Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday gave Rs 6,000 as special Covid-19 assistance to newspaper hawkers who took great risks to distribute newspapers at the doorsteps of readers when the pa...

Living in a place as busy as Moulali gives Gaurav Golani a sense of the deteriorating air quality of Kolkata. “I want the next civic board to treat air pollution with utmost importance,”s...

Acknowledging the important role that newspaper hawkers play in dissemination of information and news, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced a social security scheme for them.  The ...

This year, business was steady, said Das. He sold stuff worth Rs 8,000-10,000 almost every day, from Chaturthi to Navami. “Around a dozen women are employed at the production unit. A crippled b...

Across office-para, the cacophony made of the constant honking of cars and clamour of people was missing. The hawkers were few and far in between. Walking on the pavements, usually brimming with pedes...

Madan Sardar, 23, lives in Taldi, the second last station in the Sealdah-Canning suburban section. Till April, he was busy painting houses in Jadavpur and Baghajatin, working for a contractor. He got...

...

An environment activist hailed by many because of her efforts to protect Rabindra Sarobar was allegedly heckled and molested when she tried to stop a hawker from encroaching on a footpath outside the ...

Vegetable peels, fish scales and feathers from poultry lined a pavement opposite the Anandalok Hospital where over 25 stalls have been set up. A resident of EE Block, who boards buses from the bus st...

Traders in the New Market area who have been agitating since Wednesday against encroachment of roads and footpaths by hawkers alleged that they were denied a meeting with the municipal commissioner on...