To improve sex ratio, Khap ends 500-yr-old ritual in 5 Jat villages

In Dhariwal gotra-dominated Jaurasi-Fatehpur villages of Mewat, the Jat Khap Panchayat has abandoned a 500-year-old practice of ‘pagribandi’ (brotherhood) with ...

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...

Habits of Highly Humanistic Doctors

Even in these times of highly commercialized health care you might still come across doctors and physicians who are humanistic.

How are they different?

I re...

At 240 million, India has a third of child marriages in the world

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) report said 720 million women around the world, alive today, were married before 18 years compared to 156 million men...

WHO & UNICEF: 60% of world population defecating in public live in India

A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that at least 60 percent of the people, who defeca...

SOS Villages Of India Honoured With India NGO Award 2014!

New Delhi, August 5, 2014: SOS Children’s Villages (SOS), a globally active NGO working towards providing secure and loving homes for orphaned a...

“World Breast Feeding Week” inaugurated

The World Breast Feeding Week started at Military Hospital Satwari with a great enthusiasm and overwhelmed participation by admitted mothers and families of Jammu and Nagro...

Sustainable farming need of the hour for parched Jharkhand

Agriculture experts in the state have swung into action with rains having been far below average this monsoon. They are working overtime to devise sustainable agriculture p...

Freida Pinto Attends Girl Summit

Freida Pinto joined the UK government’s first ever Girl Summit on Tuesday 22 July to tackle violence against girls around the world. The Slumdog Millionaire star repr...