Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday distributed portfolios among the new ministers, keeping key departments such as home, personnel and several others to himself, according to a......
Goa has the highest number of people who could 'search the Internet for information and can send or receive e-mails and can perform online banking transactions'. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has......
As droves of people flocked to Ramlila Maidan to voice their support for Anna Hazare, lack of water and sanitation facilities at the venue tested the resolve of quite a few supporters. With the......
Search and rescue operations continued in Nepal for the third consecutive day on Monday after monsoon-induced floods and landslides killed more than 200 people in one of the worst rain-related......
The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to Haryana to release surplus water provided by Himachal Pradesh to the parched national capital for......
India and China, home to more than a third of the world's population, have made "considerable progress" in providing drinking water to their people, according to a new UNICEF-WHO report. "Both......
Not all listed companies above a threshold have spent on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the way they were required to do. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The aggregate unspent......
Money allocated for rural India has increased, but expenditure of panchayats is not adequate and inconsistent, say Prachi Salve & Saumya Tewari of IndiaSpend.com. Panchayats (village councils)......
The innovative sewage plant can turn human faeces into electricity and clean drinking water. Image: After tasting the water treated at the plant, Gates said, “It tasted as good as any......
The ministry of jal shakti was formed by merging the ministry of drinking water and sanitation, with the ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, on May 31, 2019. The......
Hollywood actor Matt Damon made a surprise visit to Bangalore for inspecting slums that are beneficiaries of drinking water and sanitation projects funded by his non-profit organisation, Water.org.......