Washington: With the rate of stillbirths now topping that of infants who die before their first birthdays, employers and society must become more empathetic to families grieving the death of a baby through stillbirth or miscarriage, says a Baylor University researcher who helped form Cradled, a Waco-based nonprofit serving bereaved families.

New Delhi: BSNL has decided to upgrade Broadband speed to minimum 2mbps at no additional cost for all the Broadband customers on PAN-India Basis from 1st October 2015.

Amid an outcry of poor civic amenities in cities bursting at seams, work on the Smart cities with state of the art facilities-- automatic traffic lights, sprawling solar panels dotting neat dwellings, clean green campuses, digitized working, round the clock vigil through close circuit cameras, has picked up momentum. Visions are coming on drawing boards and future 98 smart cities identified. Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir have to pick up one each soon to touch 100 cities mark.

New Delhi: Minister of state for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan launched Sahaj - the online release of new LPG connections, through the portal mylpg.in to enable customers to register for new LPG connections online, as well as make on line payments for the same. 

New Delhi: Within two months of the launch of the Housing for All (Urban) Mission, 15 States have signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation committing themselves to implement six mandatory reforms essential for making a success of the housing mission in urban areas. 305 cities and towns also have been identified in nine of these states for beginning construction of  houses for the urban poor.

Agra: Public sector company Power Grid said the ₹12,000-crore transmission line between Assam and Agra having 6,000-MW capacity will be commissioned by month-end.