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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 3 in 4 Indians in prison are under trial. The average undertrial prisoner is young, often with low levels of education, from a marginalised community ...

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 ...

Mumbai: The average day for 31-year-old Ganga (not her real name) starts at 6 a.m. She cooks and packs food for her children aged six and eight, drops them off at school, and leaves for work. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visakhapatnam: Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose income they cannot afford to lose. They work slower in extreme heat, take unpaid sick days, or stop work entirely when ...