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Kolkata hospitals in a spot as nurses quit jobs. (PTI Photo)

Kolkata hospitals in a spot as nurses quit jobs, leave city amid...

A nurse, who left for Manipur earlier this week, said safety concerns and parental pressure were the two main reasons...

17 May 2020 9:01 PM IST

Physical distance norms were thrown aside when free rations were supplied to staff of Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad on Monday, May 11, 2020. The hospital is the main designated facility for treatment of Covid-19 patients in Hyderabad. (AA Photo: SSR)

Hyderabad reports 79 cases, highest so far in a day

Sudden spike breaks a sequence of low daily numbers after the government changed its testing policy

12 May 2020 7:24 AM IST

Crowd at Ghazipur Mandi

Social distancing & safety norms go for a toss at Ghazipur Mandi

Earlier, it was decided in a meeting on thursday that people coming to the mandi will be allowed entry only after 6 am

2 May 2020 8:32 PM IST

The area around Hyderabads iconic Charminar is deserted on Thursday evening. On Ramzan evenings, the locality is normally abuzz with acctivity. (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)

Hopes dashed as Telangana sees 22 new cases of coronavirus

There are 115 containment zones in the Greater Hyderabad area

1 May 2020 8:31 AM IST

The family came forward to arrange a donor for extracting plasma. AFP Photo

First patient recovers from plasma therapy

The donor had recovered from the infection three weeks before her donation and again tested Covid-19 negative

27 April 2020 7:08 PM IST

West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee

Senior govt doc dies in state, CM tweets tribute

The doctor died at a private hospital in Salt Lake at 1.30 am on Sunday

27 April 2020 5:31 PM IST

Syed Babu was put into quarantine at the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru.

Depressed Covid-19 patient jumps to death from Bengaluru hospital

He was an auto driver on dialysis, and was shaken by the death of another patient in his quarantine ward

27 April 2020 12:41 PM IST

Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services personnel spray disinfectant on a street in Chennai as a preventive measure against the coronavirus pandemic. (PTI)

Interns and PG students infected by coronavirus in Chennai?

Doctors union demands full disclosure on corona tests carried out in the quarantine wards of Chennai hospital

27 April 2020 11:22 AM IST

An overview of the street in Padarayanapura locality in Bengaluru where violence broke out when health staff tried to move coronavirus suspects to a quarantine facility.

Bengaluru hot-spot residents resist move to quarantine facility

Police reinforcements rushed in as local people throw down barricades and block civic staff

20 April 2020 12:44 AM IST

Social workers warn of a spread of HIV if CSWs are forced to abandon safe-sex practices. (Photo: WHO)

Sex workers are starving, would you help them?

Unlike other categories of workers, CSWs have no social support system to turn to

18 April 2020 7:50 PM IST

Consumers are getting their grapes at their doorstep for half the market price.

Bengaluru grape farmers go direct to consumers, and movement spreads...

Faced with a desperate glut amid the lockdown, farmers team up with resident welfare associations

18 April 2020 8:06 AM IST

Mounted police personnel patrol a deserted road during the ongoing nationwide lockdown in Kolkata on April 14, 2020. (PTI)

Bengal governor says Mamata's staff should be sacked, paramilitary...

Jagdeep Dhankar says lockdown not being enforced in some areas

15 April 2020 1:35 PM IST