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Covid-19 updates: India overtakes Italy's caseload, all you need to know

Wuhan, the first epicentre of the pandemic, the city discharged the last of three coronavirus patients on Friday

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's limited fiscal cushion, doing-business concerns

From why this year's budgeted net tax revenue for the Centre is impossible to achieve to how Indians are blase about class-driven brutality, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces

SC mulls giving 15 days to Centre, states to transport all migrant workers

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said state governments can tell as to how many more migrant workers need to be shifted and how many trains are required for that purpose

The Covid-19 deniers

Social stigma associated with Covid-19 has led to people denying that they, or their family members, have it - and this will make the task of containing the pandemic much harder.

The power of the cause: Meet the trio behind a start-up to feed migrants

KVN Foundation, the start-up which was conceived when the lockdown began on March 25, has produced 4.5 million free meals for migrants and day labourers since then

Sonu Sood sponsors another flight for migrant workers; now to Dehradun

The actor also said he was looking forward to more such flights in the near future

In pictures: Migrants head home, mosques gear up for Unlock 1.0 and more

The home ministry had last week said ''Unlock-1'' will be initiated in the country from June 8 under which the nationwide lockdown, will be relaxed to a great extent

Unemployment rate falls to 5.8% in 2018-19 from over a four-decade high

The unemployment rate in 2017-18 had risen to 6.1%, compared to 2.2% in 2011-12, according to the results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey released by the National Statistical Office.

The indignity of labour laws

Suspending the entire labour law as some states have tried is not sustainable

Going back to basics: Make labour laws simple, protect workers' rights

It's not just the inability to downsize that constrains it but opaque hiring practices and the illogic of size-based legal thresholds that encourage companies to stay small

UP provides cash support of Rs 1,000 each to more than 3.3 mn poor people

This includes 1.79 million construction labourers, 881,000 urban labourers and 659,000 destitute in the rural areas of the state

Untested Covid control

Will the strategy of society instead of the State controlling the virus be tested by rising deaths?

India coronavirus dispatch: By how much can distancing, masks lower spread?

From rebuilding trust in public transport, to how face masks can help contain virus, and how construction firms got away with not paying during lockdown - read these and more in today's India dispatch

World coronavirus dispatch: Young adults, viral TikToks & uncertain future

From KKR's spending spree amid pandemic, to the inside story of why EY quit audit role at a ventilator maker paid in millions by UK govt - read these and more in today's world dispatch

Coronavirus LIVE: India cases near 200,000; global tally over 6.3 million

Lockdown 5.0 update: Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh have extended lockdown till June 30. Catch coronavirus, lockdown updates and other related stories here

Policymakers played catch-up, lacked effective strategy: Covid task force

The senior member also said that implementation of the lockdown, meant to contain the spread, was treated more as a law and order issue than a public health one

21 million jobs added in May

While the main labour market metrics indicate an improvement in May compared to April, the labour market conditions still remain much weaker than they were before the lockdown

Unlock 1.0: UP plans revival of sick units to create jobs for migrants

3 million migrant workers have returned to UP after lockdown

Best of BS Opinion: Slowing down coronavirus, acknowledging migrant workers

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day.

Migrants: Future of work and production

It is also important to note that their pain has not gone unnoticed - trains have been started to bring migrants back home