Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coronavirus restrictions sent migrant workers fleeing.... To get them home, the government offered special trains.... His older brother, Prafulla, clattered in behind, dragging a plastic suitcase packed with pencils, toys, lipstick for his wife and 13 dresses for his girls.“ You really think we should be doing this?...

The Jharkhand Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill that provides for 75 per cent reservation to locals in jobs with salaries up to Rs 40, 000 a month in the private sector amid uproarious scenes. Once the Jharkhand State Employment of Local Candidates in Private Sector Bill, 2021, is enacted, Jharkhand will become the third state in the country after Andhra Pradesh and Haryana having a law providing for reservation in private sector jobs for local residents. The bill was earlier cleared by a sele

Few critics or historians have been so central to the performing arts as Sunil Kothari was to the world of Indian traditional dance.... Three weeks earlier he had announced on social media that he was ill from Covid-19 but was recovering.... Soon after he was released, he suffered cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital.Mr....

Last year tourism brought in more than$ 2 billion to Nepal, one of Asia’s poorest nations, and employed a million people, from porters to pilots. The pandemic has stopped all of that. The trails snaking through the Himalayas are deserted, including those leading up to Everest Base Camp.... An unknown number may die out of sight and undetected. The economic wreckage is easier to see.... Hotels and the teahouses clinging to the sides of mountains are boarded up....