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'What corona? My children are hungry'

Despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a nationwide lockdown in a battle against deadly coronavirus, a sea of migrant workers reached Anand Vihar Interstate Bus Terminal in Delhi hoping to reach back to their hometowns

The pain of the migrant worker: State must not be selective in concern for Indian citizen

Saturday (March 28) marked the fourth day since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day national lockdown that has had huge disruptive consequences across the country and differently affected the lives of more than a billion people

India's migrant lug belongings, trudge back to their village homes

It's 11 a.m. and raining in Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi.  A group of 20 labourers trudge along the National Highway lugging at their belongings with one carrying a three-year-old child on his shoulders, walking towards their native place in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar, a distance of over 700 km, as the 21-day nationwide lockdown has brought all work to halt

Stranded foreign tourists in South Asia evacuated amidst COVID-19 fear

Thousands of tourists stranded in South Asian nations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic are being evacuated on special flights

SAARC nations vow to jointly fight COVID-19, India proposes online platform

Top health professionals and officials from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries held a video conference late Thursday night where India proposed launching an electronic platform to share information on the pandemic

Indian hotel chain offers free rooms to medical personnel in US

US Vice President Mike Pence has said that the Indian multinational hospitality company, Oyo Hotels and Homes, is pitching in to help medical personnel on the frontlines of war on coronavirus by offering them free rooms at its hotels in the US

Huge plane hangar-like quarantine facility in northeast India

India's northeast state of Assam - that borders Bangladesh and Bhutan -  is building a massive quarantine centre that looks like an aircraft hanger to keep COVID-19 patients

South Asian nations should protect high-risk groups from COVID-19: Amnesty International

As cases of COVID-19 are increasing in South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions, Amnesty International called on governments “to put human rights at the heart of their responses” and to intensify efforts to protect marginalised and vulnerable groups at higher risk, including daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners

Kerala development model under stress

‘Lockdown' is a word that has entered the Malayalam lexicon along with ‘social distancing’. COVID-19 is impacting Kerala society in an unprecedented way never seen before

Afghan prisoner release to start March 31

A delegation of Taliban will visit the Bagram Jail to identify and verify their prisoners to be released in accordance with the US-Taliban peace agreement

21-day lockdown will come at heavy economic costs to India: Report

As the Indian economy eagerly awaits a financial stimulus to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from causing major harm, a new report said on that the 21-day nationwide lockdown will result in a direct output loss of nearly 4.5 percent, with further indirect effects

India may see a Covid-19 surge by mid-May, warn scientists group

While India seems to have done well so far in keeping down the number of confirmed cases compared to other countries in the early phase of the pandemic, the country may see up to 1.3 million cases by mid-May if the numbers keep growing like this, a group of scientists has warned

Nepal urges industries producing essentials to run at full capacity

The Nepalese government has called upon the industries producing daily essentials to run in full capacity

Kashmiri students stranded at India-Bangladesh border

A group of 70 Kashmiri students studying in Dhaka is stranded at Benaport, the border area between India and Bangladesh, after their colleges were shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has left over 16,500 people dead worldwide

Top Indian medical research body paints grim scenarios for Covid-19

The spread of the novel coronavirus may lead to around a million "symptomatic cases" in Delhi alone in the optimistic scenario, while the numbers may reach up to over 10 million in a pessimistic scenario, according to projections based on a mathematical model by The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)