Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, new from Penn Press. Geltner's book provides a critical...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures enacted to combat its spread have upended our lives in countless ways. For authors publishing scholarly books this spring (and quite possibly beyond), a pressing question has emerged: how on earth am...

Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa. Drawing on extended...

During times such as these, eager designers and creatives can’t help but see opportunities for improvement.

Air India's pilot unions IPG and ICPA has urged Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to "urgently" provide financial support to the national carrier amid private airlines' cry for a bailout package in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Quality of forecasts as meteorological information from aeroplanes has fallen up to 90%.

With his cricketing career behind him, Harbhajan Singh is all set to make his movie debut.

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Twenty-one billboards dotted around the UNESCO World Heritage city of Vilnius feature photographs of men, women and children wearing masks as part of a ‘Mask Fashion Week’.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday expressed gratitude to policemen in the frontline in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak by keeping the state police logo as the display picture or DP of his social media accounts.

Two months after Karnataka registered its first COVID-19 positive case, the state completed one lakh-test milestone on Friday, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Saturday.

Dharavi area of Mumbai reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday which included one death. The total coronavirus cases in the locality now stands at 833 which includes 27 deaths.

The number of active cases of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh went up to 1,800 on Saturday, while nearly 1,400 people have been discharged so far, a senior official said. Principal Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said the national recovery percentage was 30 per cent but the figure was 43 per cent in Uttar Pradesh.

The firm has initiated sanitisation of the plant and its surroundings

Uber reported it had seen encouraging signs in markets hit by the pandemic and posted a 14% rise in revenue for the first quarter, supported by a jump in food-delivery orders at its Uber Eats business

Export growth started declining in February and turned negative in March, at -23.24 per cent

With demand from industrial, commercial and transportation down, the hit on volumes is expected to be higher for the June quarter

In a Q&A, Brian Humphries says his firm has handled the ransomware attack well and doesn't see any impact on client engagement

Among verticals, the highest growth in revenue during the quarter came from communications, media and technology, which grew 5.2 per cent to $626 million

Recently, while 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals facility in Ahmedabad tested positive for Covid-19, one person at Sun Pharma's Halol plant tested positive.

Had it not been for Covid-19 impact, the company would have reported a sharp 80 per cent year-on-year jump in its pre-tax profit to Rs 692 core.

The cooperative model in India went out of the way to protect milk producers

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021

Excluding covid-19 related provisions, the profit after tax of the bank would have been Rs 3,260 crore

A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.

It needs swift, sensible attention, writes Nikita Puri

The small city state has benefited from lessons learned after it was the epicentre of the SARS epidemic, keeping infections to less than 1,000, writes Rahul Jacob

Overseas and here, auction houses are capitalising on the fact that collectors are stuck at home - and are online.

Ask a daughter who lost her father and has to grieve in isolation. Why? Because the pandemic upended grief as we know it

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