If the administration of the malnutrition-hit Melghat region
in Maharashtra is to be believed, the region has seen a marginal decline in infant mortality
rat...
Attending a meeting with the Standing Committee on Law and
Personnel, which is scrutinizing a bill to provide protection to those who help
in unveiling corrup...
After completing her first fact-finding mission in the
country, Margaret Sekaggya, rapporteur on human rights defenders appointed by
the Geneva-based H...
One month from now, nearly 21,000 kids from 30 schools in
Chandigarh might not get their midday meal as NGO Swami Shivananda Memorial
Institute will wi...
The Direct Taxes Code Bill, which is scheduled to replace
the Income Tax Act from April 1, 2012, proposes that charitable and
not-for-profit organizations (NG...
The United Nation's (UN) human rights wing has come forward
to help the families of Kashmiris who have been missing for the past two
decades. The families all...
The data on cases registered for violation of human rights,
gathered by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), shows that Uttar Pradesh
and Delhi account fo...
The first-ever report tracking global progress against pneumonia, the leading killer of children under five years of age, finds that India is witnessing the hig...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says obesity levels are rising fast in developing countries, with India being on the top.Betwee...
Transcervical Reversible Female Contraception (TRFC) – a non-surgical and completely reversible alternative to tubectomy – will go into trials on humans in a ye...
