Staring at a requirement of at least 1,200 critical-care beds in the city in the next dozen days, the BMC is racing against time to ramp up its strength in the tertiary and peripheral hospitals. From the current count of nearly 500 ICU and 3,000 oxygen-support beds, the plan is to increase the numbers to between 4,700 and 5,000.

The proposal to allow free travel by ST buses was cleared by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday. When asked about the delay, transport minister Anil Parab said, "There were some concerns raised by districts in green zone about outbound migrants from red zone areas.

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With daily-wage earners now rushing back to their villages in special trains, there’s consternation in business circles about a manpower crunch. Assurances of continued salary till work begins in right earnest haven’t kept the migrants back, according to traders. Normally, the migrant population returns to the villages for the harvest period in late summer and comes back soon after, but this year, traumatised by the pandemic standstill, they are likely to think twice before returning to the cities.

If you haven’t, you should immediately read Jeremy’s post titled A responsive mind. Not because he says some incredibly kind things about yours truly, but, well, of bits like this:

That’s the thing about responsive web design: you can’t just think of it as a sprinkle of pixie dust that can be applied to any site. It requires the right mindset. It requires that sites be built on solid foundations of best practice. If those foundations are in place—a flexible layout, flexible images, optimised performance—then responsive web design can work its magic.

There are so many wonderful, quotable points that I’m doing Jeremy a disservice by even excerpting that one. If you’d like to understand why a responsive approach would be right for your project (or, perhaps as importantly, why it might not), I urge you to read the whole thing.