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What lies ahead for the six million working in urban retail stores?

July 2, 2020 Raghu Roy

Conversations with HR professionals paint a gloomy future in the retail sector, that employs 60 lakh people in city stores alone. What can young employees do to improve their chances?

Locked down? Here’s how to grow your own food and become self-reliant

July 2, 2020 Himanshu Arteev

Imagine edible gardens on all rooftops in cities, apartments with community gardens, parks turned to edible food forests. That would be resilience, and you could build it too.

Six ways to empower our city governments

June 30, 2020 Milind Mhaske and Meghna Bandelwar

A pan-India research study identifies the challenges faced by urban governments from devolution of power to financial independence, and possible solutions to strengthen them.

Providing information, support and hope: How an association of Pune housing societies came together to fight the pandemic

June 30, 2020 Sanjeev Kumar Patil

An example of a community fighting the COVID-19 crisis — helping migrants, collaborating with authorities and most importantly, providing much needed support and guidance to all residents.

Emotions run high as markets in Srinagar reopen after 85-day lockdown

June 29, 2020 Abid Bashir Wani

Srinagar markets are open and business is gradually picking up. But customers are still few, and many traders are yet to get over the loss they have suffered.

City Buzz: Delhi fights to contain COVID-19 | Locust swarms enter Gurugram | Water scarcity looms over Mumbai… and more

June 28, 2020 News Desk

COVID-19 and other urban highlights from NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.

Amend EIA Notification 2020, ‘an embarrassment to country internationally’: Students write to Environment Minister

June 27, 2020 News Desk

In an initiative spearheaded by an environmental group of Ashoka University, these youth have requested that the regulatory notification be deferred and rewritten as per recommendations by experts.

How Gurugram is managing biomedical waste from residential communities in the time of COVID-19

June 26, 2020 Monika Khanna Gulati

Despite the guidelines from CPCB, management of biomedical waste is proving to be tough on the ground at several levels. Some suggestions for Gurugram

Why Kolkata’s post-cyclone reforestation spree has failed to cheer environmentalists

June 26, 2020 Gurvinder Singh

Several thousands of trees were uprooted as Cyclone Amphan battered Kolkata. Since then tree plantation drives have been rampant. What are tree experts saying about these?

Despite hundreds of crores spent on desilting, why Mumbai could still see flooding this monsoon

June 24, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

A BMC press note assures citizens of corrective action taken in 169 flood-prone spots and ongoing work at 43 spots, but what Mumbai really needs is sustained, hydrology-based water bodies management.

Eight things you must know about insurance policies covering COVID-19 treatment

June 24, 2020 Bhavani Prabhakar

Most insurance companies have included COVID treatment in their existing policies. For frontline workers, the government has a special package. Read here to know more.

How to prepare for the new future of jobs in a post-COVID world

June 23, 2020 M G Parameswaran

Just as electricity changed factories, technology changed the office. COVID will change it further, with the future of most jobs looking very different. The better prepared you are, the more successful you’ll be.

Getting cyclists back on the roads of Pune needs more than just directives

June 23, 2020 Ambika Shaligram

The enthusiasm of the city’s bicycle enthusiasts is contagious. But Pune still has some way to go in creating a safe, city-wide cycling infrastructure.

City Buzz: COVID-control in Mumbai, Bhopal | Mask rules flouted in Hyderabad and Ludhiana | Nagpur police crack down on illegal silencers… and more

June 22, 2020 News Desk

Cities are struggling to implement norms on masks and social distancing. Catch updates on this and other key urban highlights from the week that passed.

How to prevent deaths by suicide

June 20, 2020 Deepa Vaishnavi V M

Amid all the noise that has followed the suicide by a young actor, it needs to be underlined emphatically that suicides are preventable and different stakeholders have a role to play in that.