20.32% parents felt their children learnt how to manage their own feelings better with support of adults as compared to before, with a 15.4...

The 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...

Women civil servants and police at Centre, state and local levels are managing and enforcing the lockdown but also overseeing necessary rel...

While rivals claim that Shetty will retain the seat without much trouble, they are evidently dazed by Matondkar’s high-pitched, media-fuell...

Ahead of the polls, ASCI has come out with several suggestions under 'Right to Safe Sanitation for All and At All Times'.

Devinder is the first to go to college from his family and is taking all the precautions not to fall sick this monsoon.

The region also has the highest concentration of higher educational institutions, especially professional ones, drawn by the large urban an...

In India, 80% women come under house arrest for this common occurrence, because brands in the market are at price points affordable only to...

Mohammad 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...

First time adopters like these have led to a spike in business for portable sanitation companies, a year after the cleanliness campaign was...

Open defecation, India accounts for 60% of open defecations in the world, poses health and environmental risks. It should end, millennium d...

Divided 12 years apart, Somnath was the launchpad of Advani's Rath Yatra in 1990; and in 2002, communal violence sparked off from Godhra.

It 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...

In the last five years, Mayawati has pumped over Rs one lakh crore into various schemes, particularly for dalits and the marginalized.

Even before Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' made Mumbai slums a lucrative option for filmmakers, a new crop of directors in Bollywood h...

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 ...