'Hindustan ki beti' Geeta mourns 'mother' Sushma

Geeta, the hearing and speech-impaired woman who returned to India from Pakistan in 2015 following extensive efforts by Sushma Swaraj, on Wednesday said she has lost a "guardian" and "motherly......

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......

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......