Tobacco Quitline helps over 2.3 lakh Indians with quit rate of 34.5% | Delhi News

New Delhi: A tobacco cessation helpline run from Delhi has helped more than 2.3 lakh Indians quit tobacco and handled nearly one crore calls over the past decade, emerging as one of the country’s largest counselling-based public health interventions against nicotine addiction.Operated by Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI), University of Delhi, the National Tobacco Quitline…

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‘Government economists claimed India added 80 million new jobs — but they were in agriculture’

Santosh Mehrotra (File Photo) With 121 million young Indians neither studying nor working, 80 million people having moved back into agriculture between 2020 and 2024 and youth unemployment having tripled since 2012, a new book arrives as a reckoning. Co-authored by development economist Santosh Mehrotra, visiting professor at the University of Bath’s Centre for Development…

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Ipl 2026: LSG IPL 2026 playoff qualification scenarios: Lucknow Super Giants hopes all but gone after six straight losses | Cricket News

Despite a blistering 63 off 21 balls from Nicholas Pooran and a strong partnership, Lucknow Super Giants suffered their sixth consecutive defeat. Their inability to close out games, even after posting a massive 228, has left them virtually out of the IPL 2026 playoff race. With five must-win games remaining, a miraculous recovery is needed….

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Leopard injures 7 in Bahraich village before fleeing into sugarcane fields; search on | Lucknow News

Lucknow: Panic gripped a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district on Friday after a leopard entered a residential area, attacked seven people and fled into nearby sugarcane fields, triggering a massive search operation by the Forest Department and police.The incident occurred around 10 am in Hamidpur Khairatiya village under the Ramgaon police station limits in…

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Dharma Movie: Pankaj Tripathi to appear in a special cameo in Amit Rai’s ‘Dharma’, film features 240 dogs | Hindi Movie News

Director Amit Rai’s upcoming film ‘Dharma’ features child actor Maahi Rai and 240 dogs, celebrating the human-animal bond. Pankaj Tripathi will appear in a special cameo. The film targets families and is eyeing a July 24 release. Director Amit Rai, who gave us ‘Oh My God 2’, is now working on his next film called…

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Diamond Harbour police reopen Nadda convoy attack case after 6 yrs | Kolkata News

Jahangir Khan being paraded by cops Falta: In a decision that will put arrested Trinamool neta Jahangir Khan aka Pushpa in further legal trouble, the Diamond Harbour District Police has re-opened a six-year-old high-profile political assault case on senior national BJP netas for re-investigation.The move comes years after the BJP repeatedly slammed the initial probe,…

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BSF Raj Frontier officers get gallantry medals | Jaipur News

Jaisalmer: Union home and cooperative affairs minister Amit Shah Friday honoured BSF deputy commandant Ravindra Rathore, deployed at the Sriganganagar Sector of BSF Rajasthan Frontier, along with three other BSF personnel and officers, with the gallantry medal at the Border Security Force Investiture Ceremony and Rustamji Memorial Lecture programme in New Delhi. The gallantry medal…

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