Your favourite newspaper, The Times of India, is back in Mumbai and Pune after a short break caused by logistical difficulties in delivering the paper in the first week of the lockdown.
The Prime Minister has repeatedly spoken of media as an essential service, and several Central government orders have been issued in the past fortnight to back this up – exempting news-gathering and distribution staff from the lockdown, and asking states to facilitate their movement. Hours before the announcement of the lockdown, the Prime Minister also spoke of the “tremendous credibility” of newspapers
