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Be it the Spanish Flu, Polio, Ebola, MERS, SARS or now the dreaded pandemic of COVID-19, nurses have always been on the frontline, protecting the rest of the world

The unsung heroes in the fight against COVID-19

Doctors point out how nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system. Without their dedication, the system will collapse

14 Jun 2020 2:15 AM

Vulnerable guest workers at Chennai. (PTI)

Experts: ICMR is wrong. We are in community transmission

Experts have said that the virus is now spreading among population groups and localities that have nothing to do with travellers.

13 Jun 2020 9:28 PM

People wearing face masks stand in a queue as they wait at a bus stand, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Cenrtre-state unity key to winning Covid fight

This is not the first time, though, the Union government has deputed its teams to the states but the results were not all that encouraging

12 Jun 2020 7:18 PM

: Delhi BJP President Adesh Kumar Gupta holds a placard along with party MLAs during a protest against the Delhi Government over COVID-19 situation in the national capital, at Rajghat in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Coronavirus abets play of dirty electoral games

Seeing that the country’s fight against the pandemic has not induced a cooperative outlook in the BJP toward political opponents

12 Jun 2020 5:00 PM

Is film industry ready for pay cuts?

Madhuri Dixit Nene encourages actors to take pay cuts in efforts to help producers reduce their coronavirus-induced losses

10 Jun 2020 8:25 PM

Devotees at the Bodh Gaya temple after it reopened on Sunday. (PTI)

No respite from coronavirus for India as total cases reach 2.76 lakh

The number of active cases in the country stands at 1,33,632.

10 Jun 2020 12:21 PM

Doctors examines people during a free medical camp in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari | India’s bankruptcy of infra, ideas on display

After the lockdown was announced it is indeed intriguing why the health minister Harshvardhan was not briefing the nation

10 Jun 2020 2:19 AM

Volunteers wearing protective suits conduct thermal tests at Dharavi, during the fifth phase of the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Covid paranoia, and some cogitations

Frankly, seeing everyone in almost same type and colour of masks is just making this lockdown phase more uninteresting

07 Jun 2020 5:52 PM

Migrants stand in a queue at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai. PTI Photo

Charity alone is not enough to save informal sector workers

Collaboration with the authorities, has been difficult, and sporadic, primarily because the government’s attitude has been inconsistent

06 Jun 2020 4:24 PM

Guest workers look out from the window of their train in Prayagraj, India as they return to their villages.AP Photo

AA Edit | Heroes of Covid-19

Where the government faltered, citizens tried, if limitedly

03 Jun 2020 6:06 PM

: A farmer carries bunches of paddy saplings for plantation in a field, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Only bold moves can bail out Covid economy

The government has failed miserably by window-dressing old proposals to hoodwink people into believing that they are the new ones

03 Jun 2020 5:54 PM

Women along with wearing face shields leave the Birsa Munda International Airport after they were brought by a special flight from Mumbai. PTI Photo

Lockdown reinforced gender roles, more women abused

The lockdown has proved to be challenging for all women — professional or homemakers , with all family at home, demanding more attention

03 Jun 2020 5:28 PM

An elderly Indian reacts as a staff member checks his body temperature before allowing him into an eatery in Bengaluru. AP Photo

Karnataka worries about the Mumbai link to rising Covid19 cases

What made the contagion worse was that the government cut short the 14-day institutional quarantine mandatory for the migrants to one week

02 Jun 2020 6:28 PM

Migrants arriving from Mumbai undergo screening at Danapur Railway Station, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Patna. PTI Photo

Aakar Patel | Seven things India must do to save itself from disaster

All parties and the government acknowledge we are in trouble, and more trouble lies ahead

02 Jun 2020 4:59 PM

With the number of new coronavirus cases in India topping 6,000 for the seventh straight day, this might, however, be another example of too little being done too late. PTI Photo

AA Edit | The pandemic exploiters

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the importance of the public health system back to the forefront.

29 May 2020 8:05 PM

Migrants, who have arrived from Surat in Gujarat, walk to board buses to reach their native places, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. PTI Photo

Anand K Sahay | ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’: A mantra to mask failure?

When the lockdown came without notice, and the regime left the 400 million informal sector in the lurch, the Indian state sat unmoved

28 May 2020 7:25 PM

The video grab shows the child trying to pull the blanket off his mother

Watch: Child tries to wake dead mother at Bihar's Muzaffarpur railway station

The incident occurred on May 25 (Monday) at Bihar’s Muzaffarpur railway station

27 May 2020 7:40 PM

Palaniswami's government has been taking a number of initiatives for economic revival. Representational image

Despite virus outbreak, Tamil Nadu attracts 17 investors worth Rs.15,128

The companies which signed the MoUs are from Germany, Finland, Taiwan, France, South Korea, Japan, China, USA, Australia, UK

27 May 2020 5:20 PM

Migrants stand in a queue on a hot sunny day at Lalgarh Junction to board a special train to Bihar, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Bikaner. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari: Locked down in India, a view from the ground

While the middle classes and the rich retreated under their beds the poor baulked and decided to get home to the safety of their villages

25 May 2020 5:14 PM

Migrants, not adhering to social distancing norms, wait to board a train to their native places at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli: Let them have song

Why give them rice, dal and water, was his point, when we could give them life-affirming art and literature

24 May 2020 7:03 PM

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