About 56 per cent of Indian children lack access to smart phones, key to online schooling which has become the norm during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, a survey has found.The study, titled “Sce...

Saroj Hansdah, a housewife, is busy making masks in Janumdih village of East Singhbhum as a pile of grass mats made earlier lies unsold in a corner with no sales in the past two months.Social organisa...

As many as 73 NGOs are providing relief to the poor, stranded and marginalised families across the city with logistical backing from the Kamrup (metro) administration but there has been no direct gove...

Want to be a good Samaritan and get caricatured for it? A Barpeta-based NGO, Shubham, has launched a unique initiative through which it encourages people to donate for the poor who are struggling to g...

More than 30 Kashmiri traders are stuck at Maheshtala on the city’s western outskirts, waiting to return home at the first chance after the lockdown is lifted.Their customers, mostly into stitching ...

A sex worker in her early 20s is stuck in the city while her two-year-old daughter is in South 24-Parganas with her grandmother.The woman hasn’t been able to go home and meet her daughter for three ...

Frontline conservancy workers in the city, who are risking their lives while keeping clean the houses of those staying safe at home to contain the spread of coronavirus, are hoping for some protective...

Many such patients in Calcutta and on the outskirts have been finding it difficult to travel to clinics run by Calcutta Rescue, an NGO that provides free healthcare and medicine to those who cannot af...

Various social organisations, NGOs, churches, individuals and political leaders are coming forward and contributing through various donations and rendering their services to help the poor in various l...

Students and animal welfare organisations are running campaigns here to provide food and water to stray animals during the lockdown period.Touch of Humanity, an NGO led by Cotton University student Hi...