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Telangana Girls Battle Iron Deficiency

Telangana Girls Battle Iron Deficiency

Amid a fresh spate of food poisoning cases in residential schools, health experts are warning that iron-deficient girls...

4 Aug 2025 11:52 PM IST

Following a decision of the state cabinet, the police are now booking men who married girls aged below 14, under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and those who married girls aged between 14 and 18 under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. (Representational image)

DC Edit | Child marriages: Bring awareness

The Assam government has been on a mission in cracking down on child marriages. Following a decision of the state...

8 Feb 2023 12:35 AM IST

A doctor checks a woman at a Basti Dawakhana. (DC file photo)

Weighty worry: TS people grow more obese

Obesity among urban women is at 41.7 per cent, even higher than men

9 May 2022 1:37 AM IST