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Some of the world’s best scientific minds are working round the clock to have a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19. But a high school dropout already had the vaccine ready and was to sell it in the market. Or, at least that is what Prahallad Bisi from Odisha wanted to do, taking advantage of …

Doctors of the north municipal corporation-run Hindu Rao Hospital have launched an online campaign protesting against unpaid salaries.  Hindu Rao, which is the biggest hospital of North MCD and currently a COVID-19 designated facility, has failed to pay pending dues to its staff for 106 days now.  Twitter As a part of the campaign, the protesting doctors posted a picture …

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 …

Pictures of an elderly woman from Kerala using laptop to read the news have delighted netizens. The 90-year-old lady identified as Mary Mathews has gone viral after her grandson Arun Thomas shared her photographs on social media platform Reddit. Reddit Mathews was born in the 1930s, when laptops did not exist and news was consumed through newspapers and magazines. At …

The Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), shrinking over the years because of encroachments, will now expand by 800 acres. Just weeks after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray proposed to designate 600 acres of land in Aarey Colony as forest, the state government’s Forest Department has not only agreed to add another 200 acres to what the CM sought, but also link …

From Punjab to Haryana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu millions of farmers across the country are on the streets on Friday as they raise their voice against the Farm Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament last week.  REUTERS Heavy police force have been deployed across states to deal with any untoward situation. Read more Kerala Gets UN Award …

Life has come a long way for Lakshmi, aka Jasmine, who for years walked across the roads in Delhi under the hot sun and cold winter as a begging elephant.  In July 2019 the female elephant then named Lakshmi had made headlines after the Forest Department claimed that she was missing. bccl/file Lakshmi, along with her mahout had gone missing …

Getting the right treatment at the right time can at times be the difference between life and death. One of the key factors to get a timely treatment is to take the patient to the hospital at the earliest. But unfortunately, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have come across any number of horror stories where patients including those in critical …

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 …

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 …