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This is the story of a 11 year old Seema Meena of village Rawal, some twenty kms from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. She is a national level Hand Ball player. However, her dreams of moving ahead only got wings when the district collector, Sri K C Verma, knocked on her doors one day. Verma convinced

32 year old Anshu Jamsenpa of Bomdilla, the headquarters of West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, in Arunachal Pradesh has created history. She has become the first woman to have climbed Everest twice in a span of just 5 days. Another record to her credit is that she is the first Indian woman

This is a story of a village in Jharkhand. As water scarcity forces many urban residents to rely on tanker dole, a village around 35km southeast of Jamshedpur enjoys piped drinking water 24/7 thanks mainly to self-help. All 1,617 residents of over 300 households of Durku village in Kuldiha panchayat

Over 2,000 students of Kendriya Vidyalayas will be part of a pilot project in which they would be taught science and mathematics on tablets. Initiated by the HRD ministry to enhance learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, the students will not only access the

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has announced that doctors who will be posted in rural area will get a 20% incentive. It may be mentioned that presently there is shortage of doctors in rural government hospitals and health centres. This step of the government will encourage doctors to serve

Rifath Sharook is just 18 years, a student of Class 12 has built a satellite which the scientists say is the lightest satellite made till date. Rifath built the satellite as part of a contest organised by the US space agency.The satellite, named Kalam SAT – after former India President Dr APJ Abdul

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the setting up of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (lARI) in Assam. The Institute will come up on 587 acre of land provided by the Govt. of Assam. lARI-Assam would be a Post-Graduate

For skills development of youth in coastal areas, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Rural Development have signed a MoU for convergence of Shipping Ministry’s prestigious project Sagaramala and Rural Development’ Ministry's flagship programme Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU GKY)

Before an Ekal school started in village Chodampalli in Anantpur anchal of Andhra Pradesh the villagers had little knowledge of the national festivals. All this has changed today. Seeing the students of Ekal singing national anthem on 26th January and 15th August the villagers have also started

Minister for Information & Broadcasting Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu has announced a separate 24x7 DD channel for Jharkhand. The Government was putting up a vision document for a 24x7 DD Jharkhand channel for the people of the state and the proposal was included in the 3 years Action Plan of DD. However

Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search

Students after finishing their Class XII will soon have the facility to pursue hockey and archery in Jharkhand. Government has started work in establishing centres of excellence in Ranchi for hockey and archery. These centres will have state-of-the-art training facilities and will be a big boost for