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  1. | India's foremost electoral strategist breaks down the political impact of the outbreak with Karan Thapar.

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  2. .: A lockdown helps flatten the curve but will not make it disappear. We will have to face smaller and intermittent outbreaks in the future.

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  3. According to , the South Asia director of , “Government policies have opened the door for mob violence and police inaction that have instilled fear among Muslims and other minority communities throughout the country.” | writes.

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    Corporates, instead, will have to donate to a state government’s disaster management authority in order to claim it as CSR spending.

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    . has reported that British Airways will fly back 900 UK nationals stranded in Gujarat due to the lockdown.

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    With diminished orders, several workers claim they received no minimum guarantee or any payout from the companies since the lockdown. Not all workers have been able to produce passes which has resulted in various incidents of brutal police violence.

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    When there isn’t a pandemic, extensive fishing is possible because governments subsidise it. Governments around the world spend an estimated $35 billion a year (Rs 2.66 lakh crore) on fishing subsidies.

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    Rajan, 57, who was the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor for three years until September 2016, is currently working as a professor at the prestigious University of Chicago.

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    “The manner in which the UP government and its police have been pursuing this with a single-minded agenda smacks of vindictiveness. The state has an extra responsibility to exercise restraint on use of its powers."

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    'Clarification' came after health ministry contradicted what the BJP said about an 'ICMR study'. But even then, no explanation was offered for why daily cases were projected to grow by 41% in the absence of a lockdown.

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    Former Editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger on the UP police cases against The Wire:

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    Rajan, 57, who was the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor for three years until September 2016, is currently working as a professor at the prestigious University of Chicago.

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    Tech giants Apple and Google said on Friday that they will be collaborating to work on contact tracing technology, to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. This will allow users to opt in to logging other phones they have been in proximity to.

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    The chief minister was miffed with Ramesh Kumar's move to postpone local body elections. The ordinance reduced the state election commissioner's term to three years from five and may face legal scrutiny.

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    A study suggests that warmer and more humid climes could diminish the virus’s transmission rate. “This relationship is not strong enough to wipe off the virus from any region,” Qasim Bukhari.

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    While the country’s political leaders seem to be united in their demand for a longer lockdown, what do scientists say? The Wire Science posed the following question to three experts, and their answers are reproduced in full below:

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    When India reported the country’s first coronavirus case on January 30, senior officials and doctors of the union territory of Ladakh met the next day to assess preparations to combat the infectious disease.

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    India now has 7,529 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The ministry also reported that there have been 242 deaths due to the viral infection, while 653 people have been cured/discharged or migrated.

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    More than 100 journalists have condemned the FIRs filed against founding editor of The Wire, by the Uttar Pradesh government.

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    The Delhi Union of Journalists has described the UP police’s move to serve a notice on Siddharth Varadarajan, The Wire‘s founding editor, as “harassment of a senior journalist and an attack on media freedom at a critical time”.

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