Gita Aravamudan’s book Baby Makers is a bare-it-all picture of surrogacy in India, and exposes the multiple facets of the practice through the lens of a keen investigative journalist. Padmalatha Ravi shares more details about the volume.

Institutionalised delivery is encouraged as a means of reducing maternal/infant mortality, but the misbehaviour meted to pregnant women in government hospitals deters them from seeking such care. Ruhi Kandhari reports.

The focus on ending open defecation and ensuring a toilet in every home is a limited one. Lasting success will require a much larger focus on sanitation, writes Aditya Bhol.

The Comptroller and Auditor General performance audit of the social welfare schemes for Persons with Disabilities run by the Department of Social Welfare, Government of Delhi, covering the years from 2009 to 2014, which got tabled recently brought forth some shocking facts, writes Himanshu Upadhyaya.

The Bangalore based technology non-profit, eGovernments Foundation has recently been in the news for expanding its municipal systems reform operations to New Delhi. Managing Trustee Srikanth Nadhamuni talks to Subramaniam Vincent.

The Greater Bangalore Water Supply and Sanitation Project aims to supply piped water to 8 townships on the outskirts of Bangalore, boldly proposing to unhook citizens there from reliance on tubewells, borewells and water tankers. Yet, the only certainty in the much debated project is that the waters are murky, muddy and unclear. Arati Rao reports.

Konkodi Bhat's simple pipe system at his home in Dakshina Kannada allows the family to use rainwater for half the year and lets the excess recharge the open well for usage in the remaining months. His easily replicable technique can successfully reduce groundwater usage in heavy rainfall areas, reports Shree Padre.

While the government claims that an Aadhaar-linked system for direct transfer of social security benefits and receivables will soon be a reality across India, a local experiment devised around reimbursement of LPG subsidy in Mysore fails to raise hope. Bharat Bhatti reports.

Schooling has become accessible and real for these for these children of brick kiln workers in Maharashtra, says Neeta Kolhatkar.

Maharashtra is the first state in India to adopt a reform policy in the water supply and sanitation sector. In Nanded, the first signs of this paradigm shift - from centralised decision-making to allowing village bodies to manage their water - are now evident. Meena Menon reports.

In what is supposed to be an annual religious and cultural gathering, nothing is more mixed up than the speeches. Talks that start with the fine points of Gondi religion, its practice and ritual, inevitably delve into subjects with deeper socio-political resonance. From interior Maharashtra, Aparna Pallavi reports on the annual Kachhargarh fair.

Amongst a number of other problems, this village in Sangli district, Maharashtra, was ridden with alcoholism and disease for over two decades. Since 2001, that began to change. Kavthepiran made a turnaround, banned alcoholism, and won a national award for 100 per cent sanitation this year. Vinita Deshmukh reports.

Whether the Bandra-Worli sealink will reduce the travel time across the city remains to be seen. But it isn't doing anything to dampen the growing dependence of our cities on private transport, writes Darryl D'Monte.

In a city of vast homelessness, can economic growth in the services sector alone lift millions out of poverty? Mumbai's new vision of the future pitches for reclamation and densification, but not jobs and livelihoods. Darryl D'Monte reports.

While state atrocities against Pardhi communities show few signs of abatement, a small school in Mahadev Basti in Usmanabad, Maharashtra brings a ray of hope. Shirish Khare reports.

नई स्कोडा रैपिड (Skoda Rapid) में बीएस-6 कम्प्लाइंट के साथ पेश की गई है और इसमें पेट्रोल इंजन दिया गया है. रैपिड में अब नया 1.0-लीटर, 3-सिलेंडर टर्बो पेट्रोल इंजन मिलेगा

अजय देवगन (Ajay Devgn) ने काजोल (Kajol) संग एक पुरानी फोटो शेयर की है. काजोल से साथ अजय का यह फोटो 22 साल पुरानी है.

मौत दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा सच है, लेकिन इस सच को स्‍वीकार करना और उसे समझते हुए जीना बेहद मुश्किल और 'द स्‍काई इज पिंक' (The Sky Is Pink) इसी मुश्किल को पर्दे पर काफी खूबसूरती और सलीके से उतारती है.

