-The Hindu 40% of patients with severe respiratory illness lacked travel history, suggest ICMR scientists There was evidence for community transmission — or instances of coronavirus (COVID-19) in patients who had no established contact with someone who had picked up the disease from abroad — from as early as March 22, suggests a research study in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, authored by several ICMR scientists — including its head Balram...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 1128
As Mills Delay Payments Like Every Year, Lockdown Adds to Sugarcane Farmers' Woes -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Most sugarcane farmers usually sell a part of their produce at local jaggery producing units, but these remain closed at the moment. Meerut: Ankur Kumar is a small farmer with a four-acre farm in Muzaffarnagar’s Vahelna. Like every year, he has sown sugarcane on his field and like every year, he is struggling to get his dues from the sugar mill. “I have deposited 500 quintals so far this season and have...
More »Excess stocks of the Food Corporation of India must be released to the poor -Jean Drèze
-The Indian Express Jean Dreze writes: Releasing food is all the more crucial as the emergency cash transfers proposed by the finance minister are likely to have severe limitations. How would you feel if a family were to let its weakest members starve, even as the house’s granary is full to the brim? That is what is happening in India today. Everyone knows that the country has large food stocks, and that some...
More »Coronavirus Lockdown: Govt. helpline receives 92,000 calls on child abuse and violence in 11 days
-PTI/ The Hindu Deputy Director of Childline India, Harleen Walia suggested the helpline be declared an essential service during the coronavirus Lockdown New Delhi: The Childline India helpline received more than 92,000 SOS calls asking for protection from abuse and violence in 11 days, a sombre indication that the Lockdown has turned into extended captivity not just for many women but also for children trapped with their abusers at home. Please click here...
More »India lost more jobs due to coronavirus Lockdown than US did during Depression -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in New CMIE data shows mind-boggling rise in unemployment since India imposed a nationwide Lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Modi government must step in. While we wait to get a clearer picture of the health coronavirus curve in India, we already have the first estimate of the job-destruction caused by the nation-wide Lockdown. The numbers are staggering, worse than anything the world has ever known. More jobs were lost in India...
More »
