Sarah Farooqui

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Challenges in claiming death insurance

Cases growing fastest in India, how vaccine nationalism threatens to block recovery, and how schools can make up for the lost time-roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic.

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Country's pandemic growth rate fastest in world

Delhi govt to tackle unemployment with new job portal, why Bihar's public healthcare system struggles, and what's needed for immunity from Covid-19-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Country could have 100 mn case in six weeks

How Jaipur has kept its health workers motivated, Covid-19 risk doesn't depend (much) on blood type, and what you need to know about pulse oximeters - news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

BS READS: Job security vs skill upgrade - the future of one-year MBA course

As the IIMs discuss the status of degrees, the programmes themselves face many questions about placements and applications in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: UP, Bihar worst in Covid reporting, finds study

Daily positivity rate at 11.61%, private hospitals struggle to access remdesivir, and how much should you worry about air conditioning-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Coronavirus India dispatch: What are the Covid-19 endgame scenarios?

A roundup of articles in Indian news publications on how India is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic

India coronavirus dispatch: The next phase needs less fear, more governance

A roundup of articles in Indian news publications on how India is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Can you get Covid-19 again? Very unlikely, experts say

Bihar's health system is collapsing, why PDS shops should provide rations to all, and a study links long-time cancer with risk of severe Covid-19-a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pan

Tug-of-war over a $500-mn World Bank loan to transform school education

World Bank says loan will boost public-service delivery without enabling privatisation; experts against handing over primary education to non-state entities, find project goals dissonant

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Denying community spread hampers Covid response

Covid fiscal response and India's standing, Goa struggles to control third wave, and why cough droplets travel longer when it's cold & humid-a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Decoding why a vaccine offers new Covid hope

Covid-19 claims lives of 104 doctors, Maharashtra reports another surge of over 8,000 fresh cases, and why only 10% Indians believe they face risk-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus dispatch: Link between Mumbai's slums and Covid spread

Adapting health care and education post-Covid, no link between currency notes and Covid spread, and why some patients suffer fatigue even after recovery-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Southern states drive Covid growth

Broader effects of Covid on human body, Kerala's plan to manage community transfer, and ensuring every citizen gets the vaccine when it is ready-how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Strategies to contain the spread in future

Experts on India's future coronavirus graph, why India's planned air bubbles are not exactly that, how Covid has changed consumer behaviour-a roundup news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India Coronavirus Dispatch: How the country got to a million Covid-19 cases

Improvement in economy may slow down in second quarter, 70% new cases in Kerala due to local spread, and how effective a vaccine needs to be-a roundup news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India coronavirus dispatch: Precarious condition of hospital cleaning staff

Live streaming of court proceedings, ways in which Parliament can resume functioning, and how Thane Covid cases nearly tripled in June-roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India coronavirus dispatch: Demystifying Covid-19 care, if you are infected

Bengaluru's spike explained, no need for government doctor prescription for Covid-19 test, and how a wedding led to 100 Covid-19 positive cases

India coronavirus dispatch: States can't seal borders under Unlock 2.0

Navi Mumbai's 'Covid war room', performance of centre's food distribution schemes so far, and why audits are still missing Covid deaths-a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemi

India coronavirus dispatch: Lessons from the Sri Lankan experience

Why India's jails remain overcrowded during pandemic, the relationship between Vitamin D and Covid-19, and building a quarantine bubble-a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India coronavirus dispatch: 40% Jan Dhan holders can't access govt's relief

How Covid-19 impacts mental health, India's hotels are reimagining hospitality industry, asymptomatic patients can develop lung damage - a roundup of new on how India is dealing with the pandemic