Delhi – NCT

The number of children in Special Training Centres who could not even identify the alphabet reduced by around 19% after a reading campaign held in December 2018, as per figures presented by the education department’s Universal Elementary Education (UEE) mission. Special Training Centres are bridge

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is planning to start a programme to impart training pertaining road safety and traffic norms to students of civic-run schools under their jurisdiction. NDMC officials said the aim behind starting such a programme is to inculcate a sense of road safety and

An app developed by doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will help primary care physicians in diagnosing four neuro-development disorders in children. The free PedNeuroAiims Diagnostics app guides doctors through a set of questions and observations to diagnose whether a child

Come April, students studying in 24 government schools in the capital will be seen developing their “entrepreneurial mindsets” as part of the Delhi government’s Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC). Around 24,000 students from class 9 onwards will be listening to stories of entrepreneurs and

Mala Dutta, 56, achieved her dream of receiving a PhD degree on Friday, 34 years after she stepped out of college. What made it a doubly memorable occasion was that her 28-year-old daughter, Shreya Mishra, was with her to pick up her own doctoral degree the same day after they completed their PhD

They are students who use business for a “social revolution”. And, together, these aspiring entrepreneurs are pursuing community projects to reduce and recycle waste, solve sanitation issues and tackle malnutrition, one step at a time. The students, under the banner of Enactus, an international not

The city’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is getting a Rs 9,053-crore makeover that will more than double its institutional and clinical facilities and take the number of hospital beds from 2,084 now to at least 5,000 by 2024. The master plan, which received the approval of the

Colourful slippers of all sizes were lined outside room no. 22 of the Mandir Marg police station where children from nearby informal settlements had gathered to learn English, Mathematics, and more — an upgrade from their previous makeshift classroom on a pavement on Kali Bari Marg in New Delhi

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the “Waste to Wonder” park under the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion the Home Minister said that this park has set an example for others, as for the first time scrap has been used to create ‘Wealth from

In a bid to help adolescent girls living in slums, the Delhi government’s department of health will provide a pack of sanitary napkins to 50,000 girls per month at subsidised rates. The ‘Menstrual Hygiene Scheme’, an initiative by the central government, will be implemented for the first time in

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said cyber crimes pose a challenge to traditional policing and called upon the Police personnel to hone their skills to tackle the threats posed from the cyber world. Inaugurating the Cyber Prevention, Awareness & Detection Centre (CyPAD) of Delhi Police and

Buoyed by the success of a ‘natural sewage treatment plant (STP)’, the state government is planning at least 16 more such units to treat sewage flowing into the Yamuna. The natural STP in the heart of Bawana industrial area was installed in July last year. It uses natural material such as pebbles