-Down to Earth New WHO-UNICEF report warns that lack of progress on sanitation would undermine gains from access to safe drinking water India has achieved very little in the last 20 years when it comes to eradicating open defecation. Also, India is one among two countries (along with Namibia) which have the largest gap between their richest and poorest people in terms of facilities for open defecation. These facts were highlighted in a...

-PTI Medical expenses incurred on judges and their family members cannot be disclosed or made public under the Right to Information Act, the Supreme Court held on Thursday. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy refused to interfere with a Delhi High Court verdict dismissing a plea seeking details of medical reimbursements of Supreme Court judges, saying it had personal information and providing it would...

-Asian Age Children born in India are, on average, shorter than those born in sub-Saharan Africa. Even worse, 255 million Indians remain food insecure, eating less than 2,100 calories daily. Jharkhand reports the lowest per capita calorie intake (1,900 Kcal) in rural areas, while West Bengal hovers similarly (1,851 Kcal) in urban areas. We have attempted to meet this challenge through legislation. Aside from the Right to Food Bill, the landmark...

-PTI Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially kick off Digital India Week at 4 PM on Wednesday over video conferencing in two village panchayats in Indore. Industry leaders like Cyrus Mistry, Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji, Pawan Munjal, Sunil Mittal, Kumar Manglam Birla and Anil Ambani are expected to be present at the launch. The Digital India Project aims to connect all gram panchayats in India through broadband, promote e-governance and transform...

-Business Standard Swadeshi Jagran Manch asked the Centre to come out with a comprehensive land use policy instead of a piecemeal approach to the issue The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) affiliated economic policy group, along with Communist Party of India (CPI) affiliated All India Kisan Sabha on Tuesday made common cause in criticising the land Bill brought by the Narendra Modi government. In its presentation to the parliamentary...