Tag: lockdown
India witnesses an exponential rise in domestic violence cases during lockdown
Kolkata: Bobita Gogoi (name change on request), a twenty-four-year-old working mother used to work as a domestic help in Guwahati, prior to the lockdown...
Kolkata school hikes fees, continues to ask for bimonthly payment
Kolkata: A CBSE-affiliated school in south Kolkata has hiked its fees for the academic session 2020-21.
DAV Public School in Taratala has hiked admission fees...
Bengal police get innovative in campaign against Coronavirus
Birbhum/Kolkata: With Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s orders that the lockdown in Bengal will be strict but humane, the state’s police force has the task...
Muslims in Bengal’s Bhatpara municipality face religious discrimination
Kolkata: Rukhsar Perween, a class 10 student has to walk a few extra miles to collect her drinking water, amid the on-going lockdown. The...
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren orders inquiry into migrants getting threat for asking water at quarantine centre
Kolkata: When the news report highlighting the plight of migrant workers put up at a quarantine centre in Maithan was published, Jharkhand’s Chief Minister...
Bengal jute mill workers face acute food scarcity amid lockdown, activists write to Mamata
Kolkata: The lockdown has got another extension of 19 days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today announced that the lockdown would continue till May 3...