Over 90 per cent of the world’s population is breathing poor quality air, an analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed, with air-pollution responsible for over 11 per cent of deaths globally.
In a scathing commentary on the lack of preparedness of Indian lawmakers and agencies in protecting children from the menace of online abuse, a report by UNICEF India released on Thursday said that the police
Army was alerted by the intelligence agencies on September 15 about the presence of a group of eight Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists across the LoC in Pakistan, waiting to infiltrate into Uri with specific plans to hit the Army base.
Delhi, which has the infamous tag of ‘Rape Capital’ attached to it, has the worst working conditions for women, whereas the northeastern state of Sikkim has the best, according to a report.
As many as 95 per cent households in the country are vulnerable to earthquakes in different degrees, BMPTC said in its report.
In 136 years of modern record-keeping, August 2016 was the hottest August, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. August 2016's
The latest report, released by the World Bank on Thursday, shows that India has the second highest number of deaths due to air pollution in 2013 after China. In 2013, air pollution claimed 1.4 million
A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s death made public today concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing the official
The World Risk Index 2016, that ranks 171 countries on their exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards, including earthquakes, floods and storms, has placed India at the 77th position. The ranking for India is places
Islamic State terrorists had “studied” the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and similar “active shooter scenarios” to maximise confusion and casualties before hitting multiple locations in Paris in November, UN member- states have s
A panel formed by the government to look into the issue of bringing all pension products under one regulator is likely to submit its report shortly, a top official of pension watchdog PFRDA said today.
Sister of a National Security Guard (NSG) commander is suspected to be among the 20 people who have disappeared mysteriously from Kerala’s Kasaragod and Palakkad districts and are feared to have joined the Islamic State terror outfit.
New Delhi: India ranks third when it comes to having child brides and still about half of Indian women get married before they turned 18, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). “Adolescents (10-19 years)
New Delhi: India is still perfoming bad on various health indicators, a new report on global nutrition suggested. In terms of of number of children who are stunned under five years of age, anaemia in
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group's alleged leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, reports said on Monday.
Washington:US Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton could have President Barack Obama, who remains popular at end of his eight-year presidency, as a secret weapon in her presidential run, a report said on Sunday. There is
London: Last month was the hottest April on record, according to new data released by NASA, making it the sixth month in a row to have temperatures more than one degree Celsius above the 1951-1980
United Nations :Notwithstanding delays in domestic policy reforms, India's economy is "slowly gaining momentum" and is projected to grow by 7.3 per cent this year, a UN report today forecast. The World Economic Situation and
New Delhi: In India, over 400 people were killed in road accidents every day in 2015 in road accidents, data submitted by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in the Rajya Sabha last week
London: New information retrieved from the laptop of one of the suicide bombers involved in the Brussels terror attack last month has revealed that Britain was also on their hit list. Files from the computer
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