India

The lockdown abruptly announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thrown out of school at least one 10-year-old girl who dreamed to become a doctor and two teenage brothers of whom one aspired to be...

The Congress on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government appeared to be at war with the people of India in the first year of its second term, inflicting wounds instead of healing them.“It is somew...

The Union health ministry has decided to provide peritoneal dialysis, a home-based alternative to haemodialysis that typically requires thrice weekly hospital visits, to patients with end-stage kidney...

Stray cattle brought to a cow shelter in Goa are not eating grass because they have turned non-vegetarian, a minister in the state government has said. Michael Lobo, minister for science and technolog...

India has conveyed to Pakistan its readiness to sign the Kartarpur Corridor Agreement on Wednesday despite Islamabad’s insistence on charging a $20 fee on every pilgrim using the newly constructed f...

Passengers have complained that escalators at Bolpur station often remain “switched off” during rush hours, causing severe inconvenience to the elderly and daily commuters.A group of senior citize...

Over 200 elderly residents of Naihati have submitted a petition requesting the administration to ban high-decibel audio systems and loud firecrackers during Kali Puja this weekend.The signatories, who...

The detection of 32 Covid cases at one go in Cooch Behar has prompted the district administration to draw up plans to prevent further spread of the pandemic.Till Thursday, Cooch Behar had been the onl...

The police on Monday attached the property of priest-activist Father Stan Swamy at his Namkum home, as he had not appeared in court over a case concerning a Facebook post last year that upheld the dem...

Darjeeling MP Raju Bista of the BJP has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “the urgent need to start move Covid testing laboratories” in north Bengal.Bista arrived in his constituency on t...