Nepal rescues over 1200 tourists as coronavirus lockdown continues March 29, 2020 at 08:28PM

Authorities here have rescued over 12,00 tourists, who were stranded in various parts of the Hmalayan country after a nationwide lockdown was imposed last week to contain the COVID-19 spread which has infected five people in Nepal so far.

'Tell PM Modi to send us money': Kamathipura sex workers struggle to survive amid... March 29, 2020 at 06:42PM

It is late afternoon and still no customer has turned up at her door in Kamathipura, infamous as the flesh trade district of Mumbai. This is the eighth day that sex worker Soni, 49, has not got a single “kastamber” (customer), as she pronounces it.

Take a virtual trip to see the blooming Sakura in Japan this Spring March 29, 2020 at 12:15AM

The pinkish, sometimes white Sakura blossoms embody Japanese philosophies of Wabi-Sabi and even Shinto ideas of impermanence, hope and renewal.