When theatres and auditoriums shut shop in April this year for the second time since 2020 due to the pandemic, it was a huge blow to an already suffering theatre community. They had just re-opened a couple of months ago after the first wave. Starved of live performances, theatre-lovers had slowly started trooping in, but the second wave struck.
From debt to depression, the pandemic has hit India’s sex workers hard
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July 03, 2021 12:16 IST
Since the pandemic broke, India’s roughly nine lakh female sex workers are out of work, steeped in debt, and at risk from the virus
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A sex worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Wadia Hospital in Mumbai.
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Since the pandemic broke, India’s roughly nine lakh female sex workers are out of work, steeped in debt, and at risk from the virus
Sunita lives with her husband and son in a tiny room in a crowded Mumbai slum. Tin sheets make up the walls. A thin bedsheet, tightly tied across the room, acts as a partition between the kitchen and the rest of the house. Outside, a few yards away, is a common bathroom, which more than 200 people in the slum use. “Living here makes me anonymous. Mostly, I like that,” she says. Sunita has never invited her clients home.
BMC informed Bombay high court that it would not act on its April 27 notice to demolish certain structures.
MUMBAI: The Mumbai civic body informed Bombay high court that it would not act on its April 27 notice to demolish certain structures meant for completion of work on Hancock flyover, with out prior permission of the court.
The assurance was given after petitions filed by Sangram Singh and several others challenging the demolition notice issued more than 10 days after a full bench order of the HC in a suo motu PUblic Interest Litigation (PIL) directing all demolition orders to be kept in abeyance till May 7 and with the order being further extended till June 30.
Mumbai: After being allegedly manhandled by former legislator, BMC officer Makrand Dagadkhair seeks police protection
A day after registering an FIR against former Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Yusuf Abrahani for allegedly assaulting him, Makrand Dagadkhair, BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) assistant municipal commissioner (E ward) has now sought police protection, citing that he fears for his own and his family s safety.
Dagadkhair alleged that Abrahani threatened him and his colleagues to break into the E ward office with a mob of 200 people and shut the office. According to Dagadkhair, Abrahani allegedly manhandled him, hereafter, objecting to the stop work notices issued at Kamathipura in central Mumbai on Thursday. Following the incident, an FIR was registered against him.