India deadliest place in world for girl child

Rukmini Shrinivasan TNN | Feb 1, 2012 An Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy, making this the worst gender differential in child mortality for any country in the world, reveals a new study.

Internship is a great learning

AIESEC leaders chalk out future strategies AMIT CHOUDHRY CHANDIGARH, NOVEMBER 7 AIESEC India’s four-day national conference organised at the North Park brought together AIESEC India’s top leadership from across the country. Here’s a glimpse of what it was all about. ‘‘The conference is a platform where leadership from the top echelons of local committees come [...]

Ravaged Rajoli villagers struggle to survive

Displaced by floods, rajoli villagers fight for survival 90 % of 500-odd houses in Rajoli had collapsed, Rajoli suffered a huge loss on account of damage to weavers’ units Rahul RAJOLI (Mahabubnagar dt.): Hundreds of poor families are literally on the road in this tiny village as they have pitched tents made of sarees after [...]

Rajoli weavers in despair over lost livelihood

Nearly 5,000 handloom weavers who lost their looms face mounting debts G Arun Kumar | TNN Rajoli (Mahbubnagar): For the 5,000-odd weavers of this town, the last straw came in the form of nature’s fury like they have never seen before. In a matter of a few hours on that fateful October 2, the gushing [...]

Rajoli ravaged by floods

Village is renowned for its handloom products S.Venugopal RAJOLI (Mahabubnagar district): The unprecedented flood has taken the sheen out of this village located on the banks of Tungabhadra river. A rich village with about 40,000 population, Rajoli is acclaimed for its handloom products which are in good demand. The flood that ravaged the village on [...]

GUTS AND GRIT AMIDST GRIME

A positive, never-say-die attitude helps slum children survive and emerge victorious despite, and not because of, government moves to rehabilitate them. TOI takes a look at what life in the slums of Hyderabad involves TIMES NEWS NETWORK Relocation: A flawed concept Hyderabad: Even as the world wakes up to the living condition of slum dwellers [...]

Students conduct social audit

Exercise meant to make the delivery system more accountable  Staff Reporter HYDERABAD: What makes the post-matric students’ scholarships roost for almost a year before they reach the beneficiaries while all government employees get paid immediately on the next day of the budget? The question by Principal Secretary of Social Welfare V. Nagi Reddy was not [...]

Pilot project on BC scholarship audit

Sonia Krishna|TNN Hyderabad: A long spiral staircase leads to a classroom tucked away from the hustlebustle of the college in the basement of the building. While students of their age are seen hanging about in the campus, young girls in this class seem to be concentrating on a more important issue: an audit to check [...]

Australians risk losing adopted Indian children

Mon, Aug 25 08:29 AM Sydney, Aug 25 (DPA) Australian couples risk having to give up adopted children whom Indian authorities fear were stolen from their biological parents, Canberra officials said Monday.

Green cover fading

Even as the green concern is peaking in Hyderabad, it is officials guarding forests in the state who are fearing massive clearing of dense, thick jungles. They say the number of people encroaching upon forest land has increased with the implementation of the forest rights act and huge tracts of forest land have already lost [...]