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Family planning is a human right. Yet today some 222 million women in developing countries are unable to exercise that right because they lack access to contraceptives, information and quality services or because social and economic forces prevent them from taking advantage of services even where they are available.

Indore: Public Health Minister Dr. Narottam Mishra has said that a conducive atmosphere for investment prevails in Madhya Pradesh.

Jaipur: The state capital of Rajasthan will soon join the club of top ten most populated cities of urban agglomerations in the country.

Food losses and waste amount to roughly $680 billion in industrialised countries and $310 billion in developing countries

The total food wasted every year globally is enough to feed 500 million people without any extra burden on natural resources, a top official of United Nation's body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. "Around one third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted every year," FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said, adding the elimination of this wastage is an important step in achieving zero hunger.

Panaji: A Goa beach village now wants tourists to carry back the garbage they generate while having a ball on the beach.

The government should not dictate whether they are to be served by the PDS or direct cash transfers.

New Delhi: If you have a domestic help below the age of 14 years, then the authorities may soon visit your house and send her to school.

For 11-year-old Jesmina Begum, daughter of Abdul Motin of Atigaon, a village in the flood-ravaged Morigaon district in central Assam, commuting to school has become not only difficult but also dang

A Yale Foundation study has found that Indians understand and respond to the idea of climate change affecting their lives and their future prospects, and have faith in science to tackle it.

Mumbai:In a bid to avoid conflict, villagers living in core areas of tiger reserve in Maharashtra will be given Rs 10 lakh as compensation to relocate.

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