Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) started a survey of its 40-odd markets a few weeks back to find ways to introduce maintenance fees, officials of the civic body said. Shop owners at these markets ...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday told Parliament that a review of the standard operating procedures for operations, maintenance and inspections of missile systems was being conducted in the w...

Politics, the cynic scoffs, is a hydra-headed creature. It is perhaps natural, then, that India’s ruling party and its leaders would be infamous on account of their double-facedness. Take the ca...

The women and child development ministry will soon notify a mechanism to deal with inter-country adoptions under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, bridging a legislative gap in this 1956 law wi...

India is now in its 75th year as an independent nation. This would be the right time to examine the lives of those who have aged along with the country. The results of this assessment can be found in ...

Aaji, 69 years old, leaned over my doctor’s desk to elaborate on why she visits the clinic alone. She had four sons, two daughters, and one goat. The sons would rotate her amongst themselves, ir...

HelpAge India, Agewell Foundation, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI) ...

Is a long life necessarily a fulfilling one? This is a key question arising out of the findings of India’s maiden longitudinal ageing study, the world’s largest-ever detailed survey conduc...

Odisha government employees will now be penalised if they resort to strikes threatening the safety and security of the people. The Odisha Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) Amendment Bill, 202...

The first leg of the East-West Metro connecting Sector V with Howrah Maidan has hit a staffing hurdle after breaking through multiple land logjams to reach the commissioning stage.Kolkata Metro Rail C...