Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* With the workfrom-home (WFH) feature set to become the new normal, the realty sector has to brace itself for disruption in two areas – the office space, with fewer work areas, and the residential segment, where new dedicated workspaces need to be carved out, says Vishal Garg, a professor and Head of the Center for IT in Building Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) and Milind Mantravadi, an alumnus of the institute.
Sharing insights on the ‘new normal’, they said that to facilitate a seamless experience of working from home, the inclusion of a dedicated area at home is necessary.
* Update at 9.29am | Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,568 in India; cases climb to 46,433: Union health ministry
*Telangana government decided late on Monday evening to send migrant workers back to their home states.
*Telangana government has asked the South Central Railway (SCR) to run 40 special trains daily for a week from Tuesday. Telangana government will be paying the Railways for running the trains for the time being.
*The special trains will be run from various places such as Hyderabad, Khammam, Damarcherla and Ramagundam to Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other states,” chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced.
*Construction work picks up pace with 30% workers reporting to duty in Hyderabad
*On the orders of Telangana government, police of all three city commissionerates on Monday started enumerating migrant workers to send those wish to go home in special trains.