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Open Defecation Affects Pregnancy Outcomes Too, New Study Finds.

Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecati...

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Over 70,000 Transgenders In Rural India: Survey

Rural India has over 70,000 transgenders, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with nearly 13,000, and West Bengal home to around 10,000, reveals the Socio Economic and Cast...

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Hiring Activity Up In Media, Entertainment Sectors:

Hiring in the media and entertainment industry rose 9 per cent in the 12 months to May 2015, thanks to increased penetration of digital media, satellite TV, and wide scale ...

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Coldplay's Chris Martin, Freida Pinto Meet PM.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Hollywood actress Freida Pinto on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed how they can support his ‘Swachh Bharat&r...

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Bollywood Stars Sandip Soparrkar, Onir And Monica Dogra Support Transgender, The Hijra Community.

The “3rd National Transgender Hijra Habba” took place at the Eros International hotel in the capital of India, Delhi. This event was an attempt to create a broa...

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High Prices Of Food Lead To Malnutrition, Says Study

High food prices result in malnutrition in India, says a study done on children from Andhra Pradesh. The research published in the Journal of Nutrition says spikes in food ...

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Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011

Over two out of every three rural households own a mobile phone, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 has found. At the same time, 36 per cent of rural Indians are illi...

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MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

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Rural India To Dominate Next Set Of Internet Users.

India, with over 300 million internet users, is the second largest mobile market of the world, only after China. But, 300 million out of 1.2 billion population, surely leav...

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Delhi Bids Farewell To 6th Jagran Film Festival

Film celebrities Divya Dutta, Piyush Mishra, Gulshan Grover, Saurabh Shukla and Kunal Kapoor and Sriram Raghavan graced the closing da...

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