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A group of tribal artists from Potka block (some 45 kms from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand) came together to understand the process of uploading the profile of their creative pieces online. "The number of mobile-carrying citizens is increasing by leaps and bounds, and to take advantage of it we have

A Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) will come up in Ranchi in 3 months. This will function under the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals. The Institute will offer courses on skill development, technology support and promote further research in the field of plastics

A former Salwa Judum vigilante who builds roads in shadow of Maoists in Chhattisgarh. Pramod Rathore’s reputation as a member of the now-disbanded Salwa Judum vigilante group that fought Maoists with state patronage is, however, an advantage. He is perhaps a contractor like no other in the country

In what has come as respite amid rising medical expenses, a clinic at Mumbai’s Ghatkopar station is treating patients for a fee of Re1. The 12-hour outpatient ward of the clinic in Ghatkopar has three MBBS doctors and visiting MD specialists The clinic, a first-of-its-kind initiative by brothers Dr

In the schools that we have studied we rarely realise that many of the support staff in school have not studied much. One school in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand has come out with a unique programme wherein students of the school have become teachers and are conducting a crash-course to impart literacy to

The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Florence Nightingale Awards to 35 nurses from across the country on the occasion of International Nurses Day at the Rashrapati Bhavan, here on Friday, in the presence of Shri J P Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare. The President

The Income Tax (IT) Department has made it easy for taxpayers to link their PAN with Aadhaar. Responding to grievances of taxpayers regarding difficulties in linking PAN with Aadhaar as their names did not match in both systems (e.g., names with initials in one and expanded initials in another), the

Taking a big step towards making the campus disabled-friendly, Miranda House has become the first Delhi University college to put up "digital vision signages" on its premises to help its 70 visually challenged students find their way across the college. Under the "mapped by digital vision" programme

‘क्लॉथ बैंक‘ ला रहा गरीबों के चेहरे पर मुस्कान मुख्यमंत्री श्रीमती वसुंधरा राजे की मंशा के अनुरूप शहर की कच्ची बस्तियों में गुजर बसर कर रहे गरीब परिवारों के व्यक्तियों को उपयोगी कपड़े मुहैया कराने के लिए जयपुर जिला प्रशासन की अभिनव पहल वंचित वर्ग के लोगों के चेहरे पर मुस्कुराहट ला रही है। जिला कलक्टर

In Kadus, a sleepy village in Maharashtra's Rajgurunagar town, a handpicked batch of 70 students trained for the past one year for the IIT joint entrance examination (JEE) has achieved a 100% success rate with all of them clearing the mains. So have 149 students trained at Bundi in Rajasthan (50)

A week after Border Security Force (BSF) head constable Prem Sagar was beheaded by Pakistani intruders on the Line of Control (Loc) in Jammu and Kashmir, his wife received donations worth Rs 13.59 lakh from a portal ‘India’s Bravehearts’ or 'Bharat Ke Veer' launched by Union home ministry in

UNTIL A year ago, Santosh Thakur would take his sacks and crates of peas, tomatoes, capsicum, beans, cauliflower and ginger to the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Solan Mandi, 46 km south of Shimla, and watch as commission agents, or arthiyas, called for bids and sealed them on his