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: Fewer Indian children are now short for their age. However, nearly two in five children continue to have ...

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 ...

New Delhi: For the first time ever, a government survey in India asked its people if they have ever used the internet. The question was part of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), the data ...

"When we asked persons from the community to send us their bank account details, to forward to the government, around 80% told us that they have no bank accounts," said Tinesh Chopade, advocacy ...

Anita and her husband farm about 25 kani (roughly 10 acres) and run a roadside tea stall, but most of her waking hours are spent on water. The 40-year-old who lives in Rajadhan Para (village) in ...

Noida: This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of ...

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 ...

Nayagarh: For 45-year-old Durjyadhana Jani, a resident of a tiny hamlet, Raisar, about 150 km west of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, the last three years have been a déjà vu of sorts. As a child, he ...