Where are the funds collected in the name of workers, CAG asks...

The state government has set a target to provide universal access to secondary education at senior secondary level by increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in the state from 60% to 65% by 2017 with an emphasis on girls' education. A ...

Police connived with the Maruti Suzuki management in flouting the basic rights of workers at its plant in Manesar, Haryana, said a report released on Thursday by the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), which demanded an independent judicial ...

Nearly two weeks after a sexual harassment incident drove panchayats of six villages of Haryana's Mahendragarh district to stop sending their girls to school, the area's only senior secondary school in Bhairawas village is trying hard to woo its ...

The state-wise (number of females per 1000 males in 0-6 years age group) in India during 2001-2011 declined except in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Mizoram, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu (see table). Interestingly, these are the same states that had ...

construction labourers who were shunned by the Office of Assistant Labour Commissioner in Bhopal from issuing labourer welfare card submitted a complaint to Labour Secretary Ajay Tirki on Friday. The labourers led by Madhya Pradesh Theka Nirman ...

Expressing discontent with the decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that requires a no objection certificate (NOC) for quarrying brickearth, the Brick Manufacturers Associations Federation (BMAF) on Tuesday sought the ...

A Ministry of Women and Child Development study states that children on the street, at work and in institutional care reported the highest incidence of sexual assault. Children are afraid of monsters in the dark. The bogeyman in the closet, the ...

4.35 pm: Quattrocchi stands discharged in Bofors case: AntonyThe government does not plan to launch any fresh probe into the Bofors gun deal and Ottavio Quattrocchi stands "discharged" as he could not be extradited even after 20 years of ...

4.14 pm:Mamata Banerjee has laid the blame for the chit fund scam in her state on the UPA government. "Chit funds fall under center. Center is to be blamed for the scam. SEBI had informed the state about one organisation, ' said the CM of Bengal.