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Medical staff members tend to a Covid-19 patient at the intensive care unit of Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy. (Photo: AFP)World
COVID-19 cases rose by more than 50%, deaths stable, says WHO

Last week, WHO noted a pandemic record high of 9.5 million new infections in a single week

12 Jan 2022 4:40 PM IST

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Shashi Warrier | How I made peace with my scooter and my life

I tried lots of popular scooters, and they all seemed the same: small and light and cramped, with my knees hitting the...

2 Jan 2022 6:59 AM IST

An Afghan woman is wrapped with a blanket as she and her family camp outside the Directorate of Disaster in Herat, Afghanistan. (AP Photo)Opinion
Anita Anand | Humanitarian aid to Afghans amidst suffering: Will it be...

Most of the development aid coming into Afghanistan has stopped

30 Dec 2021 11:37 PM IST

India on Monday allowed fully vaccinated foreign travellers from a list of 99 countries to enter without the need to quarantine themselves. (Representational Photo:AFP)Nation
India opens up for foreigners for first time since pandemic began

To encourage travellers to visit India, the government is also planning to issue five lakh free visas through next March

16 Nov 2021 1:28 AM IST

In Hyderabad there are 1,800 budget private schools and around 200 corporate institutions. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
Patralekha Chatterjee | Reopen schools, but keep ground realities in...

Online education has certainly helped many children but the pandemic has also exposed the glaring fault lines in our...

26 Aug 2021 1:38 AM IST

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid’s impact, WFH has hit India’s women...

The unpaid childcare burden per woman in India in a “normal” year is estimated to be 2,380 hours

2 July 2021 12:15 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Too much PMO! Ex-babus chide Modi on vaccine policy,...

The 'coalition' of the willing that Mr Modi seemed to have created since his ascent to power in 2014 is now beginning to...

3 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

Women work in a field during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in Srinagar. PTI PhotoOpinion
Aakar Patel: Job security is a distant dream in lockdown times

The meaning of job security becomes especially clear in a time like this. For crores of us around the globe, that...

12 May 2020 4:36 PM IST

Ambulance and air ambulance crews wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) work to stabilise a patient with possible COVID-19 symptoms who was found unconscious having suffered a cardiac arrest while cycling in Botley, near Southampton, southern England. AFP PhotoOpinion
Kishwar Desai: So many Indians found calling in NHS, so many devoted...

Many of those who died Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were usually working beyond retirement age

11 May 2020 5:08 PM IST

Health workers attend to a colleague who fainted due to exhaustion and long working hours at a COVID-19 testing camp in New Delhi. AP PhotoOpinion
Aakar Patel: Covid-19 has blown away all our fig leaves

It is our fault as a democracy that we have tolerated such a lack of focus on health, and we will pay for it longer this...

28 April 2020 5:46 PM IST

A key worker hands back a swab to a medical worker at a drive-in testing facility for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in east London. AFP PhotoOpinion
UK paid heavily for being late off the mark on coronavirus

While parts of India are now being opened up, very tentatively, in the UK there is confusion and debate on how long the...

26 April 2020 7:36 PM IST

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