NEW DELHI: India’s battle against lifestyle diseases is intensifying, with the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) revealing a sharp rise in both obesity and high blood sugar levels among adults. Nearly one in three women and more than one in four men are now overweight or obese. The share of adults with elevated blood…

Supreme Court order may hit similar other statutory bodies NEW DELHI: Limiting the power of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), Supreme Court has held that it is a recommendatory and advisory body and does not have the authority to pass an adjudicatory order.Abench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih said the commission…

Gitanjali said the cops have been deciding who “may or may not meet him”. NEW DELHI: Gitanjali J Angmo, Sonam Wangchuk‘s wife, claimed the activist has been under constant vigil, saying “police are everywhere”, be it at the reception, in the lifts or outside the ICU.She said the cops have been deciding who “may or…

NEW DELHI: Amid a growing shift by industrial and commercial consumers to retail fuel stations to take advantage of lower prices, govt has empowered itself to temporarily restrict bulk purchases of petrol and diesel from pumps during periods of supply stress to prevent shortages, hoarding and diversion of supplies meant for ordinary consumers.The petroleum ministry…

It is a piece of cloth, a gesture of respect among Tamil people. But over the years, the melthundu — ‘mel’ meaning upper, ‘thundu’ meaning cloth — has come to mean much more than that. Forbidden at one point for particular communities, later reclaimed as a mark of protest, and now reimagined in party colours,…

‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay’ – Taylor Swift, You Need to Calm DownLast week, two contrasting developments related to the LGBTQ+ community made global headlines. One, in the German city of Munich, Dominik Krause was elected mayor, the first openly gay man to hold a constitutional office in a European country.Second, at the…