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By Melissa ArulappanA first-person account of a mother who struggled to get her daughter back home from the US because she didn’t want to leave her ‘emotional support animal’ behind Every story has a beginning and an end. I don’t know where my story begins and whether it will have an end. Earlier this year, our daughter, then a freshman in a college in the USA got herself an Emotional Support Animal (ESA), a little chihuahua-terrier mix. An ‘emotional support animal’ — its validity needs to be endorsed by a licensed healthcare or mental health professional — is an animal companion that provides comfort/support to someone suffering from a mental or emotional disability like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety or a phobia. Keya, who suffers from anxiety, has benefitted immensely from having Finn. Indeed, I don’t believe she would have been able to go through the last few months of uncertainty without Finn by her … [Read more...] about MORE THAN A PET

United received a $3.5 billion federal grant and a $1.5 billion loan to keep employees on the payroll as part of a program to stabilize employment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the provisions of the program, airlines can't furlough workers until Oct 1. … [Read more...] about United says it may lay off 36,000 employees

Natasha Fyles, the NT Health Minister, said on Friday that the marine had returned a positive test while serving a mandatory two-week quarantine period at the Australian Defence Force (ADF) facility in Darwin after arriving in the NT "a few days ago" as part of the annual Marine Rotational Force. … [Read more...] about US marine deployed in Australia’s Northern Territory tests positive for COVID-19

"At first it was challenging. I was used to dressing up and going to an office for an 8 am to 5 pm job and selling groceries looked like I was stooping low. However having come from the aviation industry, I was aware that people in much more prestigious positions like pilots and air hostesses had lost their jobs and in a time of crisis, you have to work with what you have," she added. … [Read more...] about Beating the odds to survive the pandemic

An unusual but necessary and apt (given the times) activity has emerged the source of the most work in the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojna, the ambitious jobs-for-migrants scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 20 -- the laying of optic fibre cables. Read more … [Read more...] about News updates from Hindustan Times: Vikas Dubey encounter brings politics-crime link under lens and all the latest news