-The Indian Express Home Ministry New Lockdown Guidelines: Under the revised guidelines, a list of things that is allowed during the extended nationwide lockdown till May 3 Home Ministry New Lockdown Guidelines: A day after extending the lockdown to May 3, the government Wednesday released revised guidelines under which activities like agriculture, Information Technology, e-commerce and movement of trucks and goods carriers will be allowed from April 20 to “mitigate hardships to...
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Walking with the migrants, across four states, one story: What do we have here? -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express As the national lockdown entered its second week, The Indian Express travelled across four states to track this unprecedented exodus, examine what social distancing and isolation means in towns and villages off camera and off the highway — and what could await the first COVID-19 patients here. Morena (Madhya Pradesh): They built homes, offices, even cities. They worked in technology companies. They cooked the food we ate, cleaned the...
More »Coronavirus: 54% of Indian firms can’t support work from home, says report
-Hindustan Times A report by Gartner, a leading IT service management company, says that 54 per cent of the companies in India do not have enough technology and resources for employees to work to home. While companies across the world mull over having their employees log in from home in the wake of the coronavirus scare, a report suggests that for many companies in India, this might just be a distant dream. Please...
More »Kerala govt completes 2 lakh houses for needy under 'Life Mission'
-ANI/ The New Indian Express The LDF government is planning to complete 100 apartment complexes using dry construction pre-fab technology in the coming days. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac on Friday said that state government has achieved a milestone by completing two lakh houses under the Life Mission, a government scheme, to provide houses for the needy. "The Left government is committed to providing housing for all. We have achieved a milestone...
More »Drinking water in Bengal basin contains high amounts of toxins, says study Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu For the first time in India, a whole region has recorded the presence of pesticides and PAH in its natural sources of water and surface sediments Kolkata: Groundwater as well as river water in the western Bengal basin has high concentrations of pesticides and toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), a study authored by a group of scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur has revealed. The researchers tested hundreds...
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