National rural jobs scheme loses steam in Karnataka, Rajasthan

Rajasthan and Karnataka, which used to be stand-out performers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)’s flagship scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen...

Less than 12 percent of children use toilets in India

According to a study, the use of toilets by children in rural areas is less than 12 percent as against 47 percent in urban areas.

Against this background, social sc...

National Urban Health Mission launched

The ambitious National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), aimed at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor, was launched here toda...

A mother and a judge speaks out on section 377

My name is Leila Seth. I am 83 years old. I have been in a long and happy marriage of more than sixty years with my husband Premo, and am the mother of three children. The ...

Karun Chandhok to cycle 500km for charity

Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok began his 500km charity cycle rideSunday morning at the Pallikaranai Government School here.

The “KC500 presented by Montr...

India just produced its first gun for women. Is this a solution or a problem?

India appears to be following the US by making and marketing guns for women, but it won’t make women any safer

“Nirbheek” is small, light and can ...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

Embattled French first lady Valerie Trierweiler to visit India

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler is returning to charity work with a trip to India, an anti-hunger group said, two weeks after she was hospitalized following a...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Goes Undercover, Raises Money for Charity

Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled one over on Maria Shriver a few years ago, fathering a child out of wedlock with his housekeeper?

That wasn’t cool....