Continuing coverage of COVID lockdown

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03-07-202020 STORIES

The swarm before the storm

As the threat of a locust attack looms, and as climate change threatens to increase the frequency of such attacks, Indian agriculture needs a more dur

Burden on children

With the closure of schools, relaxation in labour laws and migration of adult workers, child labour and exploitation of children are expected to rise

The locust that became extinct

Saving the ‘lockdown generation’

Early monitoring reports by the International Labour Organisation suggest that globally the young working population has borne the brunt of the COVID-

A neoliberal blow

The fiscal crisis that the Central government is trapped in cannot be blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic, since the revenue shortfall is primarily a resu

Maze of numbers

In terms of COVID statistics, governments, both at the Centre and in the States, seem keen to hide more than what the numbers could otherwise reveal.

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