Shai Venkatraman

In the list of health priorities, adolescent health lags far behind maternal and child health in India. It’s a dangerous oversight given that India is home to the largest number of adolescents in the world. An estimated 253 million adolescents live in India, and one in every fifth adolescent in the world is Indian. There is enough evidence to sho...

Amritsar, Punjab: In Amritsar’s Ajnala town, close to Pakistan’s border, 23-year-old Pooja (name changed), has been coping with her husband Parambir’s drug addiction for over five years. “After every treatment session, he promises to quit. But a few days after we are back home, he is back to the habit,” she says, despair and worry written...

Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...

Mumbai: When her son Hassan was born at 28 weeks, Saba Khan was told the baby had slim chances of survival. “He was very weak and was rushed to the paediatric ICU. He stayed there for nearly 20 days and the doctor told me it would be nothing short of a miracle if he made it alive,” says Ms Khan. To make matters worse, Saba was very weak and cou...

A two-year-old app is helping women in Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, to stand up against domestic violence. The Little Sister app, working in 3 languages, is helping women report instances, however small, and get help. Home to a population of over one million, Mumbai’s Dharavi sees many such cases, say the women who are part of the initiative s...

The latest Census report says that nearly one in every three married women in India were married off below the legal age of 18 years, a grim reminder of how widespread child marriage is in the country. Clearly, the practice continues despite the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act because it has strong social sanction. What is needed is a change in m...

Some of India's most famous women MPs have spent the week arguing against a new bill that seeks to make divorce easier. Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan and M Kanimozhi of the DMK are among those who said the proposals in the new bill will leave women more vulnerable.

As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.

The Congress has said it is eager to tie up with Sharad Pawar's party for elections for the country's richest municipal corporation, Mumbai's BMC.

In 2009, seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in Nagpur with bruises all over her body in a car allegedly owned by Nitin Gadkari, and parked at his home. At this time, Mr Gadkari had not yet been selected the chief of the BJP; he was the president of its Maharashtra branch. Yogita's mother, who worked as a domestic helper in the area, later ...

Activist Swami Agnivesh held a press conference this morning in Mumbai to explain what prompted him to join reality show Bigg Boss. He exited the anti-corruption movement fronted by Anna Hazare after a public and bitter falling out.

At Juhu Beach, the MV Pavit has turned into a local attraction, with tourists and others taking photos of the massive ship that's been here since Sunday, when it ran aground.

If you like dancing or wearing party clothes, then Mumbai, often described as India's Manhattan, is not the place for you.On Sunday night, the Mumbai Police devoted their energy and time to visiting a suburban bar where young call centre employees were enjoying their time off. Seventy-one young people were detained for their dance moves and the clo...

The nine Muslims who have spent four years in jail for the Malegaon blast should not be granted bail, said the CBI in court today.  On the 17th of this month, the men asked that they be released because of Swami Assemanand's confession that right-wing Hindu groups were responsible for the blast which killed 37 people in the communally-sensitiv...

From the onion hub of Lasalgaon in Maharashtra's Nasik district to the wholesale market in Navi Mumbai to the housewife in Mumbai, NDTV tracks the journey of the onion as it hits an all-time high.Unseasonal rains have hit onion farmers hard. Nearly 70 per cent of the crop has been destroyed in Lasalgaon."The rains have hit the onion yield. We used ...

In the list of health priorities, adolescent health lags far behind maternal and child health in India. It’s a dangerous oversight given that India is home to the largest number of adolescents in the world. An estimated 253 million adolescents live in India, and one in every fifth adolescent in the world is Indian. There is enough evidence to sho...

Amritsar, Punjab: In Amritsar’s Ajnala town, close to Pakistan’s border, 23-year-old Pooja (name changed), has been coping with her husband Parambir’s drug addiction for over five years. “After every treatment session, he promises to quit. But a few days after we are back home, he is back to the habit,” she says, despair and worry written...

Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...

Mumbai: When her son Hassan was born at 28 weeks, Saba Khan was told the baby had slim chances of survival. “He was very weak and was rushed to the paediatric ICU. He stayed there for nearly 20 days and the doctor told me it would be nothing short of a miracle if he made it alive,” says Ms Khan. To make matters worse, Saba was very weak and cou...

A two-year-old app is helping women in Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, to stand up against domestic violence. The Little Sister app, working in 3 languages, is helping women report instances, however small, and get help. Home to a population of over one million, Mumbai’s Dharavi sees many such cases, say the women who are part of the initiative s...

The latest Census report says that nearly one in every three married women in India were married off below the legal age of 18 years, a grim reminder of how widespread child marriage is in the country. Clearly, the practice continues despite the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act because it has strong social sanction. What is needed is a change in m...

Some of India's most famous women MPs have spent the week arguing against a new bill that seeks to make divorce easier. Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan and M Kanimozhi of the DMK are among those who said the proposals in the new bill will leave women more vulnerable.

As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.

The Congress has said it is eager to tie up with Sharad Pawar's party for elections for the country's richest municipal corporation, Mumbai's BMC.

In 2009, seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in Nagpur with bruises all over her body in a car allegedly owned by Nitin Gadkari, and parked at his home. At this time, Mr Gadkari had not yet been selected the chief of the BJP; he was the president of its Maharashtra branch. Yogita's mother, who worked as a domestic helper in the area, later ...

Activist Swami Agnivesh held a press conference this morning in Mumbai to explain what prompted him to join reality show Bigg Boss. He exited the anti-corruption movement fronted by Anna Hazare after a public and bitter falling out.

At Juhu Beach, the MV Pavit has turned into a local attraction, with tourists and others taking photos of the massive ship that's been here since Sunday, when it ran aground.

If you like dancing or wearing party clothes, then Mumbai, often described as India's Manhattan, is not the place for you.On Sunday night, the Mumbai Police devoted their energy and time to visiting a suburban bar where young call centre employees were enjoying their time off. Seventy-one young people were detained for their dance moves and the clo...

The nine Muslims who have spent four years in jail for the Malegaon blast should not be granted bail, said the CBI in court today.  On the 17th of this month, the men asked that they be released because of Swami Assemanand's confession that right-wing Hindu groups were responsible for the blast which killed 37 people in the communally-sensitiv...

From the onion hub of Lasalgaon in Maharashtra's Nasik district to the wholesale market in Navi Mumbai to the housewife in Mumbai, NDTV tracks the journey of the onion as it hits an all-time high.Unseasonal rains have hit onion farmers hard. Nearly 70 per cent of the crop has been destroyed in Lasalgaon."The rains have hit the onion yield. We used ...