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India’s Covid-19 response limited by strong urban and tech bias June 9, 2021, 4:33 PM IST India’s response to the second wave of Covid-19 glosses over the lack of infrastructure and technology know-how in rural India. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic buckled the country for many weeks. We may have passed the peak, but are still struggling with rising infection rates in many parts of the country, a severe vaccine shortage, and a rocky road to ‘vaccines for all’. With our health systems tested to their seams and thousands of lives lost in a struggle to reach ho...

Designing urban employment schemes for women June 4, 2021, 10:32 AM IST Nikhil Iyer is a Policy Analyst at The Quantum Hub, a public policy research and communications firm based in New Delhi. Seven way to bring women back to the labour force, provide livelihood and income security, and increase women’s agency in cities. With localised restrictions in 34 states and union territories, the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has effectively led to a national lockdown, yet again. Data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) suggests...

"The government is trying to address the situation by basically diverting the sucrose which would otherwise be used for producing sugar as a raw material for generation of ethanol by processing it in the distillery."

Physical distancing is still a dream and vaccine hesitancy the norm. Here’s what the COVID-19 surge looks like in Narsinghpur district, Madhya Pradesh. During the first wave in 2020, although COVID-19 had primarily wreaked devastation...

Millions are suffering from hunger and lack of jobs.