You likely own some reusable bags already, whether you bought them from your local grocery store or received one as a giveaway after donating to a charity. And you should use them. But tote devotees know that different occasions warrant different styles: You may stash a pocket-sized tote in your backpack for last-minute grocery...
Travel the great indoors for a glimpse of your city’s natural world – Mongabay-India
In Chennai, M. Yuvan, a nature educator and writer, has been using the peace in his otherwise noisy neighbourhood near a railway station to make careful observations of non-human life forms. These observations are made at Yuvan’s balcony that overlooks a fallow land where he has spotted around 40 species of birds over three...
Coronavirus in India: Covid-19 patient with no travel history dies in Madhya Pradesh – India Today
A 49-year-old Covid-19 patient died in Madhya Pradesh, taking the number of coronavirus deaths in the state to five, an official said on Tuesday. The woman, a resident of Chandan Nagar, breathed her last at the Manorama Raje TB Hospital, an official from Government Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College said. Follow LIVE UDPATES on...
India’s COVID-19 lockdown hits HIV+ and chronic patients hard – Al Jazeera English
On the morning of March 26, the third day of lockdown in India’s capital over coronavirus fears, 15-year-old Himanshu’s mother tried to board a state-run bus to collect her son’s medicines for HIV from a government-run hospital. It was her scheduled day to pick up the monthly anti-retroviral therapy (ART) drugs, the HIV-suppressing drug that...
India’s Coronavirus Lockdown Leaves Vast Numbers Stranded and Hungry – The New York Times
NEW DELHI — In one of the biggest migrations in India’s modern history, hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers have begun long journeys on foot to get home, having been rendered homeless and jobless by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. With businesses shut down in cities...
Covid-19 pandemic: Australia 6-month travel ban could affect India’s tour in October – India Today
The Australian government’s decision to seal its border for the next six months owing to the coronavirus pandemic could adversely affect India’s Futures Tours Programme (FTP), including the much-awaited face-offs Down Under later this year. India’s tour of Australia is to begin with a T20 tri-series in October and end with the Tests in...
DGCA extends domestic flight ban in India till 14 April amid country lockdown – Happytrips
After all the international flights were banned till 14 April following India lockdown amid COVID 19 outbreak, now Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), aviation regulator, has decided to ban all the domestic flight operations till the same period. The decision was taken by the aviation body on Friday due to the Coronavirus pandemic....
Coronavirus lockdown in India: ‘Beaten and abused for doing my job’ – BBC News
Image caption Ramprasad Shah sells vegetables in Noida India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, suddenly announced on 23 March that the entire country would be put under lockdown. This left many delivery services and vendors of essential services unprepared, leading to confusion and clashes between police and their staff in many areas. The BBC’s Vikas...
DGCA extends domestic flight ban in India till 14 April amid country lockdown – Times of India
After all the international flights were banned till 14 April following India lockdown amid COVID 19 outbreak, now Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), aviation regulator, has decided to ban all the domestic flight operations till the same period. The decision was taken by the aviation body on Friday due to the Coronavirus pandemic....
Marathwada: Foreign returnees asked to share travel history – India Today
The Aurangabad Divisional Commissioner office has directed the residents of Marathwada region to inform the authorities about their travel history if they have returned from abroad on or after March 1. Those who returned from foreign countries will have to share the details of their travel to the district collectorate or the local civic...