-Newsclick.in A majority of enterprises surveyed said they were finding it difficult to manage staff and operations, the ILO report says. New Delhi: As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts several economies worldwide, particularly India’s, a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says that the greatest challenge faced by businesses across the globe has been keeping up cash flow to manage operations and staff, tide over supplier disruptions and gaining access to...

-NDTV Farmers' protests over the hurriedly passed Farm Bills in the Lok Sabha's monsoon session have been brewing since September. The union government made half-hearted attempts to engage their leaders, failing initially when farmers' representatives objected to being received by bureaucrats and not the concerned minister. The distrust level worsened after the Akali Dal's sole cabinet representative, Harsimrat Badal, resigned. Most saw it as the Akalis belatedly trying to retrieve their...

-The Hindu Coastal Students’ Cultural Forum, an NGO, documents the indigenous knowledge of fishing community in the district through a community radio Kizhakkaafrican raajuvil Velameen entra raaniyum thekkaafrican raajuvil Nemmeen entra arasanum irukkirar (there lived the queen of East African region, Velameen and the king of South African territory, Nemmeen). Thiruvananthapuram: That is how James Pethiru starts his Tamil kathaprasangam (story-telling performance). Apparently, nemmeen (seer fish) proposes marriage to velameen (white snapper) only...

-The New Indian Express As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and  state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse. KOCHI: As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and  state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse.Who are to receive vaccinations first has been...

-The Telegraph The demand for nurses and attendants has gone up by more than 20 per cent in the past couple of weeks, due to rise in the number of non-Covid cases Calcutta: An increased demand for homecare and nursing assistance has left many Covid patients in Calcutta who are getting discharged from hospital without help even as family members are desperately calling up homecare service providers. Several such agencies who provide trained...