Private hospitals are the latest battleground in the war against the virus. As the number of cases escalate, so do patient bills. The biggest reason: the operational costs of safety protocols. Also: stingy insurance companies.
Nine people have died in less than 48 hours in the special trains arranged to take migrant workers home. We took a closer look and discovered a toxic and all-too-familiar cocktail of incompetence and indifference.
Indian farmers now face the prospect of losing their recently sowed kharif or winter crops to massive swarms of locusts—adding to the already dire situation created by the pandemic.
After enduring long perilous journeys and near-starvation, millions of migrant workers have reached their villages—to be welcomed with unemployment, quarantine and resentment.
The Union government ordered the resumption of domestic flights from today—in a limited fashion. But pushback from badly affected states has led to last minute ‘modifications’, creating total chaos in flight schedules.
