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Noida: The latest case of the wife of an IRS officer ending her life over alleged dowry demands and mental torture and the spate of suicides being witnessed over the past one year in Gautam Budh Nagar district reflect alarming trends about mental health. As per police data, as many as 380 people have died of suicide over the past one year — throughout 2020 — and of them, around one-third (126) were women while 24 were children and teenagers (aged below 18). An analysis by TOI shows that s...

The NLRB announced today that the unionization effort at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse was resoundingly defeated. Seventy percent of the votes counted opposed SEIU’s effort to...

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It’s a pre-election year, and a populist budget was par for the course. Can the state’s stretched finances bear the weight? 

The private sector will lead India’s second phase of Covid-19 vaccination. What does it mean? Experts opinion is divided. While some say it is an ‘exciting’ development, others warn it could be a ‘disaster in making’. Feb 27, 2021 · 09:00 am A medical worker inoculates a sanitation worker with a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in New Delhi on February 20, 2021. | Prakash Singh/ AFP Starting March 1, India will extend its Covid-19 vaccination drive t...

Odisha on Thursday asked the Centre to allow inclusion of 183 private hospitals in the state as vaccination sites for inoculation of the elderly slate

The basic concept of the Dyson Sphere is straightforward: rather than squander stellar output by permitting it to radiate into space, one can surround the star with a shell to intercept light, thus permitting the energy to be put to use. From the viewpoint of the star system’s inhabitants, this would be a useful source of energy (although any civilization able to turn its planets into a Dyson Sphere would be at most twenty years from commercial controlled fusion). From our Earth perspective (...

Why India’s bullet train project is running late in Maharashtra Why India’s bullet train project is running late in Maharashtra | India Today Insight A proposed terminus in Mumbai faces delay in land acquisition. Maharashtra has acquired only a fourth of the total land required for the project in the state  advertisement Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at a press conference, in Mumbai (Mandar Deodhar) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Spe...

Inaugurating Vikasana Munnetta Yatra, Pinarayi says Keralites want LDF to continue at the helm

While Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman suggested rationalisation of centrally sponsored schemes and central sector schemes, the outlay to these have in fact seen a sharp growth in 2021-22. The number of centrally sponsored schemes have increased to 35 in FY22 from 30 in FY21 and central sector schemes have increased to 704 from 685 in the previous year. The new CSSs include Mission Shakti, Saksham Anganwadi, Poshan 2.0, and Rashtriya Pashudhan Vikash Yojana. “On the recommendation of th...