Tag: Urban
Sleep Apnea In Kids May Affect Mental Skills, Behaviour
Children with chronically disrupted sleep are likely to have defects in their brain cells that are associated with mental skills, mood and behaviour, researchers have warned.....
Punjab Announces Reservation For Women, Dumps VIP Culture
The new Punjab Cabinet in its maiden meeting here on Saturday announced reservation for women in jobs and urban and rural local bodies and an end to use of red beacons on official vehicles by the Chief Minister, ministers, legislators and officers. ....
'Amarinder Emerged As A Model For A Dispassionate Biography'
Unlike a politician or a royal, both of which he is, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh does not hold back on sharing information about himself. ....
GDP Up But Job Security Falls: Only 16% Earn Regular Wage
At 19, Dinesh Manjhi is the breadwinner for his family -- three siblings and a 55-year-old mother. But his tryst with adulthood actually began at 12, when his father took him on a 1,500-km journey from their home in Bihar to a farm in Punjab to work as a seasonal worker. This way, he added a valuable extra to what the father saved to bring back home every season.....
Haryana Ex-CM Hooda Booked In Land Allotment Case
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The CBI has registered a case against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for alleged re-allotment of a plot to Associated Journals Limited in Panchkula in 2005, an official said on Thursday.....
DNA Test On River Waters Reveals Fish Diversity
In a first, US scientists have monitored a spring fish migration through DNA tests on water samples, a study said on Wednesday.....
UP Junks Previous Regime's Decision On RERA Regulator, To Restart Process
As the central law Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act 2016 (RERA) came into force across India on Monday, Uttar Pradesh is one of the states which lags behind in setting up a regulatory authority.....
Mobile Internet Users Grow Faster In Rural India
Rural India is growing at a much higher rate -- around 26 per cent -- as compared to the urban areas in terms of mobile internet users, a joint study said on Tuesday.....
25 Years Of World's First Ladies Special Suburban Train
The world's first "Ladies Special" suburban train completed 25 years on Thursday since its maiden run in Mumbai on May 5, 1992.....
Futuristic Trends In Architecture
The Smart City initiative of the Government of India is one of the first of its kind in the country’s history. ....
