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 ...

Methane is an odourless gas, but coupled with other landfill gases, it adds to local pollution, contributes to health issues and is also susceptible to fires. The residents of areas near the ...

Pune: Indian prisons have a capacity of about 450,000 inmates, but at the end of 2024, the country’s prison population stood at 511,000, or 13% over capacity, according to data from the Prisons ...

Hyderabad: When the Covid-19 lockdowns stopped migrant workers in their tracks, with little money, work or means to go back home, governments of destination states struggled to figure out how many ...

Pune: Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate faulty machinery leading to accidents and ...

Pune: India registered 187,702 crimes against children in 2024, or 512 on average every day, the highest in the last 10 years, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Cases doubled ...

New Delhi: Parveena Khatun, 45, runs a tea stall on Baba Gangnath Marg in Delhi’s Munirka. The shortage of cooking gas cylinders has affected Parveena’s income. “Yesterday afternoon,” said Parveena, ...

Mumbai: Summer is under way and heat waves are being reported in many parts of the country already. The 16th Finance Commission has recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. The ...