The government has increased the income ceiling a month a household for housing loans from the existing Rs. 3,300 to…

Not a quota within quota but a commitment to social justice and a proactive offer to field women from the…

Once India sold poverty to foreigners; now it’s being asked to export its top anti-poverty scheme. Five foreign governments have…

The Sample Registration Survey (SRS)-2008 puts the Infant Mortality Rate in Madhya Pradesh at 70/1000 live births. The total number…

Vedanta Aluminium has violated forest conservation guidelines and failed to follow the Forest Rights Act in letter and in spirit…

International scientists, who are part of a review panel on Bt brinjal organised by civil society activists, recently found themselves…

Machineries available for redressal of grievance underutilised, it says  Work of gendering institutions, workplaces yet to be undertaken The study…

A group comprising 24 development journalists from 21 countries of Asia, Africa and South America visited the Centre for Community…

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora inaugurated the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen LPG Vitarak Yojana as a national scheme…

People in the southern state of Kerala are the heaviest drinkers in India, and sales of alcohol are rising fast.…

Even as women agriculturalists form more than half of the total global population involved in farming it is actually the…

It may still happen. If the Women’s Reservation Bill – which was tabled in the Rajya Sabha yesterday amidst chaos…

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the…

After ghost employees, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is being haunted by ghost pensioners. According to the civic agency,…

The lesson from the rest of the world is that seat reservation for women to merely increase their representation in…