447 NGOs involved in mid-day meal scheme

Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2013, 20:42

Government on Monday said that a total of 447 NGOs, trusts and centralised kitchens are engaged in serving meal to children in schools located in urban areas where there is no space for kitchens and stores.

Coalgate documents with CBI: Coal Ministry to RTI queries

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 21:53

Amid controversy over missing files related to coal block allocation, some RTI replies given by the Coal Ministry to queries from NGO Greenpeace and other activists say that the documents are already with the CBI.

Release National Youth Policy, demands Gujarat NGO

Last Updated: Monday, August 12, 2013, 10:27

The Centre should release the final National Youth Policy at the earliest so that joint programmes related to this section of the population are implemented by departments concerned, a city-based NGO has demanded.

More than 30 dead in Syria regime air raids: NGO

Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 10:36

Syrian regime air strikes killed more than 30 people today in the Latakia province, bastion of the ruling Assad clan, and the northern city of Raqa, a monitory group said.

Review plea in SC against its verdict quashing common med test

Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2013, 21:28

Petition was filed in Supreme Court seeking a review of its judgement scrapping the single common entrance test (NEET) for admissions to MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses in all medical colleges.

36 child labourers rescued from sweatshops in Seelampur, Usmanpur

Last Updated: Sunday, July 21, 2013, 19:43

Thirty-six child labourers from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal were rescued on Sunday from six garment factories in Seelampur and Usmanpur areas of north-east Delhi.

Wounded dying for lack of medicine in Syria`s Homs: NGO

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 17:22

People wounded in fighting between rebels and regime troops in the central Syria city of Homs are dying for lack of medical equipment, a watchdog said on Tuesday.

`Syria warplanes bombard outskirts of Damascus`

Last Updated: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 22:03

Syrian warplanes launched a series of strikes on the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday as President Bashar al-Assad`s regime pressed a bid to drive back rebels, a monitoring group said.

NGO Sulabh International to adopt U`khand`s `village of widows`

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 20:54

NGO Sulabh International on Thursday announced to adopt Deoli-Bramhagram village in Uttarakhand which has acquired the dubious tag of "village of widows" after 57 men from the settlement went missing in the recent flash-floods.

NGO running self-sufficient village economy model

Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2013, 11:27

An NGO runs a workshop which provides direct employment to 700 people at Bishunpur in Gumla district, about 120 km from Ranchi.

NCPCR to seek report from states on plight of migrant children

Last Updated: Sunday, June 23, 2013, 09:41

NGOs in Tamil Nadu have claimed that children of migrant workers from Odisha and AP are being deprived of basic facilities, prompting the NCPCR to seek action taken report from the corresponding state governments.