Lane after lane shows off brightly painted huts of all shapes and size. The orange gives way to shocking red which merges with the lilac. An eye-catching royal blue imbues a broken wooden door with a mysterious sense of life. Smudged white fills up the worn-out planks of the door to create a design
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When Rinku Kumari, 33, started visiting villages in Bihar’s Nalanda district to motivate people to build toilets, she realised it was no easy task. But even more difficult was to convince them to use those toilets. It took a map and some simple psychology to change an age-old habit. “Using colour
Indian Railways is raising an all-women patrol squad that will guard running trains, ensure women’s safety at busy stations and assist women and children on railway premises, seeking to triple the number of female personnel in the Railway Protection Force (RPF). Indian Railways plans to add 4,500
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been implementing the ‘National Policy and Action Plan’ since 2015 to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE). This envisages a multi-pronged strategy involving security and development related measures. MHA had categorized 106 districts in 10 states as Left
R K Singh, Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, launched a number of initiatives for the welfare of the underprivileged, on Saturday. At this occasion, Singh expressed the Government’s commitment to provide 24x7 power supply to all. He said that every household in country
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) soon plans to install more than 500 plastic bottle-crushing machines across the city, to help in implementation of the ban. More than 30 lakh plastic bottles are circulated in the city on a daily basis. The machines, which the civic body will obtain
Shantanu Lodh, a pioneer in performance arts, was in the prime of his career when he met with an accident two years ago which left him in a coma. When doctors couldn't get him out of it, and his friends failed to find someone to take care of him, they shifted him to Anandam rehabilitation centre in
Union Rural Development Ministe Narendra SIngh Tomar on Thursday said his ministry has chosen 21,000 villages across the country for saturation of seven Central welfare schemes during the 22-day "Gram Swaraj Abhiyan" programme to be started from Saturday. A total of 1,000 Central government
The government will expand its flagship rural income generation programme to cover 10 million more households across states, officials said on Friday. The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) — a scheme to generate new income avenues and provide financial stability to rural households — will be
On his 76th birthday last year, Ramesh Kumar Vij decided to give a unique gift to other senior citizens. Along with Kritarth Malhotra, he launched HUM Communities, an online community-based job platform dedicated to finding and creating job opportunities for elderly people. “As an electrical
Sandeep is a 12- year-old who can leap 13 feet in the long jump, ranks second in his class, and can calculate the cost of a dozen bananas in a split second if given the current rate. Till a year ago he was a street child. Today, he is among 13 such children in west Delhi who have earned one of the
Beginning with the introduction of 57 bio-toilets in one train i.e. Gwalior-Varanasi Bundelkhand Express in January 2011, Indian Railways has provided about 1,25,000 bio-toilets in its coaches till March 2018. This covers about 60% of coaching fleet of Indian Railways. During 2017-18, IR has