In roughly the same time, the proportion of India’s men and women, aged between 15 and 49 years, who were overweight or obese increased by about 10 percentage points, according to the sixth round of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Thirty-five-year-old Ritu Bhalla was twice diagnosed with blood cancer, at the ages of four and 11. She developed chronic hepatitis B as a long-term side-effect after cancer ...