While rates of child labour have declined over the last few years, about 10.1 million children are still in some form of servitude in... Read more »
India - one of the countries worst-hit by the coronavirus - has eased most lockdown restrictions and sought to reopen its battered economy, but... Read more »
Adding to this are the reports of a large consignment of China-made weapons reaching the hands of the secessionist Myanmar-based radical groups, who share... Read more »
Children at increasing risk of trafficking and child marriage in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps
"Before Covid-19 there was a larger humanitarian footprint and... friendly spaces. Children could talk to facilitators and share their fears with friends. Those avenues... Read more »
Worryingly, the eyeball-to-eyeball deployment, at least in one place, is at a place where troops had disengaged previously after military-level talks. And the fresh... Read more »
Renu Singh, an ASHA coordinator who has been overseeing 26 villages in Uttar Pradesh, including Atesua where Bano lives, for nearly 15 years, said... Read more »
Across the world, the virus has deepened social and economic inequality in areas like education, pay and health care access, Gates said in remarks... Read more »
"If there were 15 people for a job earlier, now there are 200. Work for eight days is getting done in one day," Rathod,... Read more »
It is understood that job loss due to the Covid-19 lockdown and less work opportunities due to the ongoing pandemic were the reasons that... Read more »
"While government welfare transfers have partly supported rural cash flows so far, we estimate that at least Rs 2.1 trillion (1.1 per cent of... Read more »
A Unicef survey conducted over the last several months across 77 countries found that almost 68 per cent of countries reported at least some... Read more »
"Under SRLM, selected women SHGs have been turned into micro-enterprises which have a bank account. The scheme would allow 3,000 women SHGs to become... Read more »
Campaigners also expressed concern that the Supreme Court's order might violate a 2019 Delhi High Court ruling that said forced and unannounced evictions of... Read more »
The government is celebrating September as a "nutrition month". In the latest offering of "Mann Ki Baat", PM Modi declared September as the "nutrition... Read more »
"I was very nervous at first... and people made fun of me too. But I carried on regardless. They slowly understood I was not... Read more »
Over the past 50 years, Assam, regarded as the commercial hub of India's northeast, has seen violent clashes over land as the state's ethnic... Read more »
Lipulekh is the tri-junction between India, Nepal and China situated atop the Kalapani Valley in Uttarakhand. Last week, the K.P. Sharma Oli government's Ministry... Read more »
In a recent study conducted by the Law and Society Alliance, a New Delhi-based think tank headed by N.C. Bipindra, the population of G-B... Read more »
The project includes holistic learning, sensitisation and workshops of the teachers, implementing class teaching plans, and week-wise activities with particular focus on imparting social... Read more »
"Now we work all hours, with no days off," said 33-year-old Mhaske, who used to do farm work shifts to supplement her ASHA income... Read more »