फिलहाल भारत में हैदराबाद और बेंगलुरु में उबर के इंजीनियरिंग सेंटर हैं.

आखिरी सीटी बजने से कुछ क्षण पहले इंजुरी समय में रवि बहादुर राणा (Ravi Bhadur Rana) ने 30 गज की दूरी से शानदार गोल कर भारत को चैंपियन बनाया.

बार्सिलोना (Barcelona) के स्टार फुटबॉलर (Star Footballer) लियोनल मेसी (Lionel Messi) पिछले नौ मुकाबलों में दस गोल कर चुके हैं.

रॉबर्ट लेवन्डोस्की (Robert Lavondowski) के बेहतरीन प्रदर्शन की बदौलत बार्यन म्यूनिख (Bayarn Munich) ने क्रेवेना ज्वेज्दा को 6-0 से मात दी.

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Assam reported its 45th Covid-19 case on Thursday, and along with it the fortuitous capture of a "most wanted" car thief who had been playing cat-and-mouse with police in the state and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh for more than a year.

The Assam health department on Thursday launched a drive in every village to check if people were suffering from viral infections like Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI). Health teams moved from house to house to conduct tests on villagers.

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कोरोना संक्रमण के बीच देश के कई हिस्सों में भारतीय सेना के जवान लोगों की मदद के लिए आगे आए हैं. झारखंड के एक गांव में सीआरपीएफ के जवानों ने 72 किलोमीटर पैदल चलकर 400 लोगों तक राशन पहुंचाने का काम किया है. वहीं, देश के छोटे-छोटे बच्चे अपनी पेंटिंग के जरिए लोगों को संदेश दे रहे हैं. आइए देखते हैं कुछ चुनिंदा तस्वीरें...

प्रियंका चोपड़ा (Priyanka Chopra) ने निक जोनस (Nick Jonas) के साथ ग्रैमी 2020 के रेड कार्पेट पर सभी का ध्यान अपने ओर खींचा और आलम ये था कि इवेंट में सभी की नजरें सिर्फ प्रियंका पर टिकी हुईं थी.

With 60 Covid-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours, the number of infected people in Odisha mounted to 245 on Friday, government updates show.

Precious time of the nation and its leadership is being wasted on a non-issue, namely Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s new Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT).

Covid-19: Spike in coronavirus cases worsens doubling rate to 10.2 days

Moderate exercise in middle, older age cuts time spent in hospital

50% virus strains in India have ‘Spike mutation’ that’s scaring the world

Vande Bharat Mission: India’s evacuation operation picks up pace via air and sea

Spike in Covid-19 cases worries Centre

An Indian-origin Singaporean, Jasvinder Singh Mehar Singh (52) was sentenced to two months' jail on Thursday for shouting "corona, corona" and spitting on a hotel floor at the Changi Airport, the first conviction of its kind in the country related to the coronavirus outbreak. Singh breached a remission order after his early release from prison in February.

A group of Democratic senators have said that there has been a surge in the hate crime against the Asian-Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic and urged the Trump administration to take concrete steps to arrest the spike in such incidents.

भारतीय हॉकी टीमें (India Hockey Teams) भुवनेश्वर (Bhuveshwar) में टोक्यो ओलिंपिक क्वालिफायर (Olympic Qualifier) मैच खेलेंगी

भारतीय महिला टीम (Women Hockey Team) ने अमेरिका (USA) को दो लेग में हुए ओलिंपिक क्वालिफायर (Hockey Olympic Qualifier) में 6-5 से हराया.

1932 में ओलिंपिक खेलों (1932 Olympic Games) में हॉकी में केवल तीन टीमों ने हिस्सा लिया था जिसमें कोई फाइनल मुकाबला नहीं खेला गया था

भारत (India) ने बर्लिन (Berlin) ओलिंपिक में लगातार तीसरी बार हॉकी में गोल्ड मेडल हासिल किया था

नेदरलैंड्स (Netherlands) के खिलाफ फाइनल मुकाबले में बलबीर सिंह (Balbir singh) ने पांच गोल दागे थे