More than 100 coronavirus disease patients 30 years or younger have died in India, but over half of the country’s Covid-19 deaths have occurred among patients 60 years or older, the Union health min...

'God save me from drowning,' prays 28-year-old Sanjay Pal as he swims his way to his workplace across the river every morning in the absence of boat service amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown.Pal...

So the mighty Communist Party has finally admitted that the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the livelihoods of ordinary Chinese people. For weeks, the official media carried only positive re...

Cooperation between states and the Centre can be a deterrent against a pandemic. Sadly, this spirit of collaboration — the glue that keeps the Indian federal structure together — has been missing ...

Public transport will start to ply and shops will open from Tuesday, but places of worship will continue to remain closed in Jharkhand, indicating a cautious approach to opening up the state that seen...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? The Covid-19 crisis is a mirror held up to each nation. Some, like Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand, look very fair. Many have celebrated an u...

The notion of quality time finds different expressions under differing cultural conditions. An old-fashioned way of expressing it was the claim that families that eat together stay together. Earlier, ...

A migrant worker of Chakulia, East Singhbhum district, with travel history to Maharashtra, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 25.The yo...

I would have posted my black square to express solidarity with the protests against racism worldwide, but I was interrupted by a joke.It was sent on WhatsApp by a friend, an upper-caste person. It was...

The Covid-19 death toll in Jharkhand rose to eight on Tuesday after an elderly woman from Bokaro, suffering from severe neurological disorder, died during treatment at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sc...