While the annual monsoon floods in Assam claim hundreds of lives, damage crops, infrastructure and assets, animals too have not been spared

Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh frontier must restart soon while maintaining necessary precautions against COVID-19, including social distancing, as these markets boost the economy, fortify ties among the people of the two neighbouring nations, and also check illegal trades, experts and economists said

Sarada Singha, a 45-year-old chief performer of her Kolkata based circus company, had everything going right for her until the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent nationwide lockdown forced her to become a fish vendor to manage two square meals for her family

A scientist of Tripura University in Agartala, Northeast India, has made a robot from locally available and scrap materials to assist frontline health workers, including doctors, to take care of the coronavirus patients from a distant place

Even as four of the eight northeastern states are free from novel coronavirus and its spread tamed in other four states, authorities have kept a tight vigil on India's borders in the region as threat of the disease spilling over from Bangladesh and Myanmar looms large