lockdown in India
Latest reforms dilute workers’ rights in India
May 27, 2020
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s famed INR 20 trillion bailout package delivers a blow to workers even as job losses, triggered by lockdown, rise to highest level in over 40 years.
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Fearful, frenetic, furious flyers
May 25, 2020
Total chaos, cancellations and delays greeted the few thousand flyers at Mumbai airport on Monday as domestic air travel resumed after two months.
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Horrors of a Covid-19 hotspot
May 21, 2020
One of the biggest challenges since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is faced by those living inside a hotspot or containment zone.
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Modi leaves India guessing about lockdown 4.0
May 14, 2020
When yet another address to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was announced, practically everyone in India had a wish to be fulfilled. However, instead of answering prayers or laying out government’s strategy to restore the economy back to health, the speech had only p...
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Salvation Army hospital in Ahmednagar leads battle against coronavirus
May 12, 2020
The Evangeline Booth hospital is well known all over Ahmednagar, a district in western Maharashtra. The 125-year-old institution is run by the Salvation Army, a global Christian charity.
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PM Cares Fund cannibalises NGO funding
May 9, 2020
India’s vibrant civil society landscape risks devastation as the coronavirus pandemic and a severe funding crisis grips NGOs across the nation.
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First migrant special train leaves from Mumbai to Basti
May 8, 2020
On the 44th day since the lockdown began, leaving millions of migrants stranded, Mumbai saw the first special train ferrying 1,140 migrants back to their homes in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh.
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Migrant workers desperate to get home run into a wall of cops in Mumbai
May 6, 2020
With little clarity on trains being run at long last to take millions of migrant workers stuck all over India, thousands in Mumbai decide to hit the road.
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No country for migrant workers
May 1, 2020
The fate of millions of migrant workers across India has been hanging in the balance ever since the lockdown following the coronavirus outbreak was announced 35 days ago.
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Post-lockdown industrial revival remains a distant dream
April 29, 2020
Central government’s conditions for letting select industries restart are proving to be a non-starter.
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Virtual weddings to overcome real lockdowns
April 23, 2020
April marks the beginning of wedding season in India. But with the lockdown ruling out large gatherings, some couples are turning to the digital space to tie the knot.
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Rural India bears the brunt of coronavirus fallout
April 21, 2020
While the spread of covid19 has mainly been in urban India, the worst impact of the pandemic is being felt in its villages.
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