Commuting woes

Public buses, which are the heart of public transport in Kolkata, have almost stopped plying on city roads, creating worries for passengers Asim Bose, who works in a reputed IT firm, travels every day from Shyambazar in North Kolkata to Sector V, Kolkata’s IT hub. During the lockdown, he worked from home for the next few […]

Victims of Nature’s fury

Why lightning strikes are a bigger fear than Covid in Bihar Under the glow of a mobile phone, a relative gathers paperwork for the dead at the Haspura Referral Hospital in south Bihar’s Aurangabad district. That’s how Hindustan, the state’s most-read daily, captured the tragedy of the recent deaths in a lightning strike, through a photograph. […]

Testing times

How do Class 12 students feel about the cancellation of board exams? While some expressed discontent with the decision, others feel it was for the best Taking cognisance of the rapid increase in Coronavirus cases, the CBSE and ICSE boards announced on Thursday that the exams scheduled in July for Classes 10 and 12 would […]

Inventors at works

IIT Delhi’s teams have been working tirelessly to innovate products that can contribute to the fight against Coronavirus From anti-bacterial fabric to cheaper testing kits, IIT Delhi’s teams have been on the job to contribute to the fight against Coronavirus that has overshadowed just about everything else in our world. They have on hand 28 […]

Ban this, too

The banning of diclofenac as a pesticide should have saved the vulture population from extinction but now it is under threat from anti-inflammatory drugs used on animals. A ban on these drugs is urgently needed, say conservationists  If there is one bird that as a child, growing up, you would not want to encounter would […]

Bihari turned Kashmiri

Meet Navin Choudhary, the bureaucrat from Bihar who has become J&K’s first non-local domicile After being interviewed by several news outlets and posing for photographs, a pleasant sense of fatigue was visible on the faces of Vaidehi and Deokant Choudhary at their home in Majhaulia village of Hayaghat block in Bihar’s Darbhanga district. They were […]

The clock stops

It’s the end of TikTok life in Bihar. What’s next? In December 2006, Time magazine declared “You” as the person of the year. This was supposed to be a recognition of sorts for the advent of user-generated content on the internet. In the write-up justifying the choice, Lev Grossman, Times’s lead technology writer at the time, said: “This is an […]

The Corona rebels

A growing number of people in the US don’t support wearing masks to contain the pandemic. This view has its takers in India too, though they are not vocal about it Covid-19 has changed the way we live and perhaps, also the future—which will be a ‘new normal’. But there are some who are not […]