'Bhiksha Mukt Bharat': How Modi govt plans to make Ayodhya and other cities across India beggar-freeThe government targets 30 cities for a nationwide survey and rehabilitation effort to eliminate beggary, emphasizing adults, women, and chi...
29 Jan, 2024, 12.00 PM IST
He walked...and the earth turned green: The life and legacy of MS SwaminathanGeneticist MS Swaminathan who led India’s push in the 1960s to become grain surplus, promoting the use of hybrid varieties and chemical fer...
29 Sep, 2023, 06.15 PM IST
- When you can be your better half
While many of us are trying to figure out how such an arrangement has survived the test of time while trying to include people of all sexua...
05 Jun, 2022, 11.20 PM IST
NCUI and India HIV/AIDS Alliance sign MoU to enhance livelihood opportunities of transgender community“It's a historic step in the direction of empowerment of transgender community in India that aims to fulfill the economic, social and cultu...
23 Feb, 2022, 07.33 PM IST
This 'digital' beggar from Bihar accepts alms via e-walletInspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India Campaign, a 40-year-old beggar from Bihar gives people options to pay him alms via...
10 Feb, 2022, 01.20 PM IST
Govt to rehabilitate 20,000 beggars over next five yearsIn a separate response, the minister of state for planning Rao Inderjit Singh said that NITI Aayog has constituted a committee under its me...
08 Dec, 2021, 06.28 PM IST
Ayushman Bharat to cover sex change of transgendersThe ministry of social justice and empowerment will roll out SMILE on October 12. The scheme has two sub schemes - Central Sector Scheme fo...
06 Oct, 2021, 08.55 AM IST
Won't take elitist view of banning beggars from streets, says SC on plea for their rehab amid COVIDA bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah told the counsel appearing for the petitioner that it would not consider one part of the p...
27 Jul, 2021, 12.47 PM IST
Expedite policy on providing ration to poor during pandemic, High Court tells Delhi govtJustice Rekha Palli observation came after the Delhi government, represented by standing counsel Santosh K Tripathi, said its policy to pro...
25 May, 2021, 02.12 PM IST
Shiv Sena asks BJP for ordinance, date for Ram temple constructionWhile slamming the BJP, the Sena said those in power should be proud of Shiv Sainiks who had "destroyed Babur's raj in Ram Janmabhoomi".
23 Nov, 2018, 01.05 PM IST
Better to sell pakodas than be unemployed: Amit Shah says in maiden Rajya Sabha speechBJP president Amit Shah used his first speech in Rajya Sabha to rebut the Opposition's pakoda jibes against PM Narendra Modi
05 Feb, 2018, 07.39 PM IST
If selling 'pakodas' is a job, so is begging: P ChidambaramFormer Finance Minister P Chidambaram, in a series of tweets, said that the government is "clueless" on creating jobs.
29 Jan, 2018, 10.05 AM IST
BCCI is not above God, says angry Sreesanth"Cmon @bcci this is worst u can do to anyone that too who is proven innocent not just once but again and again..don't know why u doing this...
11 Aug, 2017, 05.21 PM IST
Government to train 3,000 beggars to sing paeans to Swachh Bharat, Beti Bachao, other campaigns on local trainsDrafting in beggars is the ministry of information and broadcasting’s latest idea to make the common man more aware of the govt’s signature...
06 Aug, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
Vidarbha farmer's widow Kalavati wants Rahul Gandhi to help her sonsAway from the limelight of Rahul's latest visit to the agrarian crisis-affected Amravati district, 59-year-old Kalavati still remembers the...
30 Apr, 2015, 10.19 PM IST
Goa Su-Raj Party focuses on transgenders' issues in manifestoGSRP, a fourteen-year-old party has so far contested four assembly elections and will be contesting the Lok Sabha polls for the first time ...
12 Mar, 2014, 12.51 PM IST
China's Wen Jiabao bids farewell to people ahead of retirementChina's outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao today bid farewell to Chinese people, thanking them for giving him a chance to serve them and sought th...
06 Mar, 2013, 09.06 PM IST