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Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

The ongoing pandemic's most telling debris other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia are the ubiquitous masks

29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM IST

Migrants sprayed with disinfectants in Delhis Lajpat Nagar. (Photo- Social Media)

Workers sprayed with 'disinfectant' in Delhi, civic body says 'by...

A video of the incident was shared on social media, worker engaged in a sanitation drive can be seen spraying...

23 May 2020 12:27 PM IST

468 Shramik Special trains run so far, over 5 lakh migrants ferried. (PTI Photo)

Railway operates 468 Shramik special trains till May 11, over 5 lakh...

While 363 trains have already reached their destination, 105 trains are in transit

11 May 2020 2:54 PM IST

Migrants stand in a queue at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai. PTI Photo

AA Edit | RVM: Good idea. Will it work?

A large number of electors will find it easy to vote from the place they are currently working out of.

2 Jan 2023 12:27 AM IST

Central American migrants travelling in the Migrant Via Crucis caravan sleep outside El Chaparral port of entry to US. (Photo: AFP)

145 Central American migrants from caravan entered US: officials

The migrants were part of a group of around 1,000 people who set out from Mexico's southern border on March 25.

4 May 2018 2:19 PM IST

The most political work rakes up Frances tough anti-migrant policy, with nearly 40 makeshift camps being razed in Paris and the last three years. (Twitter Screengrab/ @areej_algurg)

British street artist Banksy attacks France's crackdown on migrants...

None of the works were signed (as has been Banksy's recent trend), but experts opine they appear genuine.

25 Jun 2018 10:35 AM IST

Widespread allegations of rape have raised fears that Myanmars security forces are systematically using sexual violence against the stateless Rohingya. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

'They raped us one by one: Myanmar's Rohingya woman

The violence has forced thousands to flee, prompting a UN official to accuse Myanmar of carrying out ethnic cleansing.

25 Nov 2016 4:32 PM IST

Some 3,000 were picked up Saturday by the navy, coastguard, EU border agency Frontex and several NGOs, the coastguard said in a statement. (Photo: AP)

6000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean in 2 days

The rescues came a day after around 3,000 others were found floating in rubber boats and makeshift rafts after leaving...

7 May 2017 10:31 AM IST

The report comes shortly after Trump signed an order imposing an indefinite travel ban on Syrian refugees and a temporary curb on people from six other countries, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia from entering the US for at least 90 days. (Photo: Representational Image)

Libya rescues 420 migrants off its coast: navy

On Sunday, the coastguard rescued 215 migrants including 47 women off Zwara, 160 kilometres west of Tripoli, Qassem...

21 March 2017 8:31 AM IST

Czech President Milos Zeman. (Photo: AP)

Czech president backs Trump's anti-migrant steps

Trump signed an order to boost the vetting of potential immigrants and refugees, seeking to keep radical Islamic...

28 Jan 2017 4:35 PM IST

Charity group SOS Mediterranee tweeted this picture saying 114 were rescued during their operation on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter)

Rubber dinghy carrying migrants sinks off Libya

The coastguard would only confirm that a merchant ship had gone to the aid of the stricken dinghy and that 15 people had...

15 Nov 2016 9:05 PM IST

SIkh Kirpan. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Italian apex court upholds ban on sikh man carrying religious kirpan...

'An attachment to one's own values, even if they are lawful in the country of origin, is intolerable', the court said.

16 May 2017 5:08 PM IST