Around 120 people had been evacuated from the burning centre, rescuers said on Sunday.
In its daily situation report, the WHO said there is no evidence that the BCG vaccine protects people against COVID-19.
"No problem is insurmountable," Shaheen Mistri tells Anjuli Bhargava.
'I am a vegetarian and nobody can force me to eat meat.' 'It is my personal right to decide what I eat.' 'Similarly, telling a person who eats non-vegetarian food not to eat beef is a human rights violation.'
Children will fall and rise again; that is what life is all about, says Virender Kapoor.
The NGT, while banning the manja last year, said the string, coated with glass and metal powder, poses a threat to the environment.
During the heavy rains through the week here and other regions of Tamil Nadu not only inflatable boats, but preparedness, determination and presence of mind came in handy for personnel including policemen and women, civic and forest workers who rescued people, animals and snakes.
'India had done the right thing to go for a nationwide lockdown, but the major problem for the country could surface when the monsoon season arises as people's immunity levels go down.'
The Centre has announced an extension for two more weeks in the nationwide lockdown. However, several relaxations will be allowed as per zones.
The high-fat, protein-rich diet has side effects too.
So what's all this talk about the Yeti? Does it really exist?
The weather department has ruled out any respite from the sweltering heat in the coming days and local government officials have asked people not to venture out in the scorching sun.
The Indian government and private firms have stepped up efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of COVID-19 which has claimed over 3,700 lives with more than 1,25,000 cases in the country.
In its petition, PETA has contended that manja posed a grave threat to humans and animals as every year a number of deaths are caused by it.
Apeksha Bhattacharya has dedicated her life to popularising ballet.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
The government is contemplating how to overcome the problems caused by the street dogs and sterilisation process will be also strengthened, he told reporters in Kottayam.
'How will they give me permission to die when there are many others in conditions worse than mine?'
'When people who ignored us, when relatives who have not spoken to us for a long time, congratulated us, it was a proud moment for my mother.'
A technology has been developed in Maharashtra for using paddy straw as animal feed
Jahnavi Mehta. Kaviya Maran. Preity Zinta.
Cars 2 is more than just quality animation, and it's more than just a film.
Shaan talks about things that are close to his heart.
This start-up took the 'novel' path to teach children mathematics.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast 'extremely heavy rains' at a few places in Marathwada, Mumbai and other parts of the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra in the next 24 hours.
You need electricity, metallurgy, mechanics, propulsion etc. We don't see any evidence of these, Aniket Sule, Reader at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education said.
Go for this Tamil movie only if you have the mental capacities of a six-year-old.
Actor Amitabh Bachchan has launched a worldoo.com exclusively to kids between 6-12 years of age.
A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
With the recovery of six more bodies, the death toll in the Malin village landslide disaster has gone up to 136, even as health officials are sanitising the area in view of the unhygienic conditions there due to decomposing bodies.
'No religion sanctions what happened in that school in Peshawar. What happened there was a crime against humanity.'
Meet Sayamindu Dasgupta!
'What prevents infection are masks, physical distancing and good ventilation.'
Having developed a taste for what humans eat, the monkeys are wreaking havoc in Shimla, reports Ashwani Sharma.
Fresh off the OTT oven, Sukanya Verma picks 10 hot new treats for you.
Megan Fox loses out to a bunch of cartoon characters, at the box office.
Designer Jeremy Scott brought the circus to the ramp.
Everything you need to know about the Chinese New Year and its traditions.
The Hindutva social media continues to present the DMK especially as anti-god, anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin. The strategy did not work in the past, it has not worked in the present, and would not work in the future, as a massive vote-getter, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
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