A man walks past an advertisement showing per-cautions of Coronavirus (COVID-19) after the lockdown by the government to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), In New Delhi on Tuesda
Ajay Kewat, a bank employee, poses for a photograph inside his house in Mumbai, India, March 23, 2020. Picture taken March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
MUMBAI, March 24 (Reuters) - Shaikh
By Aarti Tikoo Singh
New Delhi/Washington, March 23 (IANS) The number of casualties in China due to the novel coronavirus pandemic may be way higher than the official figure that the Chinese
A man bathes at a roadside municipal tap in a market area of Kolkata, India, March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
With water use rising by 1% a year, cutting down could help curb climate-heat
March 22 March 22 (IANSlife) "The arts are wonderfully challenging and difficult to engage with or tackle, depending on your point of view. They are by nature, reflections of a nations identity -- at times disp
A wheat field is seen in Los Banos, California, United States, May 5, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
A study looked at how severe drought could hit U.S. wheat harvests - and ripple around the world,
By Sukant Deepak
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) "I'm not sleep deprived, just that I don't want to sleep. How can one miss the night? Yes, I am forever restless. Sometimes I might just take out m
A combination photo of the Woodlands Causeway between Singapore and Malaysia, before (L) and after Malaysia imposed a lockdown on travel over the coronavirus outbreak. REUTERS/Edgar Su
London, Marc
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi, March 18 (IANSlife) Pushed on the brink of extinction, many bird species are fighting a battle to simply survive in the urban world. Coming forth as a silent call fo
A woman hangs a blanket out to dry, at a slum in New Delhi, India January 2, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Millions of people in Asia are at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 due to inadequat
By Archana Sharma
Jaipur, March 17 (IANS) If political sources are to be believed, the BJP in Rajasthan has started chalking out a strategy to dismantle the Congress government -- it is eying
New Delhi/Paris, March 13 (IANS) The global economic growth will be merely 1.4 per cent this year, compared to 2.9 per cent in 2019, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide, Organisation for Eco
New York, March 13 (IANS) Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emissions, say researchers.
Rising glob
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Bindu Rana Kapoor was a director in at least 42 companies, many of them investment companies, data accessed shows, some of whom have been named in the FIR registered by the CBI for re
BY PINKI VIRANI
IANS | March 11
Four hangings as splints for a fracturing land. In caste-inequity normative India -- where mythology is becoming history, politically-inconvenient histories b
A woman carries a red long handmade crochet to represent blood alongside others during a protest to demand justice for victims of femicides and gender violence in Guadalajara, Mexico March 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mich
BY SAEED NAQVI
IANS | March 8
It would be unfair to compare the Shaheen Bagh anti CAA, NPR, NRC movement with mass mobilization efforts leading to independence. The movement has no Gandhi le
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) As the world gears up to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi even giving up his social media handles on Sunday to women who matter -- Indian
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By Puja Gupta
New Delhi, March 6 (IANSlife) Meghalaya - with its cotton clouds heaped just above your heads, carpets of green, rich valley floors and glistening fores
A tibetan woman waits to be hired by traders to clean up the freshly picked cordyceps at a cordyceps trade market in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China's western Qinghai province, June 10, 2019. REU