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Sep 21, 2020

Why is the government not keeping records of health workers who died of COVID-19?

On 15 September, the Union Health Minister Dr Harshvardhan said in the parliament, that they do not keep any records of health workers who died of COVID-19. We at Suno India spoke to the health workers- Surekha...

18 mins

Sep 14, 2020

Child marriages spike in India amid the pandemic

The United Nations Population Fund released a report in April this year titled “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender-based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage”...

35 mins

Sep 10, 2020

Centre launched KIRAN, a 24*7 mental health helpline for people; experts say helplines alone are not sufficient.

India’s first national mental health rehabilitation helpline was launched recently*, to provide mental health support in 13 languages. The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry launched it to enable better ac...

21 mins

Sep 07, 2020

India tops road accident deaths with 422 deaths per day

According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s report of 2019, 1.54 lakh people died and 4.39 lakh people were injured in the 4.3 lakh accidents that happened last year. India ranked 1st in the number of road...

18 mins

Aug 31, 2020

COVID-19: Home based workers hit hard, making INR 10 per day

Home-based workers are those who work at home, regardless of whether it is their default place of work. They’re predominantly the bottom of supply chains in garment industries, domestic work, packaging units, h...

22 mins

Aug 28, 2020

COVID-19 has devastating impact on India’s women and girls

The rapid spread of COVID19 and the sudden nationwide lockdown limiting the movement of 1.3 billion people disrupted the supply chain of essential hygiene products like sanitary pads, contraceptive pills etc an...

36 mins

Aug 26, 2020

CCMB’s role in COVID19 pandemic management

The confirmed COVID19 cases in India have touched 2.98 million as on date. We at Suno India have been looking at the various efforts being deployed for pandemic management in the country and presenting critical...

36 mins

Aug 25, 2020

By, for and of the community- How Community Radios are helping communities during COVID-19

A community radio is where people from the local community produce and broadcast their own programs and have their own radio station. In India, there are 289 community radios who through their unique programmin...

30 mins

Aug 10, 2020

New Consumer Protection Rules for E-Commerce

Indian Government recently announced the new Consumer Protection Rules of 2020 for all businesses, including e-commerce. More regulations and penalties have been introduced to ensure fair and accountable servic...

22 mins

Jul 24, 2020

Who will you save with the limited resources you have during the Pandemic?

Patients with severe covid-19 disease need hospital care, intensive care. Some of them will need to be put on a ventilator. According to an April 2020 report of the Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Pol...

46 mins