Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh are failing to meet their own safety guidelines set up to protect workers from the coronavirus as factories reopen, union leaders have warned. ( read original story ...)
Ireland: Home games against New Zealand and Pakistan called off because of Covid-19 restrictions
Ireland announce the postponement of home matches against New Zealand and Pakistan because of the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Analysis: Ertugrul and the lure of Turkish dramas in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the show's popularity reveals reverence for the Ottoman Empire and a hankering for a glorious Muslim past. ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Pakistan’s deficit and poverty rate to soar due to coronavirus
Pakistan's fiscal deficit will be significantly worse than projected this fiscal year, with the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic pushing millions into unemployment and poverty, according to ... ( read original story ...)
India’s ‘Maximum City’ Engulfed by Coronavirus
Overflowing hospitals. Exhausted cops. Desperate slums. Here are images from Mumbai as the coronavirus upends the metropolis. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus lockdown: India announces free food for fleeing migrants
India will provide free food to migrants for two months as part of a $266bn (£216bn) economic plan to combat the effect of the Covid-19 lockdown. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said grain ... ( read original story ...)
‘I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!’: the tale of India’s lost techno pioneers
In the 1960s, a group of Indian students accidentally invented minimal techno – and hoped their synths could cure disease. A new documentary unearths their story ... ( read original story ...)
India to provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers
India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs program, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ... ( read original story ...)
India Minister Pushes Conspiracy Theory Coronavirus Was Created in a Lab: ‘This is Not a Natural Virus’
This is unexpected because this a virus from a laboratory, this is not a natural virus." Modi and his cabinet have been largely quiet on the origins and course of coronavirus, instead focusing on ... ( read original story ...)
How 400,000 Masks Were Shipped From China to a U.S. Nursing Home
A makeshift supply chain connecting a nursing-home owner with a friend of a friend who normally imports clocks, shows how chaotic the market for protective gear has become. ( read original story ...)