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Three brave Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) climbers are ready to scale Mount Everest-the world's tallest mountain peak. The trio-Sandeep Tolia (42), Poonam Rana (21) and Swarnalata Dalai (20), who are back from Argentina after their Mount Aconcagua attempt will leave the steel city on

Using state of the art technology, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital’s team of eminent ophthalmologists Dr.B.P.Kashyap and Dr.Bharti Kashyap along with Dr.Pritish Pronoy and Dr.Sunil Kumar, successfully removed cataract from the eyes of 125 men and women at the Sohri Chandravanshi Hospital at Bishrampur

Four of the 66 exams centres created in Gaya for the Bihar School Examination Board’s Class X examination are all-woman centres with the centre superintendents, invigilators, static magistrates, patrolling magistrates, zonal magistrates, police officers, constables and others being women. The all

In the 9 th Executive Committee meeting of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), projects worth nearly Rs 4,000 crore were approved including a 20 MLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for tannery cluster at Jajmau in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. This 3-phased project at an estimated cost of Rs

Indian scientists have developed a super critical carbon di oxide Brayton test loop facility that would help generate clean energy from future power plants including solar thermal. This next generation technology loop was developed indigenously by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. This is

From walking the streets in Kerala, begging for alms with his sister as a seven-year-old, to now looking forward to his month-long stay in Spain alongside the stars of iconic La Liga club Real Madrid, life really took an unimaginable spin for R Manikandan, now aged 14. The six-foot lanky teenager is

For the ongoing railway recruitment drive, Indian Railways has extended the upper age limit for all categories by two years. The national transporter is hiring around 90,000 employees for group C and D categories. "For the ongoing recruitment of Group C Level I and II posts, ministry of railways

If properly visualised, well planned and then well executed, with a good supervision, the adopted villages of Members of Parliament can bring wonders for the people. Here is an example of how Mahilong, the adopted village of local Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Poddar, is changing for the better. This

One of the worst Maoist-affected places in the country, Bastar in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district got its first business process outsourcing (BPO) centre on Sunday, with about 400 tribal youths being hired to work in it. Called Yuva, the BPO is managed by a private firm, Sixth Generation

Almost every afternoon over the last three months, the buzz around Maddox Square Park in Kolkata’s Ballygunge has been all about them. For two hours, they would take turns to slip into the driver’s seat of the autorickshaw, slowly gaining respect and confidence with every drive. Very soon, one of

Joined at the head since birth and recently separated in a landmark surgery at AIIMS, Odisha twins Jaga and Kalia are likely to be discharged next month. Sources said the twins had recuperated well after surgery. “Jaga is taking normal feed. He is healthier. Kalia is little weak. He is on mechanical

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved the renaming of several villages whose names were considered by the local population to be derogatory to a particular gender or community or simply having a negative connotation. According to government officials, some of the villages renamed last year