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The usually grey and drab concrete pillars of Delhi Metro have now got a green cover, at a small stretch of the Blue Line. In a first such initiative by Delhi Metro, eight pillars of the elevated Blue Line (Dwarka Sector 21-Vaishali/ Noida City Centre) between Mandi House and Pragati Maidan stations

The Milk production in the country during 2016-17 has achieved a remarkable progress by showing 20.13% growth as compared to 2013-14. Further, the production have been estimated to be increased by 6.4% in 2016-17 over 2015-16. In past the growth rate has been 6.3% in 2014-15; 6.3% in 2015-16 and 6.4

Teachers of 17-year-old Shruti Tiwari, a resident of Matehiya village in Lakhimpur Kheri district's Bheera town, say that she will be remembered by Class X students in UP for years to come. Shruti, who found herself struggling with science subjects in 2015, started making her own notes in Hindi

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

This is the story of how an initiative of a voluntary organisation has changed the environment in one Mumbai slum. Usually the slums are very dirty, but not this one. Here, the walls are all painted and the complete look has changed. This looks more like Italy's Positano and has become a tourist

Ekal Abhiyan with its five-fold education programme reaches 65,000 villages, working for the empowerment of the people in remote Bharat. Ekal has made an ambitious target of reaching a lakh of villages by 2022. The new video, released this week, gives the latest information on the movement. The link

AT 3,300 METRES above sea level, in Ladakh, a team of specialists from Delhi’s AIIMS has achieved a rare feat — 112 knee and hip replacement surgeries. That number also tells the story of how these doctors have been conducting temporary camps in a region that so far had little recourse when it came

Convicts undergoing life imprisonment at the Puzhal Central Prison here are giving a fresh lease of life to demonetised currency, converting the shredded notes into customised stationery. A senior official said the stationery is being used in state government departments and their agencies. Everyday

In the just released SRS bulletin (2016) India has registered a significant decline in under-five child mortality. According to the bulletin, under-five child mortality (U5MR) of India showed an impressive decline by 9%, a 4 points decline from 43 per 1000 in 2015 to 39 in 2016. The rate of decline

As per preliminary reports received from the States, the total area sown under Rabi crops as on 12 th January 2018 stands at 609.51 lakh hectares as compared to 615.09 lakh hectare this time in 2017. Wheat has been sown/transplanted in 295.53 lakh hectares, rice in 20.57 lakh hectares, pulses in 160

The Assam government on Friday distributed scooties to 1,000 girl students who had excelled in the State Board Class XII final examinations in 2017, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal saying it was one move on part of his government to accelerate the process of women empowerment in the state

At least 39% of the total number of people, who called the government’s National quit-line services, quit smoking or chewing tobacco after they received telephonic counselling four times, reveals data released by Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI). The data on the tobacco cessation programme