Miscellaneous

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will hold a quiz on environment - ‘Prakriti Khoj’ throughout the country. The quiz is planned in five rounds and the qualifying round will begin on September 25, 2017 by paying tribute to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary. The

Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, is a place where everything is ferried from the hinterland. It is a logistics challenge to move all types of waste out of the glacier so that these do not become environmental hazard. Since October 2014, when Swachch Bharat Abhiyan commenced, Siachen tr

After school, 15-year-old Soni Khatun starts knocking on doors at the “EJC basti” in Kolkata, looking for children like her, speaking to them, asking whether they go to school or if their families are planning to get them married. Armed with an old notebook, she carefully notes down the replies. Soo

Delhi has been consistently ranked among the most polluted cities in the world when it comes to air quality. Desperate situations demand urgent measures. In this case, the solution can be as simple as planting trees. To help improve Delhi's air quality Hero-TOI Green Drive was launched by Hero MoroC

This is another success story from Ekal. Apart from basic education Ekal also provides skill development training under the Gramothan Yojna at Ekal's Gramothan Resource Centres. At one such resource centre in Jharkhand training for computer literacy and stitching is also given. Here, one Supriya Kan

As many as 1,200 cows – mostly abandoned, sick and injured – have found a saviour in 59-year-old German national Friederike Irina Bruning. When she landed in India from Berlin in 1978 as a tourist, she had no inkling of the life destiny had in store for her. “I came as a tourist and understood that

In a drive lasting 10 days, the Crime Branch and NGO Sathi rescued 15 kids and reunited them with their families. The children aged between 10 and 16 years belong to poor families. The children, brought to Delhi from different parts of the country, were found eating out of garbage dumps when rescued

Praveen Teotia, 32-year-old Shaurya Chakra winner and former Marine commando took four bullets during the operation to neutralize terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008. Hit in the lung and in an ear, he became partially hearing impaired. After being given a non-active duty job

The Ministry of Women & Child Development has invited nominations for the Nari Shakti Puraskars 2017. This is the "Highest Civilian Honor for Women" conferred on International Women’s Day, 8 th March, every year . The objective of the award is to acknowledge and recognize the services of individuals

Jamshedpur, in Jharkhand, shows a unique way to tackle cleanliness. A government urban body in Jamshedpur has announced it is going to give away smartphones to people who click the best selfie with a dustbin, as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign. The Mango Notified Area Committee (MNAC), which admi

We usually read of news of lakhs of pending cases in our Courts or hear of cases pending for years. However, here is some good news. For the first time, as many as four states and a Union Territory have managed to bring down cases pending for over 10 years+ in their subordinate courts to almost zero

Widows of two soldiers who died in the line of duty, turned a new leaf in their lives by becoming officers themselves. What sets Lieutenants Swati Mahadik and Nidhi Dubey apart is that they are widows of soldiers who died on duty. Swati lost her husband, Colonel Santosh Mahadik, in an anti-terror op