Chandigarh, Nov 21 (IANS) The Domestic Violence Act, which aims to shield the rights of women, is being misused by some to harass their in-laws and extort money from their husbands, an ...

New Delhi/Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is slated to travel to China, has said Beijing has a "direct link with Kashmir". The Mirwaiz, who is set to ...

New Delhi, Nov 20(ANI): External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday said that Chairman of the separatist Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was free to travel wherever he wanted, including China. Mirwaiz ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) With two out of every three children, a majority studying in schools, reported being physically abused in India, a child rights organization Friday called for immediate implementation ...

Jaipur, Nov 20(ANI): A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is setting up a hospital for camels in Jaipur, which will be completed by the end of the year. According to 'Help in Sufferings', the hospital ...

New Delhi/Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was free to travel anywhere he wanted to, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Friday. The chief of ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (ANI): Products made by jail inmates are attracting hordes of visitors in the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi. Handicrafts, showpieces, snacks, gift items and ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) A notorious tiger poacher was arrested in the Champawat district of Uttarakhand by a joint team of the police and forest department, an NGO which helped in ...

Bangalore, Nov 18 (IANS) As the world celebrates International Men's Day Thursday, a Bangalore-based group wants an end to stereotyping male gender, and says men too get hurt, both emotionally and ...

New York, Nov 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The annual Leonid Meteor shower is at its peak early today morning. The night sky would dazzle with the Leonid meteor shower. According NASA experts, and ...

New York, Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The night sky would dazzle for the next couple of days with the Leonid meteor shower. Skies in Colorado are expected to be clear tonight ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (ANI): Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal donated books to underprivileged kids here today. The programme was organised by the NGO, 'Save The Children'. "It shows the extent of ...

Siliguri, Nov. 15 (ANI): In a bid to make HIV patients self reliant, an NGO organised a four-day vocational training workshop in Siliguri. During the workshop, the West Bengal Voluntary Health Organisation (WBVHO) ...

Raipur, Nov 15 (IANS) Around 40 families of a forested tribal village in Chhattisgarh migrated to safer areas Sunday after wild elephants went on rampage for two consecutive nights and brought down ...

Noida, Nov.14 (ANI): As winter sets in north India, school kids in Noida city of Uttar Pradesh donated warm clothes to poor children on the occasion of Children's Day, which this year ...

Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) To attract youth and encourage them to promote literacy in Uttar Pradesh, an NGO has said it will offer those teaching the illiterate an opportunity to opt either ...

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the government's decision to give extension to Prasar Bharati Chief Executive Officer (CEO) B.S. Lalli. A division bench comprising ...

By Jatindra Dash Makhnaha (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) Forty-year-old Ram Naval was struggling to feed his family of seven a couple of years ago as floods kept ruining his crops. Now he ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday mooted the idea of starting a telephone helpline for reporting instances of child labour in the capital. A division bench comprising Chief Justice ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the defence ministry and the directorate general of military training for alleged bias against disabled children in admission to ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Starting this Children's Day Nov 14, child rights NGO CRY will start a nationwide campaign asking the government to amend the Right to Education Act 2009. Listing out ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 (IANS) Eminent public health expert C.R. Soman passed away at a hospital here Friday. He was 71. Soman, a former professor at the medical college here, had been hospitalised a ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) A reference guidebook that will have clear guidelines on child care for caretakers in children's homes and how to instill in kids a positive mental outlook will ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday issued notices to three private schools for not giving admissions to students from economically weak families. A division bench comprising Justices A.K. ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) A two-day national workshop on mental health of children who are distressed or have been abused will be held in the national capital from Friday, the organisers ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Twenty six bonded child labourers have been rescued from a toy factory in north-east Delhi following a raid by the government's labour department and an NGO. The four ...

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, Nov 5 (IANS) You can turn milk into yogurt within 10 minutes or pump toxins out of your cattle. You just need to know which plant to use, says ...

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Even as the Indian capital undergoes a makeover ahead of the Commonwealth Games next year, one pocket of Delhi, Badarpur Khadar, still lives in darkness, quite literally. ...

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) India is falling behind other nations in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care as it does not adequately monitor deaths and injuries in the critical period ...

Dhaka, Nov 3 (IANS) A law to curb violence against women in the form of acid being thrown at them has been approved in Bangladesh, which has witnessed 132 incidents of ...