New Delhi:The flagship government programme to provide functional tap water connection to every rural household has seen hectic activity in June, especially in 116 districts that recorded maximum migrant labourer returns, even as the industry is slowly sputtering back into activity after the lockdown. Latest data from the Jal Shakti ministry shows that nearly four … Read more
The effects of Covid-19 are highly skewed across age groups: the aged are the most vulnerable; children and youth are the least. The effects of lockdowns are also skewed: the aged and the retired are the least affected; nonelderly adults, youth and children are the most. Lockdown will not affect the incomes of the aged … Read more
Three months after it reopened its economy, Wuhan’s uneven recovery offers a glimpse of the hard road back to normality for cities after containing the coronavirus. As of May, factory output, retail sales and exports in the city were nowhere near the same level as last year. That’s even though some factories worked throughout the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Facebook owned messaging giant WhatsApp said on Thursday that WhatsApp Business users have found tremendous value in the platform during the lockdown in India and it is now getting more than 15 million users on the app in the country every month. Globally, WhatsApp said it has more than 50 million people using … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to expand the areas under lockdown and impose tougher restrictions from July 9 to stem the relentless spike in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said. The containment zones and buffer zones around them will be clubbed together and constitute a “broad-based” containment zone where total lockdown will … Read more