Haryana

Northern Railway, as a pilot project plans to undertake a number of socio-economic activities around the Farrukhnagar railway station (near Gurugram) to benefit the rural communities located there. The activities would include providing sports infrastructure for children along with career

Adeepur village in Tijara Tehsil of Alwar that recorded zero literacy for women in 2011 census report has seen zero girl drop outs in its primary school in 2017-18 academic year. The literacy rates of women in all these tehsils was above 30%, has over 100 schools where enrolment of girls is at par

"Poo to Power" may sound awkward and impractical, but Aditya Aggarwal and his brother Amit have done it in Karnal, Haryana. Two industries, one producing wire nails and another tinner rivets, owned by the family run on 100% electricity produced from cattle dung they get from nearby 'gaushalas' or

On 3rd September 2107 we had posted a news item on Mewat's community radio centre. Continuing this story we are posting another story published in The Indian Express, today. This story talks how this has empowered the women here. When it started broadcasting in 2012, the station received 700 calls —

16-year-old Manu Bhaker perfected her aim in a manual shooting range in a small school in Haryana's Jhajjar. Manu has already contributed to two gold medals for India in the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico. This urge to hit the big time is inspiring for children in Goria and surrounding

Manu Bhaker, 16, etched her name in the history books by clinching women's 10m air pistol gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. She became India's youngest and probably world's third youngest shooter to win a World Cup gold. Rifle

Residents of a village in Haryana’s Nuh district are looking to an unusual source to generate employment — wall art. Once dull and dreary, the walls of Kherla village now sport vibrant colours and tell stories of people who reside in the area. While some walls are decorated with stars in bright

For the first time, Haryana claimed to have logged the highest ever sex ratio of 914 girls against 1,000 boys in 2017. It was 900 in 2016 and 876 in 2015. As per the date, released by the state government on Saturday, out of the 5,09,290 children born in the state from January to December 2017

Today Haryana, which has one of the worst sex ratios in the country, is the only Indian state to have all-women police stations in each of its 22 districts. Sonepat has two. Ambala SHO Seema Singh says it’s easier for a woman to talk to another woman than to a man. “Police have a negative image

Some municipal corporations are planning to make rules for compulsory compost plants in big residential colonies to help in managing waste. While these rules are made and come into effect, some individual efforts have yielded good results. Here is a story of a residential colony in Gurgram in

1000 ई-रिक्‍शा ‘स्‍मार्ट ई’ का पहला जत्‍था गुरूग्राम से रवाना Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation flagged off a fleet of first batch of 1000 E-rickshaws from Huda City Centre metro station in Gurugram on

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of a driver’s training institute and a Secondary School under the SMARTGRAM initiative at village Dhaula, Gurugram (Haryana) today. Three new Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs) at Mahendragarh, Ambala and Palwal were also