Australia’s deadliest floods in years kill 4, leave 50,000 stranded in crisisAustralia grapples with severe floods in New South Wales. Relentless rains submerge towns, causing deaths and isolating residents. Emergenc...
23 May, 2025, 07.21 AM IST
Clay walls, check dams and neem leaves: Rural India fights extreme heat with age-old wisdomAs India faces intense summers, rural communities in heatwave-prone states are employing traditional methods for resilience. Villagers are ...
12 May, 2025, 09.50 AM IST
Dharavi Project: Maharashtra allows Adani to build houses for slum project-hit people on Mumbai salt pan landMumbai Cabinet approves using 255 acres of salt pan land for slum rehabilitation, with Adani group managing the project. Other key decision...
02 Oct, 2024, 11.13 AM IST
Ukraine's utilities threatened by Russia in war's new phaseThis is what the latest phase of Russia's nearly 8-month-old war in Ukraine looks like. Moscow has openly declared its intention to increas...
20 Oct, 2022, 04.35 PM IST
UP govt notifies rules for setting up fund to run cow sheltersAccording to an official release, the fund will help in implementation of different developmental schemes relating to cow conservation.
02 Jun, 2019, 04.36 PM IST
Will jobs actually be top of mind when India casts its vote in this Lok Sabha elections?ET Magazine reporters travelled to trade and industry hubs across the country to find out.
31 Mar, 2019, 02.55 PM IST
No disguise, state budgets too focused on Lok Sabha electionAcross states, the spotlight is on three segments—farmers, unemployed youth and women.
11 Feb, 2019, 06.52 AM IST
UP to impose 0.5% ‘gau raksha’ cess to protect stray cattleIn the past week, there have been at least three incidents of farmers locking up stray cattle in schools and police stations in the state t...
02 Jan, 2019, 09.46 AM IST
For ‘Smart’ Kashi, high-quality cow shelter planned“Varanasi performs poorly in city liveability index and infrastructure services,” says a VSCL document, which was reviewed by ET. “One of t...
08 Jan, 2018, 08.01 AM IST
Mumbai: A city brought to its knees by the burden of its successDrastic and rapid measures may be needed to rescue four key business hubs in Mumbai that are suffering the consequences of unchecked expans...
08 Oct, 2017, 02.21 PM IST
Keep national security in mind while taking a call on Rohingyas: RSS chief"We have been facing the problem of illegal Bangladeshi migrants and now Rohingyas have infiltrated into our country," Bhagwat said while a...
30 Sep, 2017, 01.32 PM IST
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: How Indore took on dirt - and wonArmed with nothing but a tin box with some loose change, young volunteers would make a noise as a warning to those relieving themselves in ...
04 Jun, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
Narendra Modi's electricity push fails to light rural IndiaPower shortages cost India the equivalent of about 7% of gross domestic product, the World Bank said in 2010, when the country witnessed su...
25 Jan, 2017, 02.12 PM IST
In Gujarat, dead cows are not mere carcasses but a Rs 1,200-crore businessEverything that comes from a dead cow is used: The meat is consumed, the leather is sold to the industry, so are bones and hooves.
17 Aug, 2016, 06.19 AM IST
Modi Sarkar@2: How Modi's ministers are working on critical mandates of economic strategy and national securityEven as PM and his powerful colleagues in the cabinet are working tirelessly, some of the eager beavers have got cracking relatively silent...
15 May, 2016, 03.11 PM IST
Haryana's skewed sex ratio is a grave concern for us: CM, Manohar Lal KhattarKhap panchayats are social organisations. They are social groups. If some social evil is contained because of khaps, I see no wrong in that...
23 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST