El Nino effect: Mumbai may get only 93% rainfall: Met

Authorities say the monsoon has reached the city, but the currents are weak, causing a period of inactivity; weak monsoon will, almost inevitably, lead to a rise in vegetab...

5th Jagran Film Festival To Open On 5th July In New Delhi

The festival will travel to 14 cities across India

New Delhi, India: The festival that created a furore with its vast span ...

Ground water in Raj a major concern

A report `Rajasthan Action Plan on Climate Change’ drafted recently by various departments of the state government with the help of TERI has also pointed out that the...

Gaining education, 35 women plan to uplift their communities

How do you help your backward community living in remote, virtually inaccessible villages to progress if most of them are uneducated? Simple, finish your own studies, train...

Punks, Pereras and Happy Hookers: Women of the South Asian musical diaspora

A number of young South Asian women are making inventive, cutting edge music, channeling the spirit of Grace Jones, Patti Smith and punk rather than Raj Kapoor. Are we livi...

Hindustan Zinc to spend Rs. 8.6 crore to build 30,000 Toilets in Rural Rajasthan

Hindustan Zinc, a Sesa Sterlite company in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has signed MoU with the State Government of Rajasthan to build 30,000 rural toilets for BPL families un...

National rubber policy must protect growers, urges planters’ association

The proposed national policy on rubber should reflect the real concerns of all stakeholders in the sector and protect the livelihoods of rubber growers in the country, urge...

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, an owner of a general store in east Delhi, runs a school under the Akshardham Metro Station Bridge, free of cost, for students of nearby villages belon...