Daily Brief: Are shelters for the homeless in Delhi being demolished for G20?Words0Time to read3 minsPublished15 Mar, 2023 Are shelters for the homeless in Delhi being demolished for G20? Eight night shelters on the Yamuna bank were demolished last week. Activists say the poor are being removed to spruce up the city for the coming G20 summit. scroll.in How the medical system gaslights women who have endometriosis The disease causes excruciating pain, and can seriously harm organs. Yet doctors hesitate to treat it, and insurance companies don’t cover it. scroll.in Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse raises tough questions for the US government, financial institutions Why did the technology-startup finding bank have so many uninsured deposits. How was such a crisis not foreseen, especially after the 2008 recession? scroll.in Kochi’s garbage fire may have been doused, but its ill effects will be felt for a while It took 23 fire engines, 32 excavators and bulldozers, 10 high pressure pumps, four helicopters and over 200 firemen to put out the fire after 11 days. scroll.in How Adivasis in an MP village are being dispossessed: First for ‘development’, now ‘afforestation’ After losing their homes to a reservoir, communities in Hoshangabad are being barred from large parts of forest land taken over for environmental plantations. scroll.in The Indian connection to Oscar-winner ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ – Mumbai’s Aashish D’Mello He was one of two assistant editors on Daniels’s acclaimed genre-bending movie. scroll.in History of China: What life was like during the Mongol Yuan dynasty rule established by Khublai Khan An excerpt from ‘The Shortest History of China’, by Linda Jaivin. scroll.in Watch: Lakshya Sen shows lightning-quick reflexes during his win over Chou Tien Chen at All England Sen overcame the fifth seed in the opening round. scroll.in
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