-Outlook India While nationwide lockdown is unavoidable and is a wise decision to contain the spread of the virus, there is a need to address the possibility of an unintended baby boom among poor and vulnerable groups. With most countries following nationwide lockdown or stay at home orders due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, there has been a debate on a possible unintended baby boom across the world. Although many demographers from...

-The New Indian Express They stated that it is doubtful whether health workers will ever trust the state of Uttarakhand and will render their services if the state continues to treat them in this manner. DEHRADUN: In serious discrepancy, 15 health workers including doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh are being provided poor food in quarantine facility. At least THRee staff of the AIIMS were tested positive for the COVID-19...

-PTI/ The Hindu On April 20, India’s ambassador to the UAE Pavan Kapoor had warned Indian expatriates against such behaviour. Dubai: THRee more Indians based in the UAE have either been fired or suspended from their jobs for “Islamophobic” posts on social media, days after the Indian ambassador to the Gulf nation warned the expatriates against posting such provocative updates online, a media report has said. Chef Rawat Rohit, storekeeper Sachin Kinnigoli and...

-Vikalp.ind.in The unplanned countrywide COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in widespread distress to both principal classes among the rural population namely the peasants and agricultural workers. Peasants suffered in the first place from crop losses due to unplanned lockdown induced delay in harvesting of mechanised crops. Apart from this an additional problem for peasants was the elevated fluctuation in prices (fall in nominal prices more often than not) of both crops and...

-The Telegraph Health authorities detected 2,411 new cases on Saturday, the first overnight spike, raising the number of Covid-19 patients to 37,776 India’s coronavirus epidemic remains on an exponential growth curve and not a linear curve as government officials had suggested last week, researchers and public health experts tracking the country’s rising Covid-19 counts said on Saturday. Health authorities detected 2,411 new cases on Saturday, the first overnight spike greater than 2,000, raising...