Sanitation is the cornerstone of public health and a tool for social inclusion of marginalised classes. Only 23.7 per cent of Dalit households and 17 per cent of tribal households have access to toilet facilities, writes Kumkum...
By AMIT AGNIHOTRI New Delhi Nov. 17: Having fielded candidates in all the six poll-bound states, Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan is on a hectic campaign tour to push his "development agenda." "We want to play an...
“Resignations would mean President’s Rule” “Lalu not even issued a threat of quitting....” Patna: In a stinging reply to Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad’s letter suggesting resignation by all Members of Parliament and...
Patna: Senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday said the very institution of an inquiry into the killing of Patna young man Rahul Raj on a BEST bus in Mumbai by the police indicated that he was not gunned down in a...
SONEPUR (SARAN): ‘Samosa' hit the national headlines years ago when the then Bihar CM Lalu Prasad once said, “Jab tak hai samose mein aalu, Bihar mein rahega Lalu.'' This North Indian delicacy, a fried potato-stuffed flour...
Rituparna Das of West Bengal and Rupali Rane of Maharashtra won the singles title of mini girls and sub-junior categories respectively at the 22nd Sub-Junior and Mini National Badminton Championship here today.
The election of Barack Obama as the next president of the US, however much it owed to the candidate’s vision, character and charisma, was ultimately propelled by the near-financial collapse in that country, and the very real...
NEW DELHI: Union railway minister Lalu Prasad slammed BJP leader L K Advani and called him a 'terrorist'. Even as the Malegaon blast probe continues, political parties are using the twists and turns in the story to gain mileage...
BY MANISH ANAND New Delhi Nov. 15: Prime ministerial hopeful and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is anow all set to hardsell the state as the country’s next big economic investment destination. She intends to invite...
Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir has asserted that the state government is fully capable of ensuring law and order in its jurisdiction and has taken strong objection to outside "interference" in the state's affairs.