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Girl carries dad home in epic bike ride

 Girl carries dad home in epic bike ride

Schoolgirl Jyoti Kumari, who cycled 1,200km from Sikandarpur in Haryana to Darbhanga in Bihar carrying her injured father home, will appear for...

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India backs hydroxychloroquine India's top biomedical research body on Tuesday backed the use of the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine as a...

Kerala jackfruit grower James Joseph gave up his job as a Microsoft director. PHOTOS: AFP

Mr Varghese Tharakkan . PHOTOS: AFP

 Jack of all fruits goes global

Green, spiky and with a strong, sweet smell, the bulky jackfruit has morphed from a backyard nuisance in India's south coast into the meat-...

The toddler and his mother at Bihar's Muzaffarpur railway station; (below) migrant workers and their family members boarding a train in Bhopal. PHOTOS: IANS, EPA

Migrant workers and their family members boarding a train in Bhopal. PHOTOS: IANS, EPA

 Train deaths shock India

A viral video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother at a railway station in Bihar has caused widespread outrage and highlighted one of the...

PHOTOS: FACEBOOK/SHAILAJA

PHOTOS: FACEBOOK/SHAILAJA

 Health Minister not resting easy

V.K. SANTOSH KUMAR Kerala has earned kudos from around the world for its stellar effort in containing the spread of Covid-19. But the state's...