Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister...

True Review: Singham Returns

Critics Rating: 2 Star*

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Dayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty, Anupam Kher, Amole Gupte

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Open to join polio campaign for Pak children: Amitabh Bachchan

Having helped India eradicate polio, actor and UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan today said he was open to a similar eradication campaign for the well-bei...

In Lucknow, one toilet for every 58,844 people!

Lucknow, with a population of nearly three million and the capital of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, doesn’t have any public toilets for women an...

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

Why do millions of Indian defecate in the open?

Its early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gatheri...

Naxal-hit Areas Of Chhattisgarh See Sharp Decline In Population

Industrialisation and forced sterilization programmes may be some reasons for the trend Growth of population in Chhattisgarh’s Naxalite-hit areas like Bijapur and Dan...

Delhi Air And Water In A Dismal State

On the eve of World Environment Day, the Capital does not score very high on the environmental report card going by the views of environmentalists and conservationists base...

Mumbai’s Population Growth Rate Is Twice That Of The State

Mumbai, the sprawling megapolis spread over 600 sq km, has seen its population grow at a rate which is twice that of Maharashtra’s and 2.5 times that of the country i...