Positive News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Highway Development Programme for Char Dham on Tuesday. The total investment for building the 900 km long highway to connect the holy shrines of Uttarakhand is estimated to be 12000 crores. With this, pilgrimage to the holy abodes of Gangotri, Yamunotri

It is heartening to note that the first ever tribal paramilitary battalion is getting ready. 33% of its recruits will be women. Recruitment are likely to be completed by mid-January. News in Indian Express say that these recruits will join in April 2017 for basic training. CRPF, for the first time

Promoting digital payment options is an integral part of Government’s overall strategy to weed out black money and corruption from public life. NITI Aayog has been tasked to undertake a comprehensive campaign on advocacy, awareness and co-ordinate handholding efforts among general public, micro

Rawel Singh, 82, went out for a morning walk in Gurugram in Haryana, on the 21st December. But he could not remember his way back home. Later, one Mohit Agarwal saw him standing outside a mall, clad in boxer shorts and a sweater. Singh was shivering and looked lost. Mohit approached him and asked if

Crowdfunding, which started in India a few years ago -- a process in which people seek funds in small amounts for their start-ups and projects from a large number of individuals -- is fast becoming an instrument for social change. Majority of the fundraisers on crowdfunding platforms such as Milaap

This is the story of one Karimul Haque, a tea garden worker in his early 50s, who ferries the ill, the poor and the fragile to and from the district hospital on his bike. In rural India the road conditions are pretty bad and so is the medical facilities. If, in a remote village, there is a medical

In urban area one can see small bill boards nailed on the trees almost on each one of them on the sides of main thoroughfares. This advertising space is free and so being misused by many. Tree lovers say that this harms the growth and the life of the tree as the nails get rusted and become poisonous

Delhi government has decided to build waste-to-energy plants at all its wholesale food markets. If it starts working properly and regularly this will be a major boost to the environment issues of capital city. And may be it could be replicated elsewhere too. At any of the wholesale markets around

Here is a story of a auto driver who foresaw four years back what PM Narendra Modi is talking about today. This is in respect of the demonetisation announced on 8th November and subsequent action being taken on less cash economy. This interview by Rasheeda Bhagat of a Chennai auto driver Annadurai

Most of the time we keep on hearing negative news of the Police force. Here is a very positive story from Simdega in Jharkhand where the police have plans to install solar lights in 10 villages for the students, so that their studies are not affected. Ten non-electrified remote villages have been

This is the story of Ram Chandra, an executive at the Google headquarters in Seattle, USA. Hailing from Sojat town in Rajasthan, Ram Chandra's father Tejaram Sankhla is a labourer loading sacks of heena in the town. Tejaram need not work now as Ram Chandra can easily support him but he does not like

(This news in English also given below.) पिछले दशकों में विशेषकर शिक्षा एवं स्वास्थ्य के प्रति आमजन जागरूक हुआ है। वहीं कैंसर, हृदय रोग सहित कई असाध्य रोगो के फैलाव से जनजीवन त्रस्त है जिसकी जकड़न में आए गरीब एवं पिछड़़े तबके को गंभीर बीमारियों के इलाज में अपना घर बार तक बेचने को मजबूर होना पड़ता है।