India’s March factory activity growth at four-month low amid coronavirus spread

India's March factory activity growth at four-month low amid coronavirus spread

By Ritu, Capital Sands India’s manufacturing activity expanded at its slowest pace in four months in March and is likely to get worse as demand and output take a hit from the coronavirus outbreak, putting a severe dent in business optimism, a private survey found. A 21-day nationwide lockdown, which started on March 25 in […]

“Some of us will die”: India’s homeless stranded by coronavirus lockdown

By Administrator_India Capital Sands In a densely packed neighborhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van. Only a handful of the people in the crowd wore masks. There were no hand sanitizers or washbasins in sight […]