Temple town Trimbakeshwar goes bankrupt due to COVID-19
Nashik, Maharashtra: The temple town Trimbakeshwar, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas (Lord Shiva shrine) in India, is facing an economic crisis owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Located about...
Covid-19 worsens plight of cotton farmers in Marathwada
Pune, Maharashtra: For the past 20 days, Kuldeep Karpe, a farmer from Beed district in Maharashtra, has been waiting his turn at the ginning (the first mechanical process...
Maharashtra village orders returning migrants to self-quarantine in farms
Beed, Maharashtra: During the lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, the trend of reverse migration has been prevalent. As migrants from different parts of the country...
Covering a pandemic in the age of disinformation and media control
Challenges in gathering and verifying information dominated the discussion in a webinar held to reflect on the difficulties journalists face in a world under lockdown because of coronavirus....
Migrant labourers hit by lockdown, government unpreparedness
Bengaluru: Owing to the introduction and extension of the nationwide lockdown to avoid the spread of novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, migrant workers are facing extreme distress as they fail...
COVID19 audio archive: Desperate times, distress calls and suicidal thoughts
Bengaluru: Mobile Vaani, a voice-based social network, has been documenting the impact of the COVID19-induced lockdown on rural communities, farmers, migrant workers and daily wage labourers. A vast...