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‘Everyone here is alone’

How fear, neglect and Covid-19 tore apart a single New Delhi neighborhood.

Patients are being rushed from one hospital to another by their relatives in search of emergency facilities.

Over 500 shanties were reduced to ashes near Noida Sec 65 on Sunday NOIDA: Two sisters, aged three and six years, were charred to death in a fire that reduced over 500 shanties to ashes in Behlolpur village near Noida Sector 65 on Sunday. Officials in the fire department said a short circuit could have caused the flames and a heavy wind fanned them. What may have caused the fire to spread fast was that most of the shanties were made of plastic and tarpaulin sheets and many of them housed godowns of inflammable materials. The villagers said they had also heard a few cooking gas cylinders expl...

(Waves of News), India's only major news outlet run by women from marginalized communities. It focuses on rural reporting through a feminist lens and is led by chief reporter Meera Devi. The film won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at this year's Sundance Festival. It's directed by Indian filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. Khabar Lahariya began as a small Hindi language newspaper in 2002 in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Many of its reporters are Dalits, formally called "untouchables" — people at the very bottom of India's ancient 4-level cas...