New Delhi/Lucknow, June 6, 2014: The attacks on the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh over crimes against women continued on Wednesday with the Union minister of state for home and even the United Nations adding to the barrage of criticism in ....
New Delhi, May 7, 2014: The son of a sanitation worker; a first-time councillor; and a two-time chairman of the Standing Committee. These are Delhi’s three new mayors. A week after being elected, Yogendra Chandolia (North), Meenakshi (East), and Khushi ....
New Delhi, March 28, 2014: Sanitation, water shortage, bad housing infrastructure and lack of parking spaces, these are the primary issues that most residents of the New Delhi Parliamentary constituency assert, need to be dealt with.....
New Delhi, March 26, 2014: Hundreds of young girls in a large cluster of households near Jahangirpuri in northeast Delhi have silently adopted a rule — skip dinner to avoid using a crowded public toilet in the mornings.In Dhulagori village in Howrah
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New Delhi, Feb 22, 2014: Proposing a new “empowerment line” that aims to measure the minimum economic cost for a household to fulfil eight most basic needs, a global research organisation has estimated that 680 million Indians, or 56 per cent of the p....
New Delhi, Feb 17, 2014: Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry, which implements government's ambitious programme to eradicate the menace of open defecation, has got an allocation of Rs 15,260 crore in the interim budget presented by Finance Minister....
New Delhi, Jan, 21, 2014: Water, Sanitation and hygiene are important components for child survival and development. According to UNICEF girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to drop-out from school due to lack of basic sanitation facilities in schools....
New Delhi, June 1, 2014: Bio-degradable and pocket friendly cotton pads and menstrual cups are among numerous innovations available in the market today to help the sanitary needs of women and girls during menstruation.Lack of availability of proper ....
New Delhi, Sept. 2, 2013: Low and infrequently revised water and sanitation tariffs have led to the under recovery of costs and a widening gap between the cost of production and the tariff charged, the Union Ministry of Urban Development has observed. ....