In this issue

Highlights of India Today – April 13, 2020 issue: The issue talks about PM Modi's decision to impose a total lockdown in the country as among the most important prime ministerial acts to go down in history since Independence. Never before in human history have a billion-plus people been forced to confine themselves to their homes.

The issue also talks about the three-week-long officially imposed lockdown bringing to a screeching halt the movement of agricultural workers, temporary farm migrants, and farm and related machinery such as combine harvesters, threshers, tractors, trucks and other equipment.

The issue further focuses on Delhi's Nizamuddin area becoming the hotspot for COVID 19 spread in India.

How To Prevent A Breakdown

Midway through the lockdown, India has contained the spread of the novel coronavirus but at an enormous socioeconomic cost. It now needs to ramp up its healthcare facilities, ease the flow of essential supplies and formulate an exit strategy that includes a financial stimulus package to get the economy and its people going again

10 mins

Are We Ready For The Worst?

Across the country, state governments and hospitals gear up to meet the coronavirus challenge. Where do we stand in our battle against the pandemic?

10+ mins

MEETING THE DEMAND FOR SUPPLY

The Rs 15 lakh crore transport and logistics sector is the beating heart of the Indian economy. The sudden national lockdown on March 24 paralysed it, worsening the already gloomy economic outlook. The government must move quickly to mitigate the crisis

10+ mins

TACKLING THE GROWING DESPAIR

The nationwide lockdown has left the urban poor jobless and on the verge of economic obliteration. How can their lives be brought back on track?

10+ mins

SAVING THE HARVEST

The lockdown has turned hopes of a bumper rabi harvest into utter gloom as the movement of labour and farm machinery comes to a halt. Reviving supply chains and a delayed crop will be the focus now

9 mins

THE EXODUS AND AFTER

Stranded in cities with no jobs, homes or food, migrant workers across India are trudging home to their villages, burdened with their possessions and supporting hungry, tired children; or packed in buses with no scope of ‘social distancing’. Their drawn faces reflect the real toll COVID-19 has taken on people’s lives. What the government must now do to help them

9 mins

INSIDE A SUPER SPREAD

How a religious outfit’s congregations have been responsible for a virulent spread of COVID-19 in India and parts of South Asia

7 mins

FORCE AND COMPOSURE

KRISHEN KHANNA REMEMBERS THE PAINTER, SCULPTOR, MURALIST, ARCHITECT AND FRIEND WHO PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 26

4 mins

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