Urban Life

India's top metros double urban footprint in 30 yrs; Pune, Bengaluru lead

A new report shows India's biggest cities have grown fast in 30 years, with Pune and Bengaluru leading the way as they add new homes, offices, roads and become key growth centres

Updated On: 10 Sep 2025 | 5:03 PM IST

Househelp in 10 minutes? Q-com model to the rescue for domestic chores

The instant househelp service offers a way to formalisation in the sector, the second highest employer after agriculture, by providing skills, insurance, and guaranteed pay

Updated On: 30 Apr 2025 | 4:42 PM IST

Urban jobless rate reaches four quarter high in Q4FY24: PLFS data

Previously, the jobless rate in urban areas has been steadily declining since the high of 12.6 per cent reported during the April-June quarter of FY22 during the peak of the pandemic

Updated On: 15 May 2024 | 11:50 PM IST

Urban Company launches policy to support service partners facing abuse

The company said it would also release a series of videos to raise awareness about domestic violence and abuse, and how its service professionals can report it

Updated On: 06 Feb 2024 | 6:08 PM IST

Weak rural demand drags down FMCG sales in September, shows data

Bizom pointed out that rural sales were impacted in September due to excessive rainfall in some areas and weak rainfall in some other regions, thereby affecting agri yields and household incomes

Updated On: 04 Oct 2022 | 11:31 PM IST

What makes an area urban?

The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves

Updated On: 23 Jun 2022 | 2:18 AM IST

Making urban MNREGA workable: A question of getting the structure right

The urban population is more educated and generally has a different set of job preferences than the rural

Updated On: 01 Jun 2022 | 3:38 PM IST

Joblessness a bigger worry of urban Indians than Covid-19: Survey

Despite unemployment being their biggest worry, 68 per cent urban Indians are optimistic that the country is moving in the right direction

Updated On: 25 Feb 2021 | 11:46 PM IST

How a 20-yr-old in Bhopal is bringing nature closer to urban living spaces

Paradise Gardens has completed 100 such projects so far in the past one year

Updated On: 21 Mar 2020 | 11:41 PM IST

These designers and citizens offer solutions to your urban living problems

A group of designers and active citizens in Goa attempts to work out solutions to problems of urban living

Updated On: 08 Feb 2020 | 12:29 AM IST

The urban-rural culture clash

Urban lives are the opposite of rural ones, especially when it comes to evenings out

Updated On: 22 Nov 2019 | 9:04 PM IST

Contemporary urban life: Let cities speak

Noise is everywhere. We live with it, inside and outside our homes

Updated On: 22 May 2017 | 1:18 PM IST