A migrant worker who had walked more than 100km from Bangalore to his village in Andhra Pradesh dropped dead of exhaustion just yards from his home on Wednesday night.Hari Prasad, 26, who did odd jobs...

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. The heavy violet-black powder of Mellish’s Own Invincible Fumigatory that smoked like a volcano, sending up fat, greasy wreaths of copper-coloured smok...

The Congress on May Day accused the Narendra Modi government of “mercilessly abandoning” millions of migrant workers by not arranging for their shelter, food and transport while focusing its time ...

Human beings probably best reveal themselves in how they regard fellow humans. In pronouncing upon the other, by word or by deed, they often pronounce upon themselves. A fortnight before I watched the...

The government extended the nationwide lockdown for another two weeks with effect from May 4 to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic .The extension guideline permitted considerable relaxatio...

The stranded foreign recruits of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal will finally leave for their home next Tuesday, a journey that will also involve a long bus ride to Delhi from the eastern metropolis befor...

Ahead of the end of the extended lockdown, the Union health ministry has listed 130 districts in the country in red zone, 284 in orange zone and 319 in green zone on the basis of incidence of cases of...

Panic sets in at healthcare facilities every time a patient admitted for some other disease tests positive for Covid-19.The Union health ministry’s guidelines on what to do are clear, though.The gui...

Multiple states on Thursday asked the Centre to run special trains to ferry the lakhs of migrants back home after the Union government allowed their conditional travel and set up a logistics challenge...

Reliance Industries’ chief Mukesh Ambani has agreed to forgo all his remuneration, while RIL’s board of directors, including executive directors, executive committee members and senior leaders, wi...