When an undiagnosed illness leads to an outbreak, there is a tendency to call it a ‘mystery disease’. Experts say this ...

The human body uses sweat for thermoregulation, but with high humidity, the sweat cannot evaporate, increasing heat stress ...

Bengaluru: The Census is now four years overdue, and the budget for the exercise has been slashed indicating further delays. This is even as millions of Indians are left without access to subsidised ...

Mumbai: The poorest urban Indians face worse health outcomes compared to their rural counterparts, a new study by the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), an independent public policy think ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

Chennai: When Chennai resident Anand Raj and his two siblings decided to construct a three-storeyed home, with an apartment per floor for each sibling, some of their decisions centred around water.

Haryana: Three gunshots were fired, one startlingly close to where Satpal Singh sat in his wheat fields on a foggy December evening. In front of his eyes, lay a bleeding and possibly pregnant nilgai ...