Braving coronavirus risks, young Indian volunteers tend to the sick and the dead
6 hours ago Akshay Mandlik along with other volunteers carry the body of a person, who died from coronavirus for burial at a cemetery in Bengaluru, on Tuesday. Reuters
Every day after he wraps up the online classes he teaches at a Bengaluru college, Akshay Mandlik puts on his mask, gloves and overalls and heads out to help bury the COVID dead.
The 37-year-old professor of social work is one of many citizen volunteers across India who have stepped up to help families affected by the country s devastating second wave, often risking their own personal safety.
Covid: Informal groups of volunteers step up as India battles the pandemic
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Mumbai: Cop sustains fracture after biker dashes into him at nakabandi in Kherwadi
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Mumbai: A 35-year-old police constable attached to Kherwadi Police station was allegedly hit by a speeding biker at a nakabandi checkpoint in the early hours of Friday. The constable Shankar Magar, who sustained a fracture to his right leg, near the knee, was allegedly denied admission in Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai Central as he did not have an RT-PCR test and after a short struggle, he finally was admitted at SL Raheja Hospital in Mahim, where he is undergoing treatment.
According to police, the incident occurred around 3.30am, when Magar was on night duty at a nakabandi point near Kherwadi on the Western Express Highway. The accused biker, an 18-year-old youth Sahil Shaikh, was on his way to Mahim, failed to control his speed despite applying brakes and dashed into Magar, injuring his right leg. While the teen was arrested immediately and booked under relevant sections of the Indian Pe
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