Despite the COVID spike in Kashmir there has been no ban on tourist arrivals. However, all gardens and parks in Srinagar and elsewhere have been closed. Too late, perhaps?
A year on, COVID-19 cases are showing an alarming spike across cities. What do the numbers say? How are cities coping? Will vaccines check the spread, or is another lockdown inevitable?
The COVID lockdown, restrictions on public gatherings, and even on the kind of idols that may be worshipped have cast a shadow over Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations this year. Idol-makers are among the worst hit.
The lockdown pushed many members of the Pardhi community in Bhopal to beg for survival. Now, as they try to rebuild their lives post lockdown, there is still little hope.
The lockdown period helped researchers understand the effects of human-generated emissions; this could tell policy-makers how they may achieve what the NCAP has targetted in the coming four years.
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.
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.
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.
After last years floods, a high level committee ordered construction of 17 new sump houses, but this has remained on paper. Work to make existing sump houses functional has also not taken off.
Even after the lockdown is lifted, how many people will go out and eat in restaurants? How many will send their children to the park with other kids? A worried resident writes.
Citizens have paused their frenetic daily lives owing to the nationwide lockdown. This has created a new reality for parents and kids, as this town shows.
Residents of Trivandrum took the relaxations as a nod to get back to how it was before the corona outbreak and caused traffic bottlenecks at different parts of the city on April 20. In fact, the capital city is a hot spot though Thiruvananthapuram district as a whole is categorised as Orange zone.
A group of 21 Kashmiri traders who came to Chandigarh in winter, as they have been doing for decades, are now stuck there because of the lockdown, and have found unconditional support from the local population.
With hotspots and containment zones on the rise across the country, how Bhilwara, the first such hotspot, handled the situation deserves to be highlighted.
