should use it only as last resort : PM to nation
- ‘Crisis in HCs’, Supreme Court sets timeline for Govt to clear judges’…
- SC stays HC lockdown call as UP says infringes domain, will trigger…
Second Surge
- UP, Assam govts announce free vaccination to all aged above
- Work on war footing to provide oxygen, beds: Rajnath to DPSUs, DRDO
Express Network
- Supreme Court timeline for judges’ appointments a shift from Memorandum of Procedure
- SC paves way for appointment of ad-hoc judges in HCs
- CCMB scientists to culture double mutant, other variants to check if antibodies can neutralise virus
- Delhi HC pulls up Centre over vaccine wastage, says it’s a result of ‘bad planning’
Govt & Politics
- Can’t sweep border issues under the carpet, says India’s envoy to China
- PMs visit to Portugal called off
- 142 on press freedom index, India among countries bad for journalism
Editorial
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World
- Resolution seeking expulsion of French Ambassador tabled in Pak Parliament
- Xi calls for fairer world order amid rivalry with US
- ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis
- We know how to defend our interests : Putin’s emerging hard line
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Economy