Stranded Migrant Workers Struggle Under Lockdown
India’s 21-day lockdown to fight the coronavirus has left hundreds of migrant workers stranded in…
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Infection Spikes With Search On For 9,000 Exposed To Delhi Cluster
India reported its biggest single day increase in coronavirus cases as officials on Thursday raced…
Racing To Stop Covid-19, India Scours Mosques
As coronavirus cases rose across densely-populated South Asia, authorities scoured mosques in northern India on…
Doctors Fight Covid-19 With Raincoats, Helmets
Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and…
Tear Gas Fired At Workers Defying Covid-19 Lockdown
Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers…
No Plan To Extend Lockdown As The Poor Struggle
India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the…
Covid-19: Modi Seeks ‘Forgiveness’ From India’s Poor
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic…
India Needs Atleast 38mn Masks To Fight Covid-19
India needs at least 38 million masks and 6.2 million pieces of personal protective equipment…
Coronavirus Call Centres Set Up To Stop Stampede To Hospitals
Health authorities set up coronavirus call centres in urban centres across India on Friday, scrambling…
‘Stigmatised’: Covid-19 ‘Heroes’ Come Under Attack
Doctors, nurses and other frontline workers in the fight against coronavirus in India, who have…
Bruised Economy To Be Battered Further By Covid-19: Poll
India’s already-slowing economy weakened to at least an eight-year low this quarter and will slow…
$23-bn Eco Stimulus To Help Poor Hit By Lockdown
India announced on Thursday a 1.7-trillion-rupee ($22.6-billion) economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and…
Coronavirus Cases Up Despite Immense Lockdown
Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on…
“Solidarity With India, Lockdown Comprehensive, Robust”: UN
The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top…
India Struggles With Coronavirus Shutdown
India’s 1.3 billion people were under lockdown on Wednesday to prevent an explosion of coronavirus…
Gunmen Kill 25 In Raid On Afghanistan’s Sikh Complex
Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of…
Outsourcing Industry Struggles With Work-From-Home Scenario
As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centers and IT services…
Scramble For Supplies As 3-Week Covid-19 Lockdown Begins
Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday in a struggle for essential items after…
India In Lockdown As Covid-19 Appears In Small Towns
Police enforced lockdowns across large parts of India on Tuesday, with curfews in some places,…
Delhi Police Clear Out Shaheen Bagh Protest Site
Police in New Delhi broke up the longest-running protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s citizenship…
Covid-19 Lockdown: India’s Poor Fear For Future
Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai’s streets for two months last year, unable to make…
Covid-19: PM Modi Tells Indians To Save Themselves
Streets were deserted in Delhi on Monday and office buildings shuttered as a lockdown to…
People Cheer Emergency Workers During Covid-19 Lockdown
Indians came out onto their balconies and stood near open windows to clap, clang metal…
Covid-19: Delhi, Scores Of Districts Under Lockdown
New Delhi will be under lockdown until March 31, the national capital’s government announced on…
Modi Urges Citizens To Stay Home As Virus Spreads
Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to citizens to stay home and avoid panic buying, even…