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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

Unlocking India

Reopening essential; time for awareness campaigns

Industrial activity picking up pace in UP; no new tax proposal: Adityanath

UP government eyeing post-covid investments with companies looking to exit China

Reviving the farm economy

The return of migrant workers to their villages offers an opportunity to give agribusiness a leg-up

Trains to hospital queries: When calls go beyond Covid in this control room

From March 25, when the control centre got formalised to May 28, as many as 66,563 calls have been received here, and by end of this month the numbers could well surpass 70,000.

India on the brink of reaching grim milestone of 5,000 Covid-19 deaths

It began as a rich man's disease that came to India on the plane and then ended up uprooting the poor as well.

In pictures: What daily life during coronavirus pandemic looks like

A hospital honours a patient and chief minister visits people in quarantine at their homes.

Railways running 'Corona Express' in name of Shramik trains, says Mamata

The Chief Minister said that a decision has been taken to increase the state government's workforce capacity

Best of BS Opinion: Basic minimum income to farmers, lockdown 4.0, and more

Here is a summary of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Lessons from the lockdown

The corona pandemic of 2020 will join cataclysms such as killer floods, communal bloodbaths, or a mass migration rising to Partition levels

Vinod Kapri filmed migrants who cycled from Delhi to their Bihar village

His docuseries puts India's migrant debacle into sharp focus, writes Nikita Puri

Shramik trains: Rlys appeal to people with comorbidities to avoid travel

At least nine passengers were reported dead on May 27 over a span of 48 hours on board the migrant trains, with the railways stating that all of them had health conditions.

After flak over Shramik, Rlys says only 71 out of 3,840 trains diverted

Over the past few days, at least nine people lost their lives in different Shramik trains, for which the reasons were allegedly lack of supply of food and water

When will Krishna get her old life back?

Her son and daughter who both have jobs in small businesses, had found themselves home without pay during the lockdown