Students question 'hire and fire' policy at TISS

NCP President and former Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that NCP isn’t satisfied with the loan waiver announced by the state government, but has decided to cooperate with them for taking the first step. Addressing a press ...

Far away from the front pages and the TV screens of national media, a rights movement is silently progressing in Madhya Pradesh. Thousands of residents of the Narmada Valley are protesting against the administration's attempts to close the gates of the Sardar ...

Almost 81 lakh Indians quit tobacco in the last seven years, showcasing the impact of anti-tobacco campaigns. The campaigns, however, had only a limited reach among the people from a poor socio-economic background as khaini (smokeless tobacco) and bidi ...

The prevalence of tobacco use has gone down by six percentage points from 34.6 per cent of the country's adult population in 2009-10 to 28.6 per cent in 2016-17, a global survey has claimed. The second Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS-2) report pegged that ...

India has produced the world's best plans to tackle issues concerning the public but has been the worst in implementing them, former environment minister Jairam Ramesh said today. He also said public sector companies were the "biggest" rule violators but get ...

Directing officials to ensure that there is no water logging in city, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday approved the setting up of a separate directorate for disaster management in the state. With this decision, the state will soon have separate ...

Anti-trafficking units will now be roped in to look for children who have gone missing and have remained untraceable for over four months. The investigating officers in a district will have to hand over the investigation of the missing child to the ...