81% children in Delhi slums have no toilets: Survey
NEW DELHI, Delhi: After a minor from a Delhi slum was raped when she ventured out to use a community toilet last year, a survey was held to...
Unable to pay for public toilets, Mumbai’s poor defecating in open
MUMBAI, Maharashtra: Children playing in narrow lanes, choked gutters, steel shanties and the stench emanating air is how Rafi Nagar looks like in the financial capital of India....
J&K Guv proposes opening Kargil war hotspots for trekking
Jammu: Twenty years after Tiger Hills in Kargil became famous in the entire country, the hill might soon be opened for the general public as a tourist destination....
Final-year engg student from Bastar makes 3D printer
Depending heavily on jugaad, the printer is largely made from waste material and costs about one-fifth of a comparable readymade device Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh: How amazing would it be...
China is trying to check brain drain but India isn’t: Nobel laureate
India-born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had made headlines in 2009 when he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two of his peers for their research...
Rajasthani migrants in Kashmir ask ‘What elections!’
There are those who dutifully cast their vote and feel smug about being a good citizen. Then there are those who can't be bothered. Not delinquent but disenfranchised,...
This village in MP has cell phone towers but no electricity
The story of Tinhawa, a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, is the story of many villages across the length and breadth of the country. Tinhawa still...
Mizoram yet to fulfil decade-old promise to ginger farmers
Aizawl: The year gone by was a bad one for the state’s ginger farmers. Ask Marovi of Mualvum village, who has been cultivating ginger for over ten years....
Bangladesh’s dichotomy of development and deprivation
The Sheikh Hasina regime’s performance in Bangladesh will be put to test as the upcoming elections will show who is going to form the government at the Centre....
Ground realities beg to differ in the face of increasing women’s participation in Bangladesh’s workforce
Dhaka: For the past nine years, the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh has formulated schemes with the objective to improve women’s condition in the country. Schemes implemented under the...