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NEW DELHI: Two Tata Steel subsidiaries were sued for $1.6 billion by an NGO in the Netherlands for alleged adverse health and environmental impacts from its steel plant in the Dutch village of Velsen-Noord.In a regulatory filing, Tata Steel said that Stichting Frisse Wind.nu (SFW) filed a case before a court in North Holland against…
NEW DELHI: India faces a lower risk of AI-driven disruption to cognitive jobs compared to Western economies, IT secretary S Krishnan has said, citing the country’s relatively lower proportion of white-collar roles in the overall workforce, and highlighted that the dominance of Stem-based employment can yield newer opportunities.Krishnan said AI’s real impact will come from…
Pickled vegetables have been one of the most important parts of diets from many parts of the world, especially in East Asia. People love them not only for their sour flavour but also because they can be stored for a long period of time. However, over the last few decades, questions regarding the potential association…
Health experts are now looking beyond the scale, placing greater importance on waist size for women’s health assessments. A waist measurement of over 35 inches can serve as a warning sign for potential heart disease, diabetes, and hormonal imbalances that often arise after menopause. Waist size is not about fashion or beauty standards. It is…
NEW DELHI: Disrupted sleep, rising stress levels and central obesity are emerging as major drivers of India’s growing breast cancer burden, which is projected to rise by 5.6% annually and add nearly 50,000 new cases every year, according to a major new study by the ICMR-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research.The systematic review and…
Aamir Khan, Bollywood’s ‘Mr Perfectionist’, has carved a unique path over 25 years, marked by groundbreaking blockbusters like ‘Dangal’ and ‘3 Idiots’, alongside notable flops. His career, a blend of artistic risks and commercial success, showcases a filmmaker’s vision within an actor’s persona. Despite recent setbacks, his influence as a content driver remains significant. For…
MUMBAI: A new report warns that proposed changes to housing data collection risk overcorrecting an implementation problem rather than fixing a design flaw. Critiquing the govt’s plan to shift to monthly rent surveys, the authors say the move amounts to “throwing the baby out with the bathwater,” based on a flawed diagnosis and an unnecessarily…
Aravalli: Mountain older than memory If demography can be a dividend, geography certainly decides its destiny. Few landscapes illustrate this more clearly than the Aravalli Range, an ancient chain of hills that quietly shapes water security, climate, and life across western and northwestern India.The hills that run for nearly 690 km from Gujarat through Rajasthan…
MUMBAI: The central board of Reserve Bank of India has approved a proposal to move to a risk-based pricing system for deposit insurance, marking a shift from the uniform premium currently charged to banks under the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) scheme.Announcing the banking reform measures alongside the monetary policy decision in Oct,…
According to a January 2025 report published in the Kashmir Observer, doctors in Kashmir issued warnings about the dangers of using unvented gas heaters in closed spaces, noting that toxic combustion byproducts like carbon monoxide can accumulate silently and pose a deadly risk, especially while sleeping.This is a major issue in fuel-burning heaters. Such heaters…
