Centre warns of possible drought in western India

Delayed monsoon to impact Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the biggest producers of sugar cane, cotton, pulses and soybean In what could become first maj...

Swine flu in India: fatalities caused by ignorance?

Doctors cite late reporting of symptoms for rising number of deaths; Bengaluru, Rajasthan, and Kerala report high number of fatalities Swine flu is back in news with one mo...

5th Jagran Film Festival To Open On 5th July In New Delhi

The festival will travel to 14 cities across India

New Delhi, India: The festival that created a furore with its vast span ...

Ground water in Raj a major concern

A report `Rajasthan Action Plan on Climate Change’ drafted recently by various departments of the state government with the help of TERI has also pointed out that the...

Gaining education, 35 women plan to uplift their communities

How do you help your backward community living in remote, virtually inaccessible villages to progress if most of them are uneducated? Simple, finish your own studies, train...

Hindustan Zinc to spend Rs. 8.6 crore to build 30,000 Toilets in Rural Rajasthan

Hindustan Zinc, a Sesa Sterlite company in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has signed MoU with the State Government of Rajasthan to build 30,000 rural toilets for BPL families un...

National rubber policy must protect growers, urges planters’ association

The proposed national policy on rubber should reflect the real concerns of all stakeholders in the sector and protect the livelihoods of rubber growers in the country, urge...

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

City drinking water not fit for human consumption

Thirty-five out of 62 water samples collected in last three days have been found unfit for drinking. This also includes six out 20 water samples collected from different ci...