COVID-19 warriors: How one man saved a newborn abandoned by a travelling migrant

Social worker Abul Kalam Azad also helped many tired, on-the-road migrants during the initial days of the lockdown

Coronavirus update: Global death toll reaches 900,000 people

Delhi government will continue with plasma therapy to fight COVID-19, health minister says

Simply Put: COVID-19 and Sri Ram’s arrow

COVID-19: Where India stands 6 months since Modi called for lockdown

As the country marks six months since the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed, its metropolitan cities have resumed public transport and offices, …

Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles

The mounting evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 can infect immune privileged sites and, from there, result in chronic persistent — …

The Pandemic Year: How India saw its greatest internal exodus

A five-part series as India marks a year of the dreaded COVID-19 lockdown: We look at how the pandemic brought the issues of internal migrants to …

SC Mande: It is too early to say that the UK’s SARS-CoV-2 variant is not in India

India needs more labs dealing with extremely dangerous pathogens as well as trained human resources, says SC Mande, director-general of …

Simply Put: The Great COVID-19 Race

9 reasons you can be optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be widely available in 2021

It is realistic that we will know sometime in late 2020 whether some COVID-19 vaccines are safe, exactly how effective they are and which ones …

Simply Put: Russian COVID-19 vaccine

The Ajrakh jacket (CoVest), the first COVID-19 smart clothing made in India?

Former professor at the National Institute of Design teams up with artisans to craft a jacket that can help one move around without much hassle …

Coronavirus update: India tally crosses 2 lakh

Number of active cases crossed 1 lakh mark

Simply Put: The COVID-19 show jump

Lateral Thoughts: Waiting for the vaccine?

Vaccination programmes cannot be dealt with outside the purview of public health

COVID-19 pandemic: India death toll in 9 months is 7 times what swine flu killed in a decade

India crosses five million mark in confirmed COVID-19 cases

Dangers of a nationalist vaccine

In the time of COVID-19, the Indian government has shown an embarrassing readiness to cut corners by seeking to push through a vaccination by …

Travel post COVID-19: Providing thrust to digital booking

Why e-ticketing introduced in post-globalisation era will be boon in post-COVID-19 one 

In the work-from-home battle for space, women are the reluctant nomads

Home offices, wherever they are present, are often taken by men by default when both partners are at home

COVID-19 killed more people in 16 months than natural disasters in 20 years

No disaster has killed more than 3 million people in recent history and in such a short time period

Simply Put: The Deal

COVID-19:The world is not on the track to green recovery, finds UN report

Only 18% of recovery spending to deal with COVID-19 impact was green, the report said

Simply Put: Vaccine for a vaccine

Here’s the first Africa-wide survey of the economic impact of COVID-19 on cultural industries

There are factors explaining the harsh impact of the pandemic on cultural industries in Africa. These range from levels of informality and the …

Did Dharavi model work? Is it herd immunity or plain luck?

As cases mounted and the toll rose, the bylanes of Dharavi kept waiting for the system to kick in; for many, the wait never ended

Odisha begins immunisation drive; operations smooth, say health officers

161 sites have been set up across the state for the vaccine campaign