Miscellaneous

Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra shows what granting of community rights over forest produce can do to the lives of poor tribal people. And this was done after bamboo was re-classified as a 'grass' or 'minor forest produce'. After this is the time to provide training for making of bamboo craft

Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, today launched the Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana, MSDE’s flagship scheme on entrepreneurship education and training. The scheme spans over five years (2016-17 to 2020-21) with a project cost of Rs. 499.94 crore, and will provide entrepreneurship education and training to over 7

Minister of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu today said that the Central Government is working on new policy initiatives to encourage private investments in climate friendly and sustainable public transport systems like Metro rail, Non-motorised Transport and other low carbon emitting systems

For the 1 st time in the country, a LNG fueled bus has been launched today by Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in the presence of Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan at Thiruvananthapuram. It has been a joint effort of Petronet LNG Limited (PLL), Indian Oil

At a time when instances of religious intolerance are reported from different parts of the country, a 66-year-old Muslim is championing the cause of communal harmony by leading a movement to preserve temples. This is the story of retired school peon Yasin Pathan who started the ‘Save the Temples’

The Jharkhand tribal have been traditionally painting the mud walls of their dwellings. These paintings have recently found place at a Paris art gallery. All this happened as a renowned architecture photographer from Germany, Didi Von Schaewen, visited Hazaribagh four times in the last few years and

Kerala and Tamil Nadu have also rolled out the National Food Security Act (NFSA). With this, now the Act has been implemented in all the States and Union Territories. As a result, now 81.34 crore persons will get wheat at Rs. 2/ kg and rice at Rs. 3/ kg. This was announced by Union Minister of

Inspired by Prime Minister Modi's vision of making India open-defecation-free by 2020, a soldier of the Indo-Tibetian Border Police has decided to donate Rs.57000 to construct toilets and make his village open-defecation free. This soldier is Vikas Thakur from Sirmor, in Himachal Pradesh. Read more

On the auspicious occasion of "Bhaiya Dooj" Jharkhand government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to distribute LPG connection, cylinders and gas stove to one lakh and ten thousand families who are among below poverty line (BPL). In the next three years some 23 lakh BPL families will

This is the story of a Chhattisgarh lady cop who has 7,20,408 followers (at the time of writing this) on FaceBook. She has gained these 7 lakh+ followers in just 20 months and that too without any help from a PR agency or with the help of paid followers. Through the FaceBook she has helped a number

This is the story of how voluntary organisations help the rural households in the real sense. Such efforts make so much of difference in the life of people - how they are empowered. Merely giving doles is not the answer - it is such work that helps the needy in the long run. Must appreciate the work

This is a story from Jharkhand. In the Ghatshila sub-divison, forty young boys and girls, including a reformed hardcore extremist, were given training by Indian Reserve Battalion. This extensive training was for 3 months. On completion of their training these youth have been given employment by a