In punishing geography with connectivity nearly cut for five months a year, TB elimination took “remarkably simple things ...

More than a quarter of India’s men and women are now overweight or obese. Experts point to changing diets, nutrition and ...

Textile parks under a two-decade-old scheme have not met their investment and employment generation targets, audits have ...

While some increase is expected with improved access to emergency care, experts say coercion and commercialisation are to ...

Mumbai: “The women of the One Stop Centre gave me my life back,” says Pallavi Sharma, a survivor of domestic violence. During her five-year marriage, her husband and in-laws verbally and physically ...

New Delhi: How have successive Union governments managed the country’s finances? Over 20 years since the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act was passed, and ahead of the new ...

Various factors have contributed to this crisis in the city. The Urban Water Balance Report for Bengaluru, released by WELL Labs, a city-based research organisation, highlights some of these concerns.

Barak Valley, Assam: The sun took a long time to shine on March 31, 2024. By afternoon, the slowly warming rays melted the remnants of the hailstorm that blew away swathes of towns and villages across ...

Warning: Images in this story are graphic in nature and might be disturbing for some viewers. Faridabad and Bengaluru: Thirty-seven-year-old Basanti, a migrant worker originally from Rajasthan’s ...

New Delhi: Three in five women surveyed in urban Delhi and Bengaluru said they do not have the skills required to get a well-paying, steady job. Further, 57% said they do not have adequate skills ...

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...