NEW DELHI: Nearly 188 million children and adolescents worldwide are living with obesity, the World Health Organization (World Health Organization) has warned, calling childhood obesity one of the fastest-growing public health crises driven by unhealthy diets, aggressive food marketing and environments that push junk food over nutritious meals.In its latest global guidelines on preventing obesity,…
File photo: Sharad Pawar with Ajit Pawar NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday made a significant revelation about the future of the Nationalist Congress Party, saying that talks to merge the two rival NCP factions were already under way and had progressed to an advanced stage before the sudden death of his…
Kolkata: A total of 151 fishermen from India and Bangladesh were repatriated to their respective countries as part of a coordinated exchange on Thursday, reports Tamaghna Banerjee.Twenty-three Indian fishermen and two Indian fishing boats were released by Bangladesh, and 128 Bangladeshi fishermen along with five fishing boats were freed by India, officials said. The mutual…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out early Saturday in Dolgam area of J&K, after security forces re-established contact with terrorists. The area was cordoned off as Operation Trashi-I entered day 14.“During the ongoing joint Operation TRASHI-I, contact with terrorists was re-established in the early hours of 31 Jan 2026, in…
New Delhi: Supreme Court has said offering of prayers by Muslims at premises not included on the list of auqaf cannot give it the character of a mosque and ruled unless the mosque stood over waqf land, waqf tribunal could not entertain a suit to declare the place a mosque.The ground floor of an apartment…
New Delhi: Delhi high court on Friday questioned the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) over the “indefinite” relaxation granted to airlines on implementing the new regulations governing pilots’ weekly rest and leave, reports Abhinav Garg.Hearing a PIL that raised the issue, a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia sought…
New Delhi: A day after Supreme Court stayed UGC’s Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026, the education ministry began examining on Friday the removal of the “false complaints” clause that featured in the 2025 draft but was dropped from the final notified rules.Those from the general category have argued that in the…
New Delhi: As the March 31, 2026 deadline for making the country “Naxal-free” approaches, security forces are in the final leg of intelligence-based operations to get the remaining ‘Big Four’ of the CPI(Maoist) leadership — three politburo-cum-central committee members and one central committee member — and an estimated “300-350 regular, uniformed cadres of concern” still…
New Delhi: Bringing the right of access to menstrual hygiene and gender-segregated toilets within the ambit of fundamental rights, Supreme Court directed states and Union territories on Friday to provide free sanitary napkins to adolescent girls in all govt and private schools and also construct separate toilets for them on campus.In a judgment jointly authored…
New Delhi: Russian state-run atomic energy corporation Rosatom, during the India Energy Week in Goa, presented an integrated proposal for large power units and small modular reactors (SMRs), including floating power units — a unique Russian technology for countries like India with long coastlines and developed island territories.Rosatom also presented a comprehensive approach to solving…
