'42.5 % kids are underweight'

About 42.5 per cent children under the age of five years in the country are underweight and the highest number has been registered in Madhya Pradesh, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday. In a......

Centre using CBI, ED to terrorise people: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the Centre of pursuing vindictive politics and using central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement......

Budget 2019: Social services sector gets major boost

A sum of Rs 29,000 crore has been set aside for the Women and Child Development Ministry for 2019-20, a 17 per cent increase, with the social services sector getting a major boost in the Budget.......

Budget: Mission Poshan 2.0 to improve nutritional outcomes

The supplementary nutrition programme and the Poshan Abhiyaan under the Women and Child Development Ministry has been merged to launch Mission Poshan 2.0 to strengthen nutritional content,......

ICDS to cover every child under 6

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the General Budget in Parliament today, announced that the government is committed to the universalisation of the Integrated Child......

Budget brings good news for anganwadis

Budget 2011-12 has increased the allocation to the social sector by 17 per cent to Rs. 1,60,887 crore (Rs. 1608.87 billion). It has brought good news for the anganwadi workers and helpers under the......

Anganwadi workers to get salary hike

Giving in to demands from Anganwadi workers, the government on Monday said it will double their remuneration while a special development fund for women self-help groups was also announced as part......

Cabinet nod for serious fraud office

The Union Cabinet today cleared the setting up of a Serious Frauds Investigation Office in the department of company affairs.The office will have to use the services of other agencies to undertake......