Delhi – NCT

Under the November sun, 27 young women participated in what the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) calls the country’s first inter-state women’s blind cricket tournament. As the temperature rose through the day, so did the competition, with cheers on both sides getting louder. The

Bearing the title of Safai Champs, 11 students of a government girls’ school are spearheading the cause of solid waste segregation in Ambedkar Nagar, Sangam Vihar and Tigrim — the localities which are also home to these girls. Under the mentorship of Teach for India fellow Harshita Trikha (23)

An ADIP-RVY Distribution Camp for free of cost distribution of Aids and Assistive Living Devices to Divyangjans and Senior Citizens in BPL category under RashtriyaVayoshriYojana (RVY) was organized by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice &

Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone of National Institute of Homeopathy at Narela, today. This will be a National level Institute and would be established as an extension of National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata. The Minister said that Ministry has

At 1,844 corneas, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) recorded its highest ever donations in 2017, according to the data from the National Eye Bank. The donor corneas are transplanted in people with corneal blindness. The National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) estimates

Sitting in a packed “classroom” operating out of a shack, 50-year-old Pankaj Kandpal walks amid two dozen students, teaching them the basics of Hindi sentence construction. As he reads out a word, the students repeat in unison. Some, however, appear disinterested. But Kandpal says he has high hopes

Capital city Delhi may soon have a green fuel which will be cleaner than CNG. Testing to begin on H-CNG (hydrogen CNG). Following a report submitted by the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority to the apex court, the Supreme Court had last month directed the Union government and

Researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology , Delhi have developed, in collaboration with San Jose University in the US, an antivenom using an artificially designed peptide that effectively neutralises the poison of several snakes, including the four common in India -- Indian cobra, common

A bunch of freshers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will provide free coaching to engineering aspirants who cannot afford institutes that cost a fortune to crack the Joint Entrance Examination. A group of 30 volunteers have launched the teaching project titled ‘Aarohan’, where they

The first period—happiness class — at Kautilya Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in south Delhi’s Chirag Enclave has just begun. The teacher, Umesh Kumar, writes on the chalkboard in neat, cursive letters: ‘Happiness Class’. The walls have several colourful posters made by the students, including

Most of the time we read negative news of our police force. And such news have made a wrong perception among us. Read about the story of courage of these 3 policeman.... In a dramatic rescue operation, three policemen risked their lives to save a 50-year-old woman who was dangling from the balcony

In the recent past we have been reading many stories of how the youth from weaker economic sections are excelling in their carrier - be it in getting jobs, be it in getting selected in the best professional institutes, be it in international sports competitions or elsewhere. And we must compliment