Covid health cover claims surge: Insurance companies received 28 lakh claims for Rs 36,003 crore in the last 22 months from people affected by the coronavirus

Unemployment and indebtedness: Over 25,000 Indians ended lives due to unemployment, indebtedness in 2018-2020, government tells Parliament

Coal shortage crisis escalates again: A complex coal demand-supply mismatch is emerging in the country with both power generation and the non-power sector (manufacturing units) claiming that the supply is below optimum levels

Rural sales slowdown: FMCG, or Fast-moving consumer good companies have seen demand, especially from rural areas, take a hit thereby pulling down their sales volumes; FMCG sales are considered an indicator of the state of the economy

Some Maoists are made: In Jharkhand’s Gomia block, men and women find themselves falsely accused of being Maoists, called to police stations and threatened, arrested in fake cases, harassed to identify fellow villagers as Naxals