New Delhi, August 21 (IANS): New aspects of the Coronavirus infection are coming to the fore as the pandemic continues its vice-like grip.
New symptoms are being discovered and so are residual symptoms. Comp
(Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj passed away on August 17 at the age of 90 in New Jersey. Daughter Durga Jasraj recalls her Bapuji beyond the legendary classical vocalist, as a man who loved many things from lear
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, August 20 (IANS): Coronavirus might have given nature a break in the sense that people are increasingly staying at home, thus bringing down pollution levels, but sustainabilit
Hard hit by loss of tourism revenue due to the pandemic, indigenous communities in the Caribbean return to traditional roots to survive
BOGOTA, August 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous cultur
Residents of the Middle Juruá Extractive Reserve worry that less rain could decimate livelihoods and leave them at risk of forest fires
CARAUARI, Brazil, August 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
India faces double-hit as coronavirus siphons off resources for tuberculosis care
NEW DELHI, August 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When India's strict coronavirus lockdown left migrant worker
BY SOUDHRITI BHABANI
Kolkata, August 17 (IANS): As Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses death anniversary on August 18 nears, the clamour for his ashes, believed to be kept in a temple in Japan, to be subj
New Delhi, August 17 (IANSlife) In a shocking study published recently, nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island now lose more ice than what is replenished by snowfall
BY SAEED NAQVI
IANS | August 16
Rahat Indori was five-years-old when the much loved poet Majaz died of a stroke after he was found on the freezing terrace of a country liquor shop in Lucknow's Qaisar Ba
The rate of COVID-19 deaths among indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon is nearly 250% higher than in the general population, new data shows
SAO PAULO, August 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rate of
BY FRANK F. ISLAM
IANS | August 15
US President Donald Trump issued two executive orders on Thursday restricting Chinese social media networks TikTok and WeChat, on the grounds that they pose si
New Delhi, August 14 (PTI): A fascination for robotics and technology has pushed students of a Zilla Parishad-run school in a remote village of Maharashtra's Aurangabad district to learn Japanese.
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BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, August 13 (IANS): In India it was long assumed that literature for children must have 'safe topics but in a world where Google knows everything, so do children. Now, a gro
Rise in child marriages feared as struggling families marry off girls to ease their economic hardship during the pandemic
MUMBAI, August 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the police knocked on the door
Srinagar, August 10 (IANS): Governance in Jammu & Kashmir was "badly managed and broken", and there was no system, no rule and no process, J&K Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam has said.
New Delhi, August 9 (IANS) With the National Education Policy 2020 recognising the need for flexibility in choosing the subjects that a student wants to study, implementation of this policy will boost science,
New Delhi, August 8 (IANS) Quite obviously, Independence Day - August 15 - means different things to different people. Is it tainted with pain, despair, and bloodshed due to Partition and the long drawn struggl
New Delhi, August 8 (IANS) For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), determined to shape the world in its own image without a shot being fired, the Cold War never ended 30 years ago as it aims to make China the nu
BY SUKANT DEEPAK
New Delhi, August 7 (IANS) Even as the film 'Peepli Live', India's official entry for the 83rd Acadmey Awards Best Foreign Film category completes a decade this month, its
BY SIDDHI JAIN
New Delhi, August 7 (IANSlife) As the world at large continues to lose people to the rising Covid-19 toll, the impact of the pandemic are exacerbated for women and girls. Restrictive soc