Category : Humanitarian Affairs

‘About 300 million people live in towns and cities underserved by utilities, with inadequate housing and increasingly choking traffic. The condition of the urban poor is by many measures worse than the poor in rural areas, towards which special attention has been given

Early this month, India saw its state-owned health insurance firms withdrawing the cashless payment facility for treatment at hundreds of hospitals, on the ground that hospitals were over-charging customers who had health insurance policies. The move forced the health ministry to take action

‘There is no need to redefine the poverty line as it would bring more people under the deprived category, make it difficult to implement welfare schemes or will dilute their purpose,’ said Planning Commission Principal Advisor Pronab Sen on August 23. ‘The higher

‘There is no need to redefine the poverty line as it would bring more people under the deprived category, make it difficult to implement welfare schemes or will dilute their purpose,’ said Planning Commission Principal Advisor Pronab Sen on August 23. ‘The higher

Addressing a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party in New Delhi, today, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that there was a need to reach out to the people of Kashmir and that was possible only by addressing the anger and pain through talks

Addressing a meeting of representatives of state human rights commissions in New Delhi, on August 17, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice KG Balakrishnan said that a mere setting up of state human rights commission would not serve any purpose, if they

‘About 66 per cent of the senior citizens in the country cannot afford to eat two square meals a day and 90 per cent of them have no social or health security,’ said NGO HelpAge International while observing August 16 as Senior Citizens

Slamming the Commonwealth Games, activists in Delhi are asking that the mega-event be called off. The activists accused the CWG officials of violating and denying basic human rights to the poor and the backward in the garb of development. ‘We can still call

‘What’s India? A nation where pizza reaches home faster than an ambulance or the police, where you get car loan at five per cent interest but education loan at 12 per cent, where a kilo of rice costs Rs 40, but mobile sim

Slamming the Commonwealth Games, activists in Delhi are asking that the mega-event be called off. The activists accused the CWG officials of violating and denying basic human rights to the poor and the backward in the garb of development. ‘We can still call