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A team of medics provide medicines to the flood-affected people in Morigaon district of Assam

Assam lost 8000 square kilometres of land to erosion since 1951

Around 10 lakh families have become landless due to erosion over the years

27 July 2020 6:28 PM IST

For the residents of Chellanam, sea erosion, inundation of houses and temporary relocation to relief camps or relatives houses are annual affairs during the monsoon

Kerala schoolboy sends SOS to President Kovind as sea erodes his...

Villagers abandon their homes when the monsoon brings the sea in. This year they are prisoners of COVID-19

27 July 2020 5:55 PM IST

A man carries his injured father at Majestic bus stand in Bengaluru. PTI photo

COVID cases in Karnataka may cross the one lakh mark today

The one-week lockdown has not helped to bring down corona cases in the state

27 July 2020 12:01 PM IST

A medic collects a sample from a child for COVID-19 test in New Delhi. Experts have been predicting a peak soon in the three frontline states of Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu. (PTI Photo)

14 lakh and counting, Indiaâ€™s COVID juggernaut in unstoppable...

Sikkim records its first death, leaving only Mizoram as the only state without a COVID fatality

27 July 2020 11:31 AM IST

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been a challenge to design new courses.

Telangana universities to offer B.Sc data science, B.Com in business...

Data science and analytics are the hot new choices for students rights now, and Telangana universities are pitching for...

26 July 2020 8:10 PM IST

Recovering after doing a double take, they realised that the COVID-19 patient had pulled a fast one on them by giving wrong phone number. Representational Image

COVID: Mysuru man gives wrong number to officials, call goes to Deputy...

District officials are trying to nail down the man who gave them the wrong number

26 July 2020 7:35 PM IST

Health workers arrange samples of patients for COVID-19 via Rapid Antigen. PTI photo

Why Kerala should increase COVID-19 testing

The number of testing centres in the state is grossly inadequate when compared to rapidly increasing positive cases

26 July 2020 3:45 PM IST

Non-Covid-19 patients wait at the entrance of the Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad for medicines even as the authorities closed the gates. P Surendra Photo

COVID19 racing through Telangana districts

GHMC tops at 641, rest of districts total 952

26 July 2020 1:06 PM IST

The political parties who have jumped to champion the reservation cause can do justice to its beneficiaries and those who oppose quotas by coming out with the data on representation or lack of it and settle the issue.

Remove creamy layer for OBCs: Stalin

He said creamy layer was an obstacle for the development of OBCs through the Mandal Commission recommendations

26 July 2020 12:36 PM IST

Passengers with their luggage on their way to reach Howrah station and board a long route train, during the complete lockdown in the state to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Kolkata. (PTI)

COVID-19 in India: Delhi may peak in a week, but the South has to wait...

There cannot be a uniform peak in COVID-19 cases in a large country like India, says expert.

25 July 2020 11:03 PM IST

Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra CM

No complete lifting of lockdown in Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray

He said there was a need to strike a balance between the issues related to health and economy.

25 July 2020 2:19 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reviews the facilities which will be granted to coronavirus-affected patients, during a nationwide lockdown, at Advanced Institute Of Medical Sciences in Bhopal. PTI Photo

Shivraj Singh Chouhan tests positive for COVID-19, goes into...

He is the first CM of any state to contract the virus.

25 July 2020 12:50 PM IST