Educational institutions will reopen in New Delhi in a graded manner from Monday as restrictions are scaled down in view of a shrinking epidemic. The much-reviled rule of wearing a mask while alone i...

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday cut short his mask-less door-to-door campaign in Deoband, not because of any intervention from the Election Commission but because the “crowd kept swell...

Footnote At a time when top politicians are caught lying about their educational qualifications, the Karnataka home minister, Araga Jnanendra, has admitted that he was a poor student. He confessed th...

The limit is now 10 people for door-to-door campaigns. An Election Commission official told this newspaper: “There are 300-odd cases of model code of conduct violations in Uttar Pradesh alone, ...

Stay safe, Kolkata! ...

According to Kaushik Basu, a clinical immunologist and associate professor at Calcutta Medical College, the best antidote for the time being is the oldest one — masks. “It is known from st...

The Supreme Court termed the rise in pollution an “emergency situation” ...

Masks work best when everyone in the room is wearing one. That’s because when an infected person wears a mask, a large percentage of their exhaled infectious particles are trapped, stopping vira...

The Jharkhand state council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Tuesday donated medical equipments worth several lakhs to the East Singhbhum district administration for combating Covid-19...