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As many as 1,200 cows – mostly abandoned, sick and injured – have found a saviour in 59-year-old German national Friederike Irina Bruning. When she landed in India from Berlin in 1978 as a tourist, she had no inkling of the life destiny had in store for her. “I came as a tourist and understood that

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that a national effort is needed to further strengthen country’s democratic foundations. He was addressing the gathering after releasing the Book ‘Loktantra ke utsav ki ankahi kahani’ authored by Dr. S.Y.Quraishi, here today. The Chief

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, launched a nationwide sanitation campaign, ‘Swachhta hi Seva’, at Ishwariganj village in Kanpur today (September 15, 2017). He also administered the ‘Swachhta hi Seva’ pledge to all present there whereby they resolved to create a clean, healthy and new

The Andhra Pradesh Government today assured the centre that over five lakh affordable houses will be built in urban areas of the State under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in the next fifteen months. Progress of PMAY(Urban) in the State was discussed in detail when the Andhra Pradesh Minister of

The Olympic Task Force has recommended that stipend of Rs 50,000 per month be paid to the elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympic, Asian Games or Common Wealth Games to meet pocket expenses. The Government, accepting the recommendation, today took the decision to give a stipend of Rs 50,000 per

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the Centre is considering bringing back retired teachers not more than 75 years old and with "good teaching record" to fill in the large number of vacancies in centrally funded institutions and universities. He said these retired teachers could be

In a drive lasting 10 days, the Crime Branch and NGO Sathi rescued 15 kids and reunited them with their families. The children aged between 10 and 16 years belong to poor families. The children, brought to Delhi from different parts of the country, were found eating out of garbage dumps when rescued

Praveen Teotia, 32-year-old Shaurya Chakra winner and former Marine commando took four bullets during the operation to neutralize terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008. Hit in the lung and in an ear, he became partially hearing impaired. After being given a non-active duty job

Indians could live four years longer on average, if India is able to reduce air pollution to comply with the World Health Organisation’s standards, according to the Air Quality-Life Index (AQLI) tool developed by the Energy Policy Institute at The University of Chicago (EPIC). In Delhi, which was

The Ministry of Women & Child Development has invited nominations for the Nari Shakti Puraskars 2017. This is the "Highest Civilian Honor for Women" conferred on International Women’s Day, 8 th March, every year . The objective of the award is to acknowledge and recognize the services of individuals

Jamshedpur, in Jharkhand, shows a unique way to tackle cleanliness. A government urban body in Jamshedpur has announced it is going to give away smartphones to people who click the best selfie with a dustbin, as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign. The Mango Notified Area Committee (MNAC), which

When a child reaches higher classes the most difficult task for the child and the parent is to decide as to which stream one should go for. Many a times it is the friends who decide, many a times it is forced by the parents and rarely it is selected as per the capabilities of the child. Many experts