India brides leave husbands' homes for lack of toilets

Six newlywed women in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have returned to their parents because their husbands’ homes had no toilets. The women, all from ...

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

In India, the rate of children dying in accidents has improved slightly in a decade

They are most likely to die from drowning, building collapses and traffic accidents. Ten years after a fire killed 94 school children in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, India&rsq...

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV's OB vans not landed there...

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV’s OB vans not landed there recently to bring i...

Fun Cinemas all set to mesmerize movie goers in Andheri

Mumbai, July, 2014: Movie-goers in Mumbai have a reason to cheer as their favourite multiplex, Fun Cinemas in Andheri west undergoes a makeover. And t...

Why India's sanitation Crisis kills Women

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India’s sanitation cr...

One toilet every second: Modi government’s 100 day target

Union ministry issues orders to all states to meet target of constructing 5.2 million toilets by end of August The Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation on Friday final...

Great Movies and Brilliant Conversations, the trend continues on the second day of the Jagran Film Festival

Great Movies and Brilliant Conversations, the trend continues on the second day of the Jagran Film Festival

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