Kolkata

Sweet coronavirus treat for bitter lockdown time

8:32 pm April 6, 2020

Kolkata: COVID-19 has taken away everything we had our freedom, our peace of mind and even our lives. Now, the time has come to take revenge on the coronavirus by digesting it, literally. A renowned chain of sweet makers in Kolkata has come up with a ‘sandesh’ shaped in the form of novel coronavirus a […]

CNI churches to live-stream special worship sessions

6:43 pm April 4, 2020

Kolkata: With public gatherings banned due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Church of North India (Diocese of Kolkata) has decided to go for live-streaming so that members of the community can join from home the special worship sessions, lined up till Good Friday and Easter. The CNI has decided on webcasting live-services during the Holy […]

Another COVID-19 patient dies in Bengal, death count 2

10:15 am March 30, 2020

Kolkata: A woman infected with the coronavirus died at a state-run hospital in north Bengal on Monday, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal to two, hospital sources said. The 44-year-old woman from Kalimpong in Darjeeling district breathed her last around 2 am at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, where […]

Pune: Sex workers seek to resume work with caution, SOPs

Sex workers face uncertain future in COVID-19 time

10:24 pm March 27, 2020

Kolkata: More than one lakh sex workers of Sonagachi in north Kolkata, Asia’s largest red light area, are now staring at an uncertain future and possible starvation as the COVID-19 outbreak has thrown them out of business. The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an umbrella organisation of the state’s sex workers having over 1,30,000 registered members, […]

Coming home and staying there in COVID-19 times

8:20 pm March 23, 2020

New Delhi: Sweeping, swabbing, cooking, washing and more me time than ever imagined. With large parts of the country shutting down to ward against COVID-19, it is back to the basics and recalibrating life for millions of people, a mere inconvenience for some and a huge challenge for the elderly. The unprecedented lockdown of cities […]