Rahul Gandhi causes embarrassment to Cong CMs, albeit unwittingly

He has mooted the idea that the Centre help the poor in the country cope with the economic distress from the nationwide lockdown

Flying in the face

Actor Amitabh Bachchan (pictured) on Wednesday tweeted that a study in a prestigious medical journal had shown that coronavirus “lingers on human excreta much longer than in respiratory samples”. Connecting it to the Clean India Campaign, for which he is brand ambassador, Bachchan implored all: “Come on India, we are going to fight this! Use your toilet.” However, some of his Twitter followers requested him to cite the link to the study, and also reminded him he recently had to delete a tweet in which he had claimed that vibrations from clapping could destroy the virus. On