i was born in what was then called bombay india in june 1970 that's to say exactly age weeks to the day before the end of the british empire. my father used to told this joke which i think he told slightly too many times. about how i was born an 8 weeks later the british. in a way it's a bit weird were easy to see it will be interesting it was i remember my childhood as being very happy. i came from a non observant muslim family you know that religions really weren't a big issue you know and nor was nationality so in the little neighborhood where we lived there were i would my childhood friends were of every possible religion you know they were hindu muslim seek christian. and all of that seemed completely normal. and that sense of it of everybody else is the culture being available to us it was one of the great things about growing up that. like many children i was told bedtime stories by my parents my father would tell us. i mean the east indian equivalent of fairy tales the arabian nights stories and i would actually when you read the 1001 nights you realize that it's not at all a ch

of the sand mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction be the profits in each bottle fed the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than $8000.00 dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended

bombay bicycle club have cancelled their gigs, so melanie kott will not be running her merchandise stall losing work. we don't get paid if a gig doesn't happen. people are really struggling? absolutely. everyone from top to bottom is losing out. the music goes away, everything just disappears. with glastonbury gone and other festivals following, those who normally work at them are having to be creative to find employment. in my experience, there's a lot of logistics so delivery drivers for grocery companies, supermarkets, would be ideal, actually, but i quite like my fitness so i'm considering going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroo. theatres are also shut around the country, from london's shaftesbury avenue to small independent venues. hope mill theatre in manchester was set up 4.5 years ago on a £10,000 bank loan. their musicals have won awards and transferred to london but the success story could be about to end. how worried are you? oh, it's been, um, it's tough, it's really tough. it's our livelihood, it's all we know now and we certainly have not slept at all.

bashers nationwide the government has bad all public gatherings the number of dead job to 463 of bombay for just a body has more of a supermarket in the bardo above the literally according to nudity particularly only 3 customers can and dine so if i stay inside betty kelly i'd lock the entrance because we must keep away from each other i mean one metre from each other he's the minimum security distance so whatever it will be harder we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay when we need to acknowledge from each other and then you know everything if closed by secretly their bodies each side. meanwhile the european commission says all of its 27 member states have confirmed credit virus cases it's called aggressive efforts to contain the virus especially in countries where there are few patients. and china has announced the closure all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients and president xi jinping is the epicenter for the 1st times as the operate was discovered in december the number of new reported infections in china continues to slow and turkey and ru

to start with india where as elizabeth was saying the lockdowns are having a massive effect at the bombay sensex that's one of the main stock indexes had to activate the circuit breaker as talks plunged 10 percent to trading stocks for 45 minutes before it started again the other market performing very badly with heavy losses as a strangely as a s. x. that has sustaining 5 weeks of losses now it's also taken another head dropping nearly 6 percent now i believe on the news that the government is not only going to lock down its borders but also going to try and limit businesses closed on pubs restaurants and to try and limit the domestic travel hong kong to yuri seeing the markets really taking a pummeling here down 5 percent this mainly on the news that the hong kong financial secretary's call the economy in a dire situation and said the worst is yet to come the city is facing a new wave of coronavirus infection to the surge not even seen at the beginning of the outbreak china meanwhile yes markets have dropped their not as much perhaps as the rest of the region down 2 percent for the shan

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i was in bombay in a hospital before and after the terrorist attack there.ng to elmhurst required a different kind of risk calculation. i stood outside taking precautions to be seven to eight felt away from people in line. i had a mask on. i took their phone numbers. i spoke to them briefly outside and i called them later to do a more in-depth interview. and then i stood across the street and i watched the line. i watched people in line for some time. >> and the -- your reporting is just so extraordinary from the scene. it is a grim situation. you were there to report the 13 deaths within one 24-hour period, which was the record high at that point and what does the future look like at elmhurst hospital and other new york city hospitals? >> the story that you're referring to was a team effort by several of my colleagues. i was only one member of that team. i certainly did not go inside the hospital. to do that would be not only to take a risk but it would be to get in the way of people doing their jobs inside. but my colleagues and i spoke to several people i

a friend of and i'm devastateded to hear abt his papassing, but i am told hee had a huge party in bombayier thisis mononth. if they had d shut down the sort of big gatherings and so on, two to three weeks ago, it would have served in a norma's purpose but they didn't. so this lockdown has come as a huge surprise. i family back in calcutta, they aree completely panicked because they did not have time to go out and buy food or anything. about my talking family. employment is in the formal sector and those people are completely devastated. you saw the picture of people being beaten by the police. workers areormal now out on the streets. they lived on the streets anyway. they have no way to get back to their homes, which are hundreds of miles away. they are just stuck on the street. yesterday i saw horrifying video of a young boy being beaten by the police. he was just out on the street because he had nowhere to go. you see these pictures of workers carrying their children on their head, trying to walk back hundreds of miles to theirr families. situation.t a shocking nermeen: amitav ghosh, w

world have massive population density and sometimes they overlap, think about a city like delhi or bombaywe have to provide tremendous support to the scientists and public health officials in places that are still developing health infrastructure. like africa. i do think that the capacity to detect cases is improved dramatically it's not anywhere near where it could be. >> also it brings up the larger point even in the united states, because we don't have testing widespread yet we don't know the scope of this. >> we don't. but we should point out that in nigeria, there has been a case confirmed of coronavirus and they did an amazing job with ebola back in 2014. there was a patient who showed up in lagos at the airport, collapsed in the airport terminal, many health care workers subsequently got infected and they were able to contain that. i've talked to my colleagues and they say they want increased testing as well like so many places do. they feel like they have the capacity and the experience to be able to control this. there are certain places around the world that just have a good inf

i grew up in bombay, india, moved to the sf in 1989, about 30 years ago, lived in six different neighborhoods across the city. i've worked in tech industry for 16 areas. i opened my first location in 2005. my second location was on filmore street in 2008 and i chose to open a restaurant as a fast, casual concept and i opened commissary. i was in the golden gate association with laurie and legislation kept coming in, which drove a lot of the decisions i made six, seven years ago. please bear with me,fy seem long-winded here. i'm raising two daughters here who attend school here. i consider myself fairly liberal. please allow me to provide background for small businesses because i think it drives some of the decisions hopefully you guys will make. as you know, small businesses are struggling in san francisco and closing down at an alarming rate. i closed the valencia the end of last year. they include high commercial rents, labor shortages, inadequate transport transportat to work and the economic pressures for venture capital food tech company, approaching workers that lead to shortages. press

bombay bicycle club have cancelled their gigs so melanie nott will not be running her merchandise stallk. we don't get paid if a gig doesn't happen. people really struggling? absolutely. everyone from top to bottom is losing out. the music goes away and everyone —— everything just disappears. with glastonbury gone another festivals following, those normally work at them having to be creative to find employment. in my experience, there's a lot of logistics so delivery drivers for grocery companies, supermarkets, would be ideal, actually but i quite like my fitness so i'm considering going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroo. going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroom going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroo. it is also shot around the country from london's shaftesbury avenue to small independent venues. hope mill theatre in manchester was set up 4.5 yea rs theatre in manchester was set up 4.5 years ago on a £10,000 bank loan. their musicals have won awards and transferred to london but the success story could be about to end. how