The new normal post the Covid outbreak has hit commercial sex workers in Bengaluru, with most clients preferring to stay away from them fearing physical contact. But some tech-savvy sex workers have taken their trade online via videotelephony platforms and are accepting payments through e-wallets. Services are now being streamed online to retain clients. Scared, sexually and emotionally harassed and away from their families for nearly six months, nine south Indian women, all hired as bar dancers and promised 1 lakh for three months, have been pleading to be rescued from a hotel at Fujairah in UAE. An investigation found dozens of police reports, known here as FIRs, alleging sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic clerics teaching in madrassas or religious schools throughout Pakistan, where many of the country's poorest study. Police say the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg.