As per a new research, high-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods could be contributing to unwanted weight gain as well.

Diabetes is now considered an emerging global epidemic with the disease making a steep rise in the number of cases worldwide.

Latest figures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 indicates obesity may be the next major health challenge in the country.

An environmental NGO has advocated adopting long-term and area-specific approach to curb pollution while lauding the Railways' roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro) services to carry loaded trucks on waggons t

As per latest ranking of 50 large cities in hearing loss and urban noise pollution, urban areas such as New Delhi Guangzhou, Cairo and Istanbul-topped the list of cities where hearing was most degr

India's air quality deteriorated faster than ever over the five years to 2015, compared to the period before 2010, according to the State of Global Air 2017 report, recently released by the US-base

Since its inception Google has been serving mankind - right from the simplest things to the most complex tasks of finding facts and details of specific subjects.

Scientists have warned that oxygen content in the world's oceans has decreased by more than two per cent since 1960, putting marine life at high risk of devastating consequences.

With 2016 being declared as the hottest year on record, the dangers of global warming on the world loom larger than ever.

New Delhi: Time and again, we are confronted with massive changes around the world that bear testimony to the haunting impact of the ever-changing climate.