A woman labourer watches television inside her house at the compound of a factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand January 23, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
"I don't know if I
BY PUJA GUPTA
New Delhi, April 22 (IANSlife) Governments across the world have sealed international borders; there is a suspension of all international and domestic flights; compounded by a nationwide lockdo
Members of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous tribe who live in the Dourados Indigenous Reserve, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. HANDOUT/Tiago Miotto/Indigenist Missionary Council
Overcrowded and impoveris
BY SUJIT CHAKRABORTY
Guwahati, April 21 (IANS) Amid the nationwide lockdown, a 45-years-old migrant worker from Gujarat reached his home in Assam in 24-days after a 2,890-km trip, of which he had
Subrata Pati atop the neem tree in his village of Ahanda teaching his students history. Photograph: PTI Photo
Subrata Pati, who is in Ahanda village in West Bengal's Bankura district, climbs a
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BY SFOORTI MISHRA
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Becoming a mother is one of the most phenomenal events in a woman's life. Nothing gives her more joy than holding her baby in her a
BY VINOD MIRANI
IANS | April 19
Struggle: The word people used for the hundreds of aspiring men alighting from Frontier Mail (now Golden Temple Mail) and other trains coming from the North, especially Punja
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JOHANNESBURG, April 18 (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for Afri
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. REUTER
Children of stranded migrant workers wait for food, distributed by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Chennai, Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Read about a journey that began on March 17, 1959 in Lhasa and ended a year later in in McLeodganj in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where
New Delhi, April 16 (PTI): As the nation enters the second phase of the COVID-19 lockdown, an opinion poll during the first phase has given very high credit to the central government for its actions to control
B00Y D.D. KALE
IANS | April 16
The deadly coronavirus pandemic, that originated from China, has so far killed over 1.35 lakh people across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic will leave s
BY SUMIT SAXENA
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) In an email interview with IANS, Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, said some evidence suggests the novel coronavirus infect
BY SIDDHI JAIN
New Delhi, April 15 (IANSlife) British anthropologist Jane Goodall, 86, who is known for her path-breaking research on chimpanzees in 1960s Tanzania, blames humankind for disrespecting n
Mumbai, April 14 (IANS) In a shocker, Maharashtra has willy-nilly emerged as a global hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of the mortality rate, even as the country went into an extended lockdown til
People wearing face masks are seen at a park after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 12, 2020. REUTERS
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) In the first analysis by the man widely considered Indias foremost electoral strategist, Prashant Kishor has said the crisis has increased the already existing levels of frustrat
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BY MAJOR GENERAL (RETD) S.B. ASTHANA
IANS | April 11
The recent decisions of the Honorable Supreme Court on February 17 and March 17 rega
London, April 11 (IANS) Since water can obviously be found on our planet today, it means that the water we are now enjoying on Earth has been there since its formation, says a study which sheds new light i