A Kalimpong resident has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court alleging non-compliance of various provisions of the Disaster Management Act and other government mandates by Dar...

The residents of 115 houses in the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex have been home-quarantined after an employee’s relative tested positive for the novel coronavirus. In a statement on Tuesday, Rashtrapat...

The coronavirus pandemic found governments in India and the world in varying degrees of unpreparedness. Given the circumstances, state governments and the Government of India reacted reasonably quickl...

Police on Friday said a social media post that claimed that 25 to 30 people with fever and cough died in their homes in the Taltala area of central Calcutta was fake.The post, which was circulated ove...

The late Jonathan Mann, the WHO administrator who pioneered the global campaign against AIDS in the 1980s, had envisioned a future where public health, human rights and ethics would be seen as complem...

Corporate covens have been buzzing in disbelief after Rajiv Bajaj decided to call out the Narendra Modi government’s month-long lockdown as a monumental blunder. Mr Bajaj is a well-known straight-ta...

At least 35 Bru refugees were booked under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, and Section 188 IPC for violating the lockdown.The North district administration of Tripura has registered a complaint aga...

A petition was moved in the Supreme Court by some activists, seeking a directive to the Centre and the state governments to ensure that workers adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic are paid wag...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the government to facilitate the return of all migrants to their native places within 15 days and asked the states to consider withdrawing cases registered by pol...

Since its birth in August 1947, the Indian nation has often passed through difficult times. Consider the suffering caused by the Partition of India; the famines and wars of the 1960s; Indira Gandhi’...