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Alongside doctors and health professionals, the nation’s babus have emerged as the principal force of resistance against the coronavirus pandemic. They are not in the news but working behind the scenes to tackle the unprecedented public health crisis. Besides taking salary cuts, babus across the...

The Centre in all likelihood will extend the current spell of lockdown beyond April 14. Many state governments are piling on pressure on the Centre to do this. Odisha Thursday extended the lockdown till April 30 — the first state in the country to do...

While we all know that crows are very bright, few people know about the abilities and intelligence of the pigeon. Pigeons can multitask; they can do more jobs at the same time than humans. In an experiment, scientists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, trained test groups of...

At a time when we are surrounded chiefly by bleak news on the health front, one development on the power front should give us some cheer. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to countrymen to express solidarity with health workers and others fighting the coronavirus...

New York city has borne witness to a fresh threat from SARS-CoV2. A four-year-old Malayan tigress at the Bronx Zoo, named Nadia, has tested positive for COVID-19. According to the zoo authorities, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Iowa confirmed the case. It is believed...

The end of COVID-19 lockdown is bound to bring to light several horror stories. One such move that has not witnessed noisy, nationwide opposition yet is the introduction and later retraction of a law pertaining to domicile in Jammu and Kashmir. The new law proposed...

For many babus, rules are only for others not for the heaven-born. An IAS officer in Kerala skipped home quarantine after returning from abroad. He was later traced in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, his hometown. A case has been lodged against him for going AWOL. Anupam...

The Centre has slashed interest rates on popular small savings schemes – a mainstay of nearly half of the nation’s population, especially the village poor and the urban elderly by anywhere between 70 basis points and 140 basis points. The alibi bandied about by the...

We select one disease to be mortally afraid of – and ignore all the diseases that we should be scared of. One of these is bovine tuberculosis. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a disease of cattle that is a major public health threat. It is transmitted...

The unplanned manner in which Prime Minister Modi declared the COVID-linked 21-day lockdown is taking a harsh toll. For instance, several faithful from various states and abroad who attended a religious event at the Markaz or the Global Centre of the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin...