In 2021, companies and governments announced new vaccine policies, requiring people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to attend office, dine out, shop at malls or attend gatherings. In the l...

Back on the road With summer already here, people in the United States of America can now enjoy travelling freely for the first time since the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions. According to resear...

“Like one with quartan fever’s chill so near.” Dante Alighieri wrote this about a malaria patient’s trepidation before the paroxysmal fevers. He himself died in the Roman marsh...

Authorities in at least a dozen Bengal districts have recently informed the state health department to stop supplying Covishield — a vaccine that aims to protect against the Covid-19 infection &...

Danish Siddiqui, the celebrated photojournalist who was killed last July while on assignment covering the war in Afghanistan, and three other Reuters photographers have won the Pulitzer Prize in featu...

A global vaccine development coalition has decided to fund an India-Australia-Switzerland  research consortium to create a novel so-called “variant-proof” coronavirus vaccine for broa...

Fair pay Sir — Folk art and craft are intricately linked to the history and culture of a region. However, they rarely get the respect they deserve. First, they are often kept out of the hallow...

It has a vast army dedicated to ensuring that the wrong message doesn’t get out. Yet, the Chinese government could not keep the video of a live person being zipped up and readied for the mortuar...

That the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a significant loss of learning among students on account of disruptions in schooling is now an established fact. But the gaps in learning are not even among socia...

India on Friday responded to a Sri Lankan hospital's call for urgent medical supplies by delivering a large consignment of important drugs with the help of an Indian Navy ship, the Indian High Com...