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How the accumulation of debt during the Covid-19 pandemic is hurting India’s low-income households Household-debt-to-GDP ratio increased to 37.1% in the second quarter of 2020, The debt levels of daily wage workers around the country have increased, surveys show. | Punit Paranjpe/ AFP Six years ago, 24-year-old Munna Kumar Singh and his family migrated to Delhi from a small town in Bihar, where he worked in a denim factory in the city’s Udyog Vihar for a monthly salary of Rs 9,000. He is the sole breadwinner in the family of four. He also tries to send a small remitt...

Long lines of crammed ambulances, some carrying up to three dead patients, have formed before Lucknow’s two crematoriums since Thursday. Some of the ambulances are having to wait two days or even longer in the queue with the dead and their relatives. It’s not just costing the bereaved families tens of thousands of rupees in ambulance charges but causing an ambulance shortage in the city. At the root of the crisis, crematorium staff and relatives of the dead say, are two developments: n One of the two electric chambers at the Baikunth Dham crematorium and the only one at Gullala Ghat —ea...