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Outlook May 18, 2020 MARCH OF THE MIGRANTS DIGITAL ISSUE www.outlookindia.com THINGS THAT GOT May 18, 2020 COVIDED Ram Temple Mango crop 5G Anti CAA Protests RelaunchSRK *Covided: (verb) to be finished off, killed, postponed, brought to life, revived, hastened...i.e. to be fundamentally affected or altered one way or the other RNI NO. 7044/1961 ‹ N A V I G A T O R › EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ruben Banerjee MANAGING EDITOR Sunil Menon EXECUTIVE EDITOR Satish Padmanabhan FOREIGN EDITOR Pranay Sharma POLITICAL EDITOR Bhavna Vij-Aurora SENIOR EDITOR Giridhar Jha (Mumbai) CHIEF ART DIRECTOR Deepak Sharma WRITERS Lola Nayar, Qaiser Mohammad Ali (Senior Associate Editors), G.C. 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