An NGO in Kolkata is doing its best to ensure that no one sleeps empty stomach during Durga Puja.  India Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) Foundation is serving food to the underprivileged and needy, and is also providing dry ration to those struggling to make ends meet due to the COVID-induced lockdown. Representational Image IHA Foundation volunteers …

The government has opened cinema halls and schools as part of the unlocking process, but the excitement among people remains damp. The first weekend of the reopening of cinema halls after a halt of almost seven months due to the coronavirus pandemic witnessed a poor response from the public in general, with theatres getting a meagre 10-15 per cent footfall. …

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan donated plasma on September 3 at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack for treatment of critical COVID-19 patients. Pradhan, who had contracted the virus in July, also urged people who have recovered from COVID-19 to come forward and donate their plasma to save lives. “Donated plasma at SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack today. …

Amidst all the oratorical drama of promising justice to a rape survivor and hanging heads in shame, the ground reality remains the same. Women continue to be raped and murdered in broad daylight and sometimes their bodies burnt in the dead of the night by authorities that are supposed to protect them, robbing them of dignity yet again. With all …

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been arrested by Uttar Pradesh police when he with a few other Congress leaders was on his way to meet the family of the Hathras gangrape victim. Modi’s police beat up Rahul Gandhi, push him to ground before arresting him. By being brutal with the most important opposition leader of the country, the Hindutva Gang …

When Kala Bagai arrived in the US with her family in 1915 from undivided India, like many other Asians in Berkeley, she was discriminated against and pushed out of her home due to rampant racism. Berkeley now has a 100 plus years of South Asian history with one-fifth of the population Asian. It now also has a street named after …

These could be the last few days of Delhi residents breathing clean air, courtesy lockdown and lesser vehicles on roads. Satellite images from US space agency NASA have shown that farmers have started burning crop residue in parts of Punjab and Haryana, which every year deteriorates air quality in the national capital. The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting …

Delhi, which was once thought to have flattened the curve is witnessing a surge in new coronavirus infections as public movement is going back to normal. According to government data, Delhi has reported a rise of over 190 per cent in active coronavirus cases in one month. Official figures suggest 84,087 new coronavirus infections have been reported in the national …

After a few cases in Kerala of atrocities against elephants, a project aims to reduce atrocities against elephants in captivity by collecting blood and faecal samples of the estimated 2,700 captive elephants. The plan is being carried out under the aegis of Project Elephant. This exercise, Noyal Thomas, director of Project Elephant told TOI, will give a unique identity number …

COVID-19 cases in India have crossed the grim 50-lakh mark, and despite claims by the government, some states are facing an acute shortage of oxygen supply for treatment of patients. As reports suggest, many states are dependent for part of their oxygen supply on other states. After some states tried to prevent oxygen being moved outside their borders, the Union …