New Delhi has gravitated towards other regional groupings in recent years, but it has always used SAARC to achieve specific aims On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a video conference with leaders of the countries comprising the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for sharing strategies as well as exploring possibilities of a regional […]

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Patriot speaks to few of the 500 passengers from Paris and Frankfurt who were detained at the airport for over eight hours for Coronavirus screening ON MARCH 15, Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport didn’t look as busy as the usual days. There was not much of a crowd, barring one spot at the […]

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The tourism industry is hurting — not just travel agencies but also guides, vendors and rickshaw pullers whose daily earnings have dried up SUSHEEL VERMA is operations manager at Janta Travels, a travel agency which has been around since 1977. He says the only time the company witnessed a downturn in business was after the […]

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As the Coronavirus fear grips the country, the common man has become paranoid, putting faith in superstitions and indulging in xenophobia ON MARCH 17, the third case of Covid-19 was found in the NCR suburb of Noida. A man, 35, was found to have contracted coronavirus, after he came back a few days ago from […]

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A lot of misconceptions have been doing the rounds behind the Coronavirus. Here is what the doctors advise WITH A total 166 confirmed cases in India, the highly communicable Coronavirus has the government and medical facilities across the world working towards its containment, as such precautions are mandated and should be followed to ensure fallout […]

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GTB Hospital seems to have been ill-equipped to cope with the rush of patients from the nearby riot-hit area of North East Delhi. Families are alleging negligence and failure to lodge medico-legal cases THAN SINGH, a 50-year-old daily wage worker, was injured on the first day of the gruesome riot that took place at various […]

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‘They threw balloons at us, aiming at our private parts. They saw I had Mongoloid features after I took off my pollution mask and screamed, ‘Aye, coronavirus!’ ON MARCH 3, two students from the Northeast were attacked by six men in Kamla Nagar, near Delhi University’s North Campus. The men were on motorbikes and threw […]

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While most residents of riot-hit areas say it was outsiders who indulged in violence, simmering communal biases definitely played a dark role THE DELHI riots, that jolted the entire country, had many stories of communities cooperating with each other, but this cannot eclipse the fact that a Hindu-Muslim gulf exists in the region. And the […]

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