The Union health ministry’s National Family Health Survey 2019-21 has suggested that India’s births-and-deaths recording system registered only 71 per cent of the country’s deaths ov...

Nearly one in five households in India practise open defecation, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-21 released by the health ministry on Thursday, more than two years after th...

The Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Jharkhand has witnessed small or big forest fire incidents around 1,600 times this year, a senior official said. However, there is no report of any damage to wild an...

IIT Guwahati will conduct courses related to drone operations, training, maintenance, data collection and application in various sectors ...

A team of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Sunday inspected the ongoing work around the 12th century Shree Jagannath Temple under the Puri Shri Mandir Heritage Corridor Project. The visit came...

How did Kashmir obtain its name and its Karewas that are vital for saffron cultivation? What role does the Manimahesh Peak play in the marriage rituals of Gaddi tribes in Himachal Pradesh? Why is the ...

Women’s share in the formal workforce fell in the third quarter of 2021-22 while that of contractual workers rose, an official quarterly sample survey of nine key sectors has found. The Quarter...

Members of a parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture on Thursday visited the 12th Century Shree Jagannath Temple and inspected the work around the shrine under the Srimandir...

Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have sighted the Satyr tragopan, a rare bird also known as the crimson-horned pheasant, in the Senchal Wildlife Sanctuary in the Darjeeling hills aft...

A majority of Indians, in 16 cities including Kolkata, admit that they do not know much about the country's history, culture, destinations, nature and food. Many of them are unaware of facts such ...