A mason in East Midnapore’s Egra, reduced to poverty by the Covid-induced lockdown, agreed to get his 15-year-old daughter married off, but he was in for a surprise. His daughter, a Madhyamik e...

A sacked hotel clerk jumped before a train in Lakhimpur Kheri town on Friday, leaving behind a purported suicide note that blamed the repeated extensions of the lockdown for his joblessness.Bhanu Prak...

To begin with, the Quarantine Student-Youth Network (QSYN) started distributing ration kits its to the not-so-privileged families in different pockets of Calcutta. This was within a few days of the lo...

A roti-machine that makes 1,000 pieces of the flat-bread every hour has ensured that the needy here do not go hungry during the COVID-19-induced lockdown, officials said.Installed at a community kitch...

The resolve of the Congress to display restraint and desist from attacking the Narendra Modi government during the pandemic crisis appears to have waned as its “constructive” suggestions on managi...

The Bengal government pays them a monthly allowance to ease the pangs of abject poverty. Now, a group of chhau dancers in Purulia have pooled in money from the same dole to contribute Rs 10,100 to the...

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Mohammad Hussain Ansari, 38, a day labourer in Bihar’s Arwal district, was at his wit’s end on April 7. His younger children were crying from hunger while their elder siblings roamed the village l...

Around 400 million informal-sector workers in India are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the UN’s labour agency has warned, prompting cal...

Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass on Tuesday asked the party’s all elected representatives to provide food to poor families not covered by the government’s subsidised food schemes during the ...