'And they are going to be milder because we are dealing with the vaccinated and are much richer in terms of the immune response in the population.' IMAGE: A medic attends to a patient at the covid......
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......
If the pandemic persists, at least a portion of the blame should go to greed and nationalism that got in the way of the world acting together, notes Prosenjit Datta. IMAGE: A vaccination drive at......
Is the worst of the Covid crisis behind India?As cases dip three weeks after Diwali, the answer is a possible yes, say several experts, attributing the downslide to a large section of the......
Whether the third wave will ravage us depends on the pace of vaccinations, careful and calibrated opening up of establishments, and a strategy to contain the spread in specific states or pockets,......
Universal basic income or social security? Economist Nitin Desai feels we need a blueprint for universal health care and pensions to help the vulnerable section. IMAGE: All Indians need access to......
India saw 4.2 million foreign tourists till May mainly thanks to visitors from Bangladesh Foreign tourist arrivals are growing at the highest pace in more than a decade, primarily due to a sharp......
Darjeeling is on the boil over the demand for a separate Gorkhaland state. June and July are bad months to have a strike.Tea picking during its most valuable season has been affected.Those......
More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards Substandard medicines could be three times more prevalent than the government says, two new studies show.......
Just as unregulated unauthorised hawkers and their shops can kill a city, some space needs to be carved out for distinctive affordable street food, says Shubir Roy. At Rs 5 per small glass of tea......
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Photographer Dabboo Ratnani is ready to launch his 2016 calendar and several celebrities turned to Twitter to share some......
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.''Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!''Nobody would have......
Cricket lovers are likely to remember Lance Klusener more for his outstanding performance in the 1999 World Cup in England rather than anything else. But fact is there was more to the South......
Get well, Leander One of Kolkata's favourite sons, Leander Paes, is down with a brain ailment, but people in his hometown, so familiar with his on-court fightbacks, are confident he will emerge......
Living cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Steve Waugh made a call for coaches, physios and trainers to be given longer tenures to ensure better results.The three greats, who are in......
Give cricket a chance, says Pakistani captain LatifPakistani captain Rashid Latif said on Thursday that early resumption of bilateral India-Pakistan cricket matches could play a big role in easing......