Patients say K’taka hospitals overcharging them in name of COVID-19
Mangaluru, Karnataka: As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in India, the government has been forced to rope in private hospitals to deal with the pandemic. However,...
Assam’s tea industry face the severe impact of coronavirus
Pratyush Deep Kotoky and Bibhuti Bhushan Goswami Jorhat and Silchar: Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown on March 24 to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Assam's...
IT employees turn fruit vendors, printers and cab drivers
Pune, Maharashtra: Ganesh Shitre, 30, a resident of Pune and a former employee at Sensabyte Edusoft Private Limited, an IT company, was asked to resign in March, without...
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 hits 160-year-old Himachal apple industry
Chandigarh: The apple orchards of Himachal Pradesh are facing a crisis brought on by the Covid-19 lockdown and a shortage of labourers from Nepal. According to data from the...
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...