San Francesco, April 30 (IANS) As COVID-19 impacts every aspect of work and life globally, Microsoft has seen two years' worth of digital transformation in just two months of its third quarter (January-March pe
Mumbai, April 30 (PTI) Rishi Kapoor''s death is the end of an era in Hindi cinema, said co-stars and friends Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan and Karan Johar as they reminisced about the time spent with the ac
Health workers wearing protective suits screen resident of Dharavi in Mumbai during a house-to-house health survey. Photograph: PTI Photo
New Delhi, April 30 (PTI): As the May 3 deadline for t
Philanthropist Bill Gates (L) embraces Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg during an announcement of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to "cure, prevent or manage all disease" by the end of the century during a news confer
A view of the destruction caused by Cyclone Fani after its landfall, in Puri, Friday, May 3, 2019. (PTI Photo)
The displacements were a result of a combination of increasing hazard intensity, high po
Raphael AVL Malchhanhima with the two ambulance drivers -- Chinnathanbi and Jeyanthiran, who travelled for over 3,000 km back to Mizoram. Photograph: @ZoramthangaCM/Twitter
Home is where the h
A message encouraging hand washing is seen above the Buckhead Theater days before the phased reopening of businesses and restaurants from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Executive Chairperson of Biocon, feels that India should start opening its lockdown from May 3 and become fully operational by end of June.
In an exc
A rickshaw puller wearing a facemask sleeps on his rickshaw in Dhaka on April 27. — AFP
Rules making people wear masks in public are hitting the poor hardest and exposing deep inequalities
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Mumbai, April 27 (IANS) Noted for her eye-catching saris, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Monday turned heads for a different reason - when she donned the sparkling white uniform of a caring nurse with a cap,
BY VISHAL GULATI
Chandigarh, April 27 (IANS) More than 2.5 lakh Indian nationals, including about one lakh students, are stranded in Australia amid coronavirus pandemic. But their families back home have not
By Bharat Upadhyay
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) As the field of alternative medicine gains immense popularity in the wake of COVID-19, the ancient practice of Ayurveda with India as its land of origi
BY SAEED NAQVI
IANS | April 26
A piquant picture of the post pandemic world appeared in the spa town of Lazne Bohdanec east of Prague when Czech police patrol ordered a bevy of committed nudists t
A Yanomami indian follows agents of Brazil's environmental agency in a gold mine during an operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Braz
Dayaram Kushwaha, a migrant worker, carries his 5-year-old son, Shivam, on his shoulders as they walk along a road to return to their village, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coron
BY GANESH BHATT
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) With the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic disrupting ongoing Board examinations for Class 10 and 12 and the new academic sessions in colleges
Washington, April 24 (IANS) The COVID-19 pandemic, the first modern pandemic, will define this era and no one who lives through this will ever forget it, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has stressed.
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Ndileka Mandela speaking at her book launch in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2019. George Elize/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mandela's granddaughter is using her own experience of
A woman labourer watches television inside her house at the compound of a factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand January 23, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
"I don't know if I
BY PUJA GUPTA
New Delhi, April 22 (IANSlife) Governments across the world have sealed international borders; there is a suspension of all international and domestic flights; compounded by a nationwide lockdo