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Highlights of India Today –6th July 2020 issue:The pandemic has disrupted the academic year and forced students and colleges to rethink the admission process. With this in mind, this week's cover story brings you an in-depth guide to the best colleges in India. The colleges have been ranked across a range of specialities.

This issue also takes a look at the hunt for the elusive drug for the novel coronavirus.

COVID -19: The Elusive Miracle Drug

Rudra Govind runs a pharmacy in Delhi’s Shahdara. He remembers the rush for hydroxychloroquine in April when the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) announced it as a possible prophylactic—his stock sold out within two days. Predictably, there is a similar surge in demand for two new COVID drugs—Favipiravir and Remdesivir—as they enter the market.

4 mins

Covid Hotspots: Can The Big Five Turn The Tide?

Not far from Azadpur Mandi in North Delhi stands Mahendru Enclave. A tanker sprays sodium hypochlorite in the narrow bylanes every morning. Here, 47 homes in Gali nos. 3, 4, and 5 were marked as a single containment zone on June 5, making it one of the largest COVID clusters among the national capital’s 240 active containment zones as on June 23. Only 4 km away, in Jahangirpuri, another 400 homes make up 10 of the 32 clusters in North Delhi district. This entire area has been a hotspot since April when one COVID-positive woman infected 26 members of her family.

5 mins

DRONES: NEW WINGS IN WAR ON LOCUSTS

The government has mounted a new air defence to take down the swarms of desert locusts threatening crops across western, northern and central India for the past two months.

2 mins

INDIA-CHINA: Is the New Détente Credible?

Indian and Chinese troops have agreed to disengage at multiple points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. But the massive unprecedented build-up along the long LAC and the new permanent fortifications in the Pangong Tso area challenge optimism about a cessation of hostilities.

3 mins

THE COVID BATCH

The pandemic has disrupted the academic year and forced students and colleges to rethink the admission process. Here’s our annual guide to the best colleges, with a difference

5 mins

THE TRADE PUNDITS

SRCC’s future-oriented courses and its own standing as a national resource centre speak of its pedigree

3 mins

CUTTING EDGE

Fashion-forward NIFT stands firmly on the top, ever quick to adapt to changes in the field of fashion and design studies

4 mins

ART: VIRTUALLY MASTERFUL

In Reena Mohan’s 1992 documentary about Kamlabai Gokhale, there’s a moment when the remarkably lively nonagenarian actor remembers Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema, whose 1913 mythological Mohini Bhasmasur made Gokhale one of the first Indian women to appear on the screen. Her gaze settles contentedly on an image she has clearly held in her mind for nearly 80 years. “Black sherwani, pagri on his head, spectacles,” she says. “He was like someone in a Ravi Varma painting. It made you happy to see him.”

3 mins

SPORTS: FOOTBALL'S COMEBACK

THE ABSENCE OF FANS HAS ROBBED FOOTBALL OF ITS HUMAN SPECTACLE, BUT FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, THE GAME MUST GO ON

3 mins

Q+A - ACTOR: The Conscientious

Rahul Bose stands out in a milieu that has come to prize quantity over quality. Unwilling to compromise in the latter half of his career, the actor finally said yes to a part in Netflix’s Bulbbul.

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