COVID-19: How community platforms can help stem violence against women

Reduced availability of frontline healthcare workers  is likely, since the entire health system is focused on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

COVID-19 will magnify food shortage in Africa

The pandemic can more than double the number of people facing food crisis, unless swift action is taken, warned Global Network Against Food Crises

Lessons from COVID-19 on reducing India's environmental pollution

We can tackle our pollution problems by emulating approaches adopted to successfully tackle COVID-19

COVID-19: Here's what decentralised planning teaches us to curb pandemics

Decentralised infrastructure and services provide a range of benefits for all stakeholders

Every drop counts in these times of COVID-19

The most important lesson learnt during the current pandemic is that we need to ensure everybody has access to clean water

COVID-19: Next 6 months crucial for Centre to support migrant workers

Centre should form a national task force with active participation of both kinds of states: Those who send and receive migrants

First-hand: 6 days of COVID-19 containment

Observations on ecological changes around my house

5 tips to help parents navigate the unique needs of children with autism learning from home

Research shows adapting teaching to incorporate students’ special interests can help students on the autism spectrum learn academic and social skills

STEMming brain drain in COVID-19 era  

Brain drain is likely to re-emerge as an important conflict of interest between source and recipient countries

COVID-19: Second waves emerge in many countries. Is India ready?

Easing lockdown restrictions will need to be implemented with great caution

COVID-19: Moving from flattening the curve to a pandemic resilient nation

The nation cannot afford the psychological and economic toll of heavy restrictions on the population at large

COVID-19 has made the invisible visible

Migrants make economies tick and now with their return there are many questions about the future of work, of environment and of rural rebuilding

COVID-19: Unfolding the dismissal of nation-wide lockdown

The Centre has divided India’s districts in 3 zones amid the nationwide lockdown. Here, researchers from the International Institute for Population Sciences categorise them in 4 zones of severity and recommends the course of actions

COVID-19: Land is key to survival of indigenous peoples in Asia

Those who are in their forest abodes, are self-sufficient; But those who have been forcibly evicted, will find it hard to survive the pandemic

Accepting, suffering and resisting: The 3 ways people are reacting to COVID-19

Impact of COVID-19 measures and our underlying attitudes are non-uniform, notes analysis from King’s College London 

COVID-19: Spice growers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala face looming crisis

With roads leading to plantations shut, spice cultivation has been badly hit

Kerala and Cuba: How Left cousins won praise for COVID-19 fight

Both communist governments are battling out the pandemic with robust healthcare and emergency services

Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?

The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.

What dreams may come: Why you’re having more vivid dreams during the pandemic

Studies indicate people may be sleeping more and moving less during the pandemic

Cut off amid CVID-19 lockdown: How a positive case next door changes the way I live

One of the latest novel coronavirus positive case in Delhi is at Kalkaji — a house away from mine

Where does the world stand 4 months into COVID-19?

It has learnt at a deadly cost that inequality in development has the power to make a health emergency into a long-term problem