In the week leading up to the National Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 29 October, Caritas India observed Awareness Week on Disaster Prep...
India is
one of the 10 countries in the world with the largest survival divide between
wealthy and poor urban children. It figures in this list with Rwand...
Every
year, lack of political will and funding for crisis kills over three lakh
infants within a day (24 hours) of being born in India, says a recently
r...
'The day is
not far off when India will be known the world over for this important step
towards eradication of hunger, malnutrition and resultant poverty,' as...
Accepting that 'child marriages continue to
take place at some places in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,' and that 'it
is also prevalent in West Bengal,...
The Centre has issued guidelines requiring state governments to
incorporate plans for water conservation and sewage disposal in the master
plans for cities be...
As Anna Hazare's fast entered its eighth day, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh wrote to him, urging to end the stir. Singh promised that his
views on the ...
Aimed at setting up an anti-corruption watchdog, the much debated
Lokpal bill will be tabled in the Lok Sabha today.
With a chairperson and eight members, ...
The Cradle Baby scheme, under which cradles are placed at various locations to receive female children abandoned by their parents, has been extended to fiv...
