The  Ministry of Women and Child Development  has developed a reader  titled “Raising Happy Children and Providing Safe Childhoods” .  ...

Small entrepreneurs have raised some concerns over the government’s proposal to provide social security coverage to its entire workforce. ...

National Action Plan for Children, 2016 (NPAC) was recently launched at a special function held to celebrate the National Girl Child Day i...

In a significant move, the Delhi High Court has ruled that a son cannot claim a right to live in the self-acquired house of his parents an...

Biotech-KISAN was recently launched by the government. It is a new programme that empowers farmers, especially women farmers. It is a Farm...

The first National Tribal Carnival was recently inaugurated in New Delhi. The carnival seeks to promote a sense of inclusiveness among the...

Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh has proposed “Mobile Air Dispensary” service f...

Acting swiftly on the reports of mortality among the birds in National Zoological Park, Delhi NCR and other parts of the country due to H5...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore have developed a handheld melamine detector. With this detecting melamine...

In view of the rising number of cases and reported deaths due to of Scrub Typhus in Himachal Pradesh, Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of He...

The government will soon launch Mission Parivar Vikas to improve family planning services in seven states where the combined total fertili...

The government has selected 27 new smart cities in the latest round of ‘Smart City Challenge ’ competition.

Noting that online search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are under an “obligation” to check pre-natal sex determination advertisement...

With India toughening its stand on surrogacy, evident in the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016 which the Cabinet cleared last month, Camb...

A landmark report by the United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines has called for delinking drug prices from research and dev...

Power Minister Piyush Goyal has reiterated India’s stand for the implementation of ‘Polluter Pays’ principle on international carbon emiss...

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare has declared India free from...

The country's first-ever hotline to curb sexual abuse of children through the Internet and to remove child pornographic content online...

The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of the   Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)   to give a major push for creation of high ...

Sikkim has been adjudged the cleanest state in the list on the condition of sanitation in rural areas of 26 states.