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Maharashtra cabinet gives green light to 800-km Shaktipeeth ExpresswayThe Maharashtra cabinet has sanctioned Rs 20,787 crore for the 'Maharashtra Shaktipeeth Expressway,' an 802-km project linking eastern Maha...
5 Indian schools on shortlist for World's Best School Prizes 2024Five Indian schools are in the top 10 shortlists for the annual World's Best School Prizes in the UK, organized by T4 Education. Vikas Pota...
BJP turns up heat on Trinamool veteran, Sudip BandopadhyayThe All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) veteran Sudip Bandopadhyay is set to face the party's former MLA Tapas Roy in the Kolkata North con...
Fewer parents in urban slums of Delhi feel girls should repress their anger: Sesame Workshop India Study20.32% parents felt their children learnt how to manage their own feelings better with support of adults as compared to before, with a 15.4...
67% girls in urban slums didn't attend online classes during first lockdown: ReportThe study by NGO "Save The Children" in February last year also found that 68 per cent of girls, aged between 10 and 18 years, faced challe...
Covid fight needs women to be agents of changeWomen civil servants and police at Centre, state and local levels are managing and enforcing the lockdown but also overseeing necessary rel...
After interval, 90s star Urmila Matondkar essays role of ‘aam aadmi’While rivals claim that Shetty will retain the seat without much trouble, they are evidently dazed by Matondkar’s high-pitched, media-fuell...
Include safe sanitation issues in poll manifestos: ASCIAhead of the polls, ASCI has come out with several suggestions under 'Right to Safe Sanitation for All and At All Times'.
India struggles to stay cool amidst global warming: Report
Labourer's son, porter's daughter from slums bag seats in DUDevinder is the first to go to college from his family and is taking all the precautions not to fall sick this monsoon.
Uttar Pradesh's electoral battle royale kicks off in its western regionThe region also has the highest concentration of higher educational institutions, especially professional ones, drawn by the large urban an...
Menstrual hygiene makers like Aakar Innovations, Saral Designs signal emergence of local brandsIn India, 80% women come under house arrest for this common occurrence, because brands in the market are at price points affordable only to...
My child would have been alive had officials shown some generosity, says fatherMohammad Anwar sat by his wife, who had entered a state of stupor since the couple lost their six-month-old child, whom they had lovingly n...
Swachh Bharat fires up portable loos businessFirst time adopters like these have led to a spike in business for portable sanitation companies, a year after the cleanliness campaign was...
Get going with the Nirmal Gram YojanaOpen defecation, India accounts for 60% of open defecations in the world, poses health and environmental risks. It should end, millennium d...
Godhra and Somnath remain caught in 12-year time warpDivided 12 years apart, Somnath was the launchpad of Advani's Rath Yatra in 1990; and in 2002, communal violence sparked off from Godhra.
US second lady Jill Biden visits slum dwellers in AgraIt was a memorable day for the slum dwellers of Kachchpura near the Taj Mahal here as they had a VIP visitor -- US second lady Jill Biden w...
- How dalits have actually fared in Uttar Pradesh
In the last five years, Mayawati has pumped over Rs one lakh crore into various schemes, particularly for dalits and the marginalized.
- Urban India lures Bollywood, global audience
Even before Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' made Mumbai slums a lucrative option for filmmakers, a new crop of directors in Bollywood h...
- Delhi gets Rs 2360 crore in budget ahead of C'wealth Games
As the national capital gears up to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi has been allocated a whopping Rs 2360 crore, an increase of Rs ...