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Year after demonetisation: Cash remains king in Goa ahead of tourist season

If sales do not pick up, many may have to cut down on staff, as many restaurants did last year

Budget 2018: Highest funding to MGNREGA in 2017, yet 56% wages were delayed

Delayed wages accounted for 56% of all MGNREGA wage payments in 2016-17, up from 39% in 2012-13

Budget 2018: Has Modi govt delivered on its promise of urban development?

BJP govt faces this situation as it heads into its last full budget before general elections in 2019

Budget 2018: Despite record harvests in 2017, why farmers still struggle

Budget 2018: Despite record harvest, why are 600 million Indians struggling to get by

Are you among India's wealthiest? Be careful, you may have hypertension

Hypertension is responsible for at least 45% of deaths due to heart disease and 51% of deaths due to stroke globally, according to WHO

Educating girls for 12 yrs can reduce India's population spiral: Here's how

If a woman studies for 12 years or more, she has an average of 2.01 children, compared to 2.2 for all women and 3.82 for women with no education

Gujarat Assembly has fewer women MLAs in 2017 than in 2012, says study

Among all the states, Haryana has the highest proportion of women MLAs as they comprise 14.4 per cent (13) of the 90 member Assembly

GST has reduced effective tax payable for all sectors, except power: Study

At 23.2%, the transport sector saw the largest drop in the marginal tax rate. At 0.9%, agriculture saw the lowest drop

Think global warming isn't real? 'Indian summers may last 8 months by 2070'

The poor, those with outdoor jobs, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions are likely to be the most vulnerable

Aadhaar could be a single target for cyber criminals: RBI researchers

A recent investigation alleged that unrestricted access to details of over one billion Aadhaar numbers can be purchased at as little as Rs 500

US security aid to Pak down 62% over 5 yrs. Will the $1.1 bn fund cut hurt?

Pakistan received over $32 billion in the form of US security aid, economic aid and Coalition Support Funds (CSF) over 15 years.

Rural debt, distress, death to be in focus as 8 states go to polls in 2018

A key manifestation of farm distress is rising rate at which farmers are committing suicides and its association with their inability to repay loans

Six factors that could reduce malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh has 6.6% of the country's child population under the age of five years, children who will makeup 158.7 million of India's demographic dividend

What Surat can teach other cities about public health

Once infamous for its filth and the plague outbreak, Surat has now become a leader in sanitation and public health

Indians care deeply about privacy of personal data, shows new study

Many interviewees recognised their inability to understand terms of data sharing by service providers and wanted more visual forms of consent that they could easily understand

India's crime capital: Delhi sees most murders, rapes, abductions in 2016

Delhi had most cases of cruelty by husband or his relatives (3,645)

After new rare diseases policy, govt incentives needed for finding cures

Medical experts say India also needs an orphan drug policy to provide incentives to pharmaceutical companies to innovate and manufacture drugs for rare diseases

Five years since Nirbhaya: Still no support or justice for rape survivors

Despite the change in law, rape survivors still suffer humiliation at police stations and hospitals, said the report released by the international non-profit Human Rights Watch

Year after note ban, no jobs for educated or illiterate in Delhi textiles

Many workers opened bank accounts after demonetisation but with no jobs, there's no money to put in

Why a flower farmer cannot join the cashless economy, a year after note ban

Traders say farmers still want them to pay cash because the amount is usually too small