The displacements were a result of a combination of increasing hazard intensity, high population exposure and high levels of social and economic vulnerability, a report says.
New Delhi, May 22 (PTI
New Delhi, May 22 (PTI): Cyclone Amphan, which has killed 77 people and left thousands homeless in West Bengal, is now considered even more destructive than Cyclone Aila which slammed southern Bangladesh and ea
New Delhi, May 21 (IANSlife) There is a lot of rhetoric and despair surrounding the current COVID-19 scenario which has declared the market slow-moving or outright stagnant. A cerebral two-day webinar, STIMULUS
As coronavirus curbs trap victims under the same roof as abusers, charities, celebrities and ordinary social media users are helping raise awareness online
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A child wearing a protective face mask disinfects hands as she arrives at a primary school, while Austrian schools reopen for pupils aged roughly six to 14, during the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outb
BY SIDDHI JAIN
New Delhi, May 19 (IANSlife) Venice, the beautiful Italian city where nature meets culture, was recently in news, when calm returned to its overtourism-affected waters with aquatic life
New Delhi, May 18 (PTI): The Congress on Monday said the fiscal stimulus package announced by the government is "hopelessly inadequate" given the gravity of the economic crisis as it amounts to only Rs 1.86 lak
BY SFOORTI MISHRA
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) As the highly contagious novel coronavirus disease has confined the people of India within the four walls of their houses, life of the marginalised peopl
New York, May 17 (IANS) As the world scrambles to fight coronavirus pandemic that has affected more than 4.6 million people, little attention has been paid to indigenous populations worldwide who may be es
BY HIMANSHU MANGLIK
The entire world is struggling as the coronavirus struts around like a manic pigeon, threatening to send the world into recession and depression. Struggling to contain the rogue vir
Rampukar Pandit, a migrant, weeps inconsolably while talking to a relative over his mobile phone at Nizamuddin Bridge, in New Delhi. Photograph: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo
'Inured as we are, his nak
A woman carrying her child arrives from Delhi at Mumbai Central station following the resumption of passenger train services by Indian Railways connecting major cities, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in
BY GOPAL KRISHNA AGRAWAL
IANS | May 13
The Prime Minister says ‘India can emerge as the global nerve centre of complex modern multinational supply chains in the post Covid-19 World.
The immediate cost
By Nikhila Natarajan
New York, May 13 (IANS) Some 50 days ago, Narendra Modi announced a national lockdown from 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. Around the same time, Donald Trump's White House announced social
A woman transports a drum after filling it with free drinking water supplied by a municipal corporation water tanker at a slum on a hot summer day in New Delhi June 16, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Whether we survive or die, it is upon god, but we will walk all the way home to Madhya Pradesh, said Ghanshyam, a resident of of Damoh, who has started walking from New Delhi along
Zapotec woman Juana Lazaro, a non-Spanish-speaker, washes her hands after learning about hand-washing and social distancing to avoid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from a local radio program, at her house in Te
Migrants with their belongings walk along a road to reach their native place Madhya Pradesh, during the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, near ISBT in New Delhi. Photograph:
BY PUJA GUPTA
New Delhi, May 9 (IANSlife) No lavish lunch date or buying expensive gifts? This Mothers Day, make the most of your time while in lockdown at home with mum.
Mothers don't demand mu
ER doctor Anne Messman poses for a photo amid a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Emily Elconin
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