-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...
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Wilting flowers, declining demand push floriculturists to despair during pandemic -Puja Awasthi
-The Week Flower growers across the country might be forced to discontinue cultivation Times have never been so rotten, say flower growers as the sight of wilting flowers across fields during the nationwide lockdown are driving them to despair. If the government does not step in to help them, these floriculturists might be forced to discontinue flower cultivation. Ram Chander, a 40-year-old flower grower in the village of Ramnagar (Mal block, Lucknow) has...
More »More than 1,100 feminists issue solidarity statement condemning police crackdown on anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protestors during COVID-19 lockdown
-Press note by Feminists Against CAA, dated 3rd May, 2020 More than 1,100 women and feminists all across the globe have joined hands to protest against the detention and arrest of 800+ anti-Citizenship Amendment Act activists. A statement has been issued to condemn the crackdown on anti-CAA-NPR-NRC activists (including Muslim men and women) in Delhi. Please click here to access the statement. Please click here to access the list of signatories. For...
More »1,600 kg aata, 1,200 kg rice daily — how Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurdwara is feeding 75k people -Bismee Taskin and Manisha Mondal
-ThePrint.in Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management says the number of people they feed has increased since it first began distributing food after the nationwide lockdown. New Delhi: The Bangla Sahib Gurdwara in the heart of Delhi has seldom let any hungry visitor go without food. With the pandemic now leaving thousands scrambling for their daily meals, the gurdwara’s community kitchen has taken the lead to feed over 75,000 people every day. The kitchen uses...
More »The PM-CARES Fund: Flip-Flops on an Unnecessary Issue? -Sudhansu Mohanty
-Newsclick.in For the sake of transparency and public knowing, shouldn’t the PM-CARES be merged with the PMNRF to grant it credence and credibility in these times? It is commendable that the Department of Revenue (DoR) gave into the widespread criticism of its earlier circular from April 17, 2020, and modified it through another circular dated April 29, 2020. But, it has done so – only partially. Broadly, there were two troubling issues in...
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