SC orders Centre, states to eradicate manual scavenging in phased manner

Observing that a large segment of India's population, involved in manual scavenging, has remained unheard and muted, in bondage and systematically trapped in inhumane conditions, the Supreme Court......

Goodbye to manual scavenging? IIT Madras develops robots for task

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have developed a robot to clean septic tanks without human intervention. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: PTI......

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......

Reconverted protestors still unsure about saving their homes

Having even taken recourse to changing their faith to save their houses from being razed, the residents of Rampur's Valmiki Basti now hope better political sense prevails. Dhruv Munjal reports......