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URL copied 1.7 lakh people lost jobs every hour last April: Report While the wealth of nations top 100 billionaires increased by Rs 12.97 lakh crore since March 2020, about 1.7 lakh people lost their jobs every hour in April 2020 alone. Oxfam India's CEO Amitabh Behar says, "To contextualise the inequity in what is the biggest economic crisis in the history of independent India, the wealth of the nation's top 100 billionaires went up by Rs 12,97,822 crores since March 2020, while in April alone over 170,000 people lost their jobs every hour. Just this increase in wealth could sustai...

Preparing for a crisis and contributing to the response Medical schools all over the world have taken on the additional burden of treating COVID-19 patients. Researchers in pharmaceutical and related sciences have contributed to the development of vaccines. But what about those which have contributed to human and social developments related to COVID-19? Azim Premji University in Bangalore has a specific social purpose of creating reflective practitioners in the domain of education and development. This is an integral goal of the Azim Premji Foundation, a major philanthropic organisation whi...

Migrant workers walked thousands of kilometers to villages after losing their livelihood in big cities. Many of them are slowly returning to work in the metros once again while the Covid-19 threat looms large