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Not far from the densely packed industrial belt in Ahmedabad's Pirana Piplaj areas where 1,500 factories and warehouses jostle for space, a 29-acre green zone, packed with 47,000 trees, now brings a whiff of fresh air to the Sabarmati, named the third most polluted river in the country by the

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal for revision of cost norms with annual cost indexation for Supplementary Nutrition (SN) for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi Services and Adolescent Girls (out of school 11-14 years) under the

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

While the civic agencies battle with the city's mounting garbage and overflowing landfill sites, in the middle of the thickly populated east Delhi, a family hardly generates any waste. "All it took was a visit to a friend who was using the waste to make 'black gold'," said Priyanka Dev, a housewife

The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi has approved the revamped Khelo India programme at a cost of Rs.1,756 crore for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. This marks a watershed moment in the history of Indian sports, as the programme aims at mainstreaming sport as a tool for individual

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will hold a quiz on environment - ‘Prakriti Khoj’ throughout the country. The quiz is planned in five rounds and the qualifying round will begin on September 25, 2017 by paying tribute to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary. The

Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, is a place where everything is ferried from the hinterland. It is a logistics challenge to move all types of waste out of the glacier so that these do not become environmental hazard. Since October 2014, when Swachch Bharat Abhiyan commenced, Siachen

After school, 15-year-old Soni Khatun starts knocking on doors at the “EJC basti” in Kolkata, looking for children like her, speaking to them, asking whether they go to school or if their families are planning to get them married. Armed with an old notebook, she carefully notes down the replies

Delhi has been consistently ranked among the most polluted cities in the world when it comes to air quality. Desperate situations demand urgent measures. In this case, the solution can be as simple as planting trees. To help improve Delhi's air quality Hero-TOI Green Drive was launched by Hero

This is another success story from Ekal. Apart from basic education Ekal also provides skill development training under the Gramothan Yojna at Ekal's Gramothan Resource Centres. At one such resource centre in Jharkhand training for computer literacy and stitching is also given. Here, one Supriya

The world’s cheapest and smallest ventilator, which looks like a clunky cellphone and can easily slip into your back pocket, has been developed by a young robotics engineer in Delhi in collaboration with a neurosurgeon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. “It is almost 450 times smaller

Seema Kumari couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift as she turns 15 today. The Class IX student from Jharkhand's Ormanjhi district, who held her first football at the age of 10, is among a select bunch (in picture) picked to join a training course for coaches by Real Sociedad's La Liga team