Ravik Bhattacharya

“There is a lockdown, So, there is no more work. Suddenly the trains also stopped. So, I have to somehow reach my home in Bihar.”

The seven youths, who work in Chennai and returned to Bhangdi village on March 24, had been living on the branches of the tree after doctors asked them to stay in home quarantine.

At the Beleghata office, the team’s workspace includes a small room next to the lab with a round table at the centre surrounded by computers, tabulation sheets, and piles of papers and reports.

HMI, one of the premier mountaineering institutes in the world, located in Darjeeling has come up with an initiative called “HMI, 21 Days Big Boss Indoor Challenge- Fight Against COVID-19” to motivate all to stay indoors.

These seven youths, all of them migrant workers, have been living on the tree ever since they returned from Chennai at a time when COVID-19 infections in the country are on the rise.

The Indian Express reached out to several workers in these two states who—caught unprepared by the announcement of a 21-day lockdown for “fighting some disease”—are looking for a way out, and finding none.

A group of friends including professors, PhD scholars and filmmakers  have set up the web-based community radio station to help people fight lockdown anxieties. The aim is to bring people together who are stuck at home.

In Kolkata, a 30-year old woman, who is part of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) team which tests samples for coronavirus, was told by her landlord in South Kolkata to leave the place.

The students said that their medical colleges had shut down due to the coronavirus scare and that they were told to leave the hostels and return home.

An official in Ranchi said about 3,000-4,000 people reached the city on an average every day over the past week on the Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express.

Health department authorities are now tracking and putting in quarantine all the people he met in the two days that he moved about Kolkata.

A 21-year-old undergraduate student from Darjeeling allegedly faced social discrimination when people did not sit near him on a crowded bus last Saturday.

According to one crew member, a resident of West Bengal, they will be flown to Delhi by a special flight by 5 am Thursday and quarantined for 14 more days.

Drones are being used and forest guards mounted on trained elephants have been patrolling the jungle to check for sick or dead animals.

Asgar, who worked as a carpenter in Guwahati since the 1980s, was deemed a foreigner by the state's Foreigners' Tribunal and sent to Goalpara detention camp under the NRC on July 14, 2017.

The 30-year-old, who hails from Hatipa village in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, is among 200 Indian crew members on board the ship, Diamond Princess, which has 61 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus.

Coronavirus scare: The Japanese government said Friday that 61 people on board the ship, with more than 3,700 passengers, had tested positive, and an additional 41 were found to have contracted the virus.

The programme aims to empower women in rural India by teaching them how to use Internet in their daily lives. Google claims it has benefited over 30 million women across 20 states so far.

According to police, the club had organised a fair in Duttapukur where Islam had put up a stall. He was allegedly beaten up by members of the club after he had a fight with a woman buyer Tuesday. The woman had alleged that Islam assaulted her.