Budget allocation for maternity programme increased two fold

Photograph: Jayanta Dey/Reuters Rs 29,000 crore has been set aside for the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry for the next fiscal, a 20 per cent increase over the 2018-2019 financial year......

Saving the girl child, one village at a time

Sarpanch leaders are changing Rajasthan for the girl child, discovers Rashme Sehgal. IMAGE: A schoolgirl in Jodhpur looks forward to a bright future. Photograph: Kind courtesy Wikimedia Commons......

Woman cop transferred after spat with Haryana minister

Sangeeta Rani Kalia, Superintendent of Police of Fatehabad district, was on Saturday shunted out, a day after a spat with Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, becoming the second woman IPS officer to......

'We are emerging as a superpower bhagwan bharose'

'Politics is turning into gift politics. You are distributing computers, mobiles, tablets while not focusing on production that could provide jobs so that people can sustain themselves...' 'This......

Pooja Batra, Gautam Gulati walk the ramp for a cause

Several celebrities walked the ramp for Indian Television Academy founders Anu and Shashi Ranjan’s NGO Beti, as they launched a new documentary called Main Tamanna, to stop girl child......