From showing tourists around historic sights to plucking tea leaves — that is the destruction Covid-19 has wrought among sections of China’s workforce. With tourists reluctant to risk trav...

Profession: Masseur Resident of: Amtala Works: Across blocks in Salt Lake and New Town Has life returned to pre-Covid days: Almost. I’d say things are 80 per cent back to normal. Everyone is ...

Schools have been closed and with them the school canteens, dealing a blow to those who made a livelihood of it. Some have tried home delivery of food and some have started makeshift stalls to tide o...

The Kali temple in Dakshineswar will remain shut on the morning of Mahalaya, October 6, to avoid congregations at the shrine of those who will gather at the three adjacent ghats to perform tarpan. Be...

In the new normal, hospitality courses will have to tailor themselves according to the changing travel habits of people. Safety and hygiene will be of utmost importance, several veteran teachers in th...

An official of Biman Bangladesh said they were also suggesting people who wanted to book return tickets next month to buy one-way tickets or wait till the new schedule was available for November. &ld...

Covid wreaked havoc across the globe but accelerated some technological changes that would otherwise have taken years to come, a group of business leaders said at a webinar on Saturday. “Covid-...

Police raided a fake call centre in New Alipore and arrested 22 people on Tuesday night. The accused used to call people in Australia posing as officials of e-commerce giant Amazon and trick them int...

The daily new Covid infection count in Bengal has ranged between 500 and 700 over the past few weeks.  A section of the state administration sees this — the count not spiralling despite mo...

Some organisers are hopeful though that the fear of a fresh round of infection would finally make way for overwhelming optimism and sponsors would gradually start loosening their purses. “We st...