Old or new, in any language in the world, cinema is a visual medium, which due to its very nature stays out of bounds for the visually challenged. Also, dialogues and soundtrack are vital to a film that the hearing impaired can't fathom. To transcend these real difficulties are audio described
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The Pangi valley in Chamba is known for its rustic beauty and rich culture. Pangwala, as the inhabitants of Pangi are known, is an underprivileged community. The condition of women in this community is even more miserable. Most of them illiterate, confined to their homes, loaded with social burdens
Where there's a will, there's a well. A 30-year-old resident of Harmu Housing Colony in Ranchi is showing the way. Durgesh Kumar Singh, who works with a voluntary organisation, and his friends are giving dead boreholes a fresh lease of life by turning them into water harvesting structures for just
The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous body of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, has indigenously developed and demonstrated Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD) technology for conversion of sea water to drinking water. Three desalination plants each with a capacity of
The 2.5 crore th LPG connection under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was given to Smt. Gouri Sarkar of Raghunathgunj by President Shri Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in a function held today at Jangipur, West
This is the story Pema Gyatso Bhutia who was 12 years old when a friend introduced him to Spasmo Proxyvon (SP), a painkiller but an addictive pharmaceutical drug. Bhutia, now 30, recalled a period when his family ill-treated and distrusted him, his sister was embarrassed to acknowledge him on the
Pankaj Roy, 14, dances to music he cannot hear. And he lets his paintings speak what he cannot express in words. His dancing is yet to progress beyond the Tripura contest circuit, but his painting has earned him the top prize in a nationwide contest conducted by the Indian Council for Child Welfare
The World Heritage Committer of UNESCO, in its meeting at Krakow, Poland, has announced on Twitter naming walled city of Ahmedabad as World Heritage City. With this announcement Ahmedabad gets the honour of becoming the first World Heritage City in India. Following matter has been taken from the
This is a story of Laxmiben Ajitsinh Dabhi, who has turned into an entrepreneur. This 48-year-old Class VIII pass and mother of three from Chhipiyal village in Kheda’s Kathlal taluka has no land. Her primary income is from three buffaloes — only one of which gives 5-10 litres milk daily at any given
Government, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), has set a target of construction of 57,000 kms of rural roads in 2017-18. This will provide connectivity to 16,600 habitations. As per ministry sources in the first quarter of the financial year 2017-18, 10,556 km PMGSY roads have been
Department of Revenue, Government of India and the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) are organizing GST- Ki -Master Class for six days, as per the following schedule – S. No. Topic Date & Time Hindi English 1 Registration and Migration 1630 hrs to 1730 hrs on 06/07/2017 1630 hrs to 1730 hrs
Very recently the news of one Ravi Teja, who is just 12 years old, has come in the media. He is filling potholes on the roads of Hyderabad, on his own. When asked about this, Ravi said that sometime back he had watched a family of three fall from their motorcycle because of a pothole - all of them