India on Monday logged 12,781 fresh COVID-19 cases that pushed its infection tally to 4,33,09,473, while the daily positivity rate went past 4 per cent after 130 days, according to Union health minist...

Four out of the five undergraduate science departments at Jadavpur University have informed the admissions committee of the science faculty that they want to screen students for undergraduate courses ...

The body of a 55-year-old man was found floating in a pond at Parnasree in southwest Kolkata’s Behala late on Friday. Police have identified the deceased as Anupam Roy Chowdhury. Residents of t...

After 21 years as a service agent at Air France, Karim Djeffal left his job during the Covid-19 pandemic to start his own job-coaching consultancy. “If this doesn’t work out, I won’...

Surrounded by classroom walls hung with colourful violins and music theory posters, Roshan Reddy counted to three. He raised his palm, a chorus of shiny horns and woodwinds hummed to life, and the fir...

King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for Use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Education recognises innovative approaches in teaching ...

When Ranjita Mondal talks about her journey from a one-room tin shack in the slum bordering the canal in Birati, near Calcutta’s Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, to running a hotel in ...

States and Union territories have been asked to submit "larger number" of samples for whole genome sequencing from districts and areas which have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases over a period...

India's COVID-19 tally increased to 4,32,83,793 on Saturday as 13,216 more people tested positive for the viral disease and the active caseload climbed to 68,108, according to Union health ministr...

The Trinamul Congress on Friday decided to conduct its marquee Martyrs’ Day event on July 21 offline this time — after a two-year hiatus caused by the Covid-19 pandemic — and ensure ...