Miscellaneous

Students from IIT-Roorkee have developed a helmet that can be worn like a collar around the neck and inflates like an airbag before impact during an accident. Made of Kevlar, a synthetic fibre used to make bullet-proof jackets, the inflatable helmet offers better protection than traditional ones

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) conducted its 35 th Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) meeting of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) – Urban on 25.06.2018 where a total of 3,18,900 houses from 6 States/UTs were approved. With this, the PMAY (U) has approved more than 51

The Government proposes to set up 3000 Van Dhan Kendras involving 30,000 SHGs across the country under the Van Dhan Scheme of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. In a new game changing initiative, the Prime Minister had launched the Van Dhan scheme of Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED on 14 th April

The birth of a child is celebrated by people showering the newborn with gifts, from expensive clothes to toys. The celebrations in Ranmala, a small village near Pune, however, are silent but impactful with a tree being planted for the birth of each child in the village. People in Ranmala mark

Every morning at 8 am, residents of Faridabad’s Nangla Jogian village drop what they are doing and stand in attention, hands by their side, as 16 loudspeakers come to life with the familiar tune of the national anthem. They know it’s time thanks to the announcement: “It is now time for the national

Manoj Kumar Saini can be easily mistaken for just another roadside dweller. However, the 26-year-old is nothing short of a superhero in UP's Muzaffarnagar district. That's because in the last one year, Saini has risked his life on seven occasions and has saved the same number of people. Police and

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

For three months, starting 18 Jun 2018, the Indian Air Force would create an airbridge between Pithoragarh and Gunji, in an effort to airlift 1080 registered passengers to Gunji to enable them to continue their journey for the coveted annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. The requirement for the IAF to

India’s 150 poorest but mineral-rich districts could get a major facelift in the next one year, coinciding with the 2019 general elections, provided the state governments are able to spend over ~18,800 crore they have from mining companies under the district mining fund. The fund was created through

A small village near Pune has become the torchbearer of the state government's massive tree plantation drive-this year, between July 1 and 31, 13 crore saplings will be planted across Maharashtra. Ranmala, a village in Khed taluka, was drought prone. Today, Ranmala is water sufficient and it owes

Exhausted by the overbearing grey concrete that is creeping up on Mumbai like some futuristic horror film, a growing number of people have decided to do their bit to cultivate little green utopias, sometimes as rebel gardeners. These 'guerilla gardeners' range from a dentist who seed-bombs forests

Has the alcohol ban imposed in 2016 turned Bihar into a land of milk and honey, and helped reduce crime rates? Two early studies commissioned by the state government seem to suggest so. A study by the Development Management Institute (DMI), Patna showed a 17.5% increase in the purchase of milk