Sir — The reasons provided by the Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, for the slump in sales in the automobile industry elicited a lot of laughter (“Serious problem”, Sept 13). Sitharama...

Over 200 teachers started their fast-unto-death near Bapu Vatika in Morabadi here on Thursday, even as the nation celebrated Teachers’ Day to mark the birth anniversary of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, ...

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Large proportions of farm, daily wage and industrial workers sampled across India have struggled for food under the nationwide lockdown despite government assurances of supplies, a social media platfo...

The world’s largest lockdown without a readily available cushion appears to have begun to affect the poorest of the poor.As many of the non-government organisations and other social and religious gr...

Q I feel my husband drinks too much, but he feels it is “all under control”.Your husband is drinking too much if:He craves a drink and then finds excuses to have a fewHe is drinking more than he u...

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader Akhil Gogoi will stage an indefinite hunger strike inside Central Jail Guwahati from March 1 to add muscle to the ongoing protests against the Citizenship Am...

Students of Aligarh Muslim University have started a relay hunger strike against the new citizenship matrix and also to mount pressure on the vice-chancellor and registrar to step down amid continuing...

An Assam University, Silchar, student on Saturday tried to slash her wrist during a hunger strike over two-year rustication and FIR against research scholar of ecology and environment sciences departm...

Opposition members, including those from the Congress and JVM, grilled the government in the Assembly on Monday on poor health indices and sought details on steps taken to prevent hunger deaths.“Jha...