Lockdown measures cannot be violated in containment zones, mayor Firhad Hakim told councillors in a meeting on Monday.Councillors should also follow distancing norms and desist from distributing relie...

Schools in the city are preparing for changes that they will have to implement to maintain social distancing whenever the government allows them to resume classes on campus.Reducing the strength of a ...

A frontal tribal outfit that organises the annual Bishu Shikar, the annual tribal hunting festival, at Dalma hills, has promised to abide by the lockdown to curb the spreading of the novel coronavirus...

Ask Anshu Kumar Sinha, a teenaged schoolboy from Palamau, what he understands by social distancing or its Hindi translation “samajik doori”, and he looks befuddled. His friend, at Semar Tarn in Pa...

Buyers jostling for space at a makeshift vegetable market made a mockery of social distancing at Jai Prakash Udyan at Adityapur in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district on Sunday.Vendors, who had...

The lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the vegetable markets in the city that are devoid of buyers despite being well-stocked, and an MLA said farmers have been badly hit by the drop in...

Everything in my American life is coming to a standstill. Colleagues aren’t travelling. Conferences and meetings have been cancelled. University classes are moving online as professors scramble to l...

The transport department has decided to run buses on a few routes between 8am and 8pm for people engaged in emergency work.These buses will ply on these routes — Howrah station to Kamalgazi, Esplana...

Earlier this month, Mumbai ushered in Holi in a peculiar way. Coronasur — a symbolic effigy of Covid-19 which, the WHO says with good reason, is now a global health emergency — was consigned to th...

A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogey of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away.Albert Camus, La peste (The Plague)Publis...