Search Result

Search Result
Human Rights

India Calls For Empowerment Of Autistic People

Stressing on empowering autistic people through appropriate education and employment opportunities, India has called for enhancing quality of life of differently-abled chil...

Read More
Human Rights

On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of prob...

Read More
Sustainable Development

How The Govt Plans To Dispose 484 Tonnes Of Bio-Medical Waste Everyday

Only 15% of all biomedical waste is hazardous, but the treatment of all waste is important, not just for the public but also healthcare workers. It’s also an environm...

Read More
Human Rights

India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on l...

Read More
Health

Health Ministry Launches Longitudinal Ageing Study In India

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), here today. Launching the project, Shri B P Sharma, Secretary (HFW) stat...

Read More
Trending

Entrepreneurial Revolution Is Happening In India

When World Bank released their ‘Ease of Doing Business report in 2014, India was ranked 142 out of 189 countries, and one of the biggest issues which a new entreprene...

Read More
Gender

Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s m...

Read More
Human Rights

Land Indians Have The Worst Access To Safe Drinking Water In The World

India has the highest number of people in the world without access to safe water, a report released to mark World Water Day showed Tuesday.The country has 75.8 million peop...

Read More
Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

Read More
Festivals

Documentary Film Festival To Charm Enthusiasts This Weekend - The Times Of India On Mobile

Ahead of the long weekend this week, travellers planning a trip to the scenic hills of Kumaon might add one more item to their itinerary. The fourth edition of DOK Leipzig ...

Read More