Reportage On the International Workers’s Day, hundreds of migrant Andhra fish workers still stranded in boats at two harbours in Karnataka While over 4,000 migrant fishers from Andhra head back home from Veraval harbour in Gujarat, where they were stranded since...
Reportage With an eye on this year’s monsoon, Karnataka is undertaking water conservation works and providing income support to rural people during the lockdown COVID-19 and the lockdown have affected wage employment under the rural employment guarantee scheme. Between April 1 and April 23,...
Reportage Two stranded migrant fish workers from Andhra dead in Gujarat. State governments get into action to rescue the others Thousands of fishers from Andhra Pradesh are stranded in the boats along the Gujarat coast. They cannot return home because...
Reportage Lockdown has cleaned the air of urban India. But the coronavirus pandemic is not an opportunity. It is a disaster Between March 25 and April 19, Delhi has recorded a reduction in PM10 levels by 57%, PM2.5 by 45%, nitrogen...
Reportage Rajasthan farmers are the world’s second-largest producers of cumin seed. But they are locked out and unable to sell their harvested produce After facing crop losses due to locust attack and unseasonal rains, jeera farmers in Rajasthan complain they are unable to...
Reportage PM Modi extends nationwide lockdown till May 3. More than 100,000 fishers still stranded in their boats off the Maharashtra coast The 21-day lockdown, announced on March 24, has now been extended to 40 days till May 3. Over one lakh...
Reportage Their work is considered illegal which invisibilizes them. Coronavirus and social distancing have further pushed the sex workers into a dungeon India has an estimated 1.2 million sex workers who have no clear legal standing, thus making these marginalised women ‘criminals’....
Reportage The lockdown has increased vulnerabilities of people with disabilities Officially, 2.2 per cent people in India have disabilities. But the sector experts claim this figure is as high as...
Reportage Braving the odds, front-line health workers are home delivering dry ration to millions of anganwadi kids and beneficiary mothers Anganwadi workers and helpers are walking an extra mile to home deliver wheat, rice, pulses, oil, in some states even...
Reportage Lockdown enforced when they were at sea — so more than a lakh of fishers now wait in deep waters At least a hundred thousand migrant fish workers are stranded in fishing boats off the Maharashtra coast. Meanwhile, the lockdown...
