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The Central Government has announced opening of at least one Krishi Vigyan Kendra in all districts of the country. This will provide advanced Agriculture technical assistance to the farmers near their farms itself. Besides this, Central Agriculture and farmers welfare minister Shri. Radha Mohan

A MoU has been signed between the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), an autonomous institute under Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of AYUSH. The main

The multi-modal terminal at Sahibganj in Jharkhand is soon to become a reality. The Inland Waterways Authority of India has recently awarded the contract for construction of the terminal to Larson & Tourbo (L&T). With the targeted completion of Phase -1 in 2019, the state of the art terminal will

By now everyone must have heard of the tragic incident in Bhubaneswar where 20 patients died in a fire that occurred at the SUM Hospital. Amidst the news of deaths this TOI news has highlighted as to how a brave nurse showed courage and did her best to provide help. For about 40 minutes, Baby

So many times every day we receive request for need of blood by a patient, be it from friends, family or from unknown persons through the social media. There are even dedicated websites for this and a number of voluntary organisations in various parts of the country also help. News has come in the

Seeking to address the problem of anaemia in India, scientists of department of biotechnology (DBT) have developed an innovative way to fortify rice with iron which can be mixed with normal rice and consumed without compromising on its flavour. The fortified rice, manufactured using broken rice

Addressing the Regional Editors Conference in Chandigarh today, the Minister for Road Transport Highways & Shipping, Shri Nitin Gadkari gave an overview of his Ministry’s achievements as well as plans for future growth. Beginning with Shipping, he informed that at present the country has 12 Major

Sports Authority of India (SAI) will collaborate with some identified universities across the country to improve standards of training with a view to achieving excellence in sports. For this purpose, each Regional Director of SAI will identify one or two universities with good sports infrastructure

On the busy Delhi Jaipur Highway we often see accidents occurring because of heavy traffic and vehicles driving at high speed. To provide help police at Kothputli has come out with an innovative idea and promote highway wardens or police mitra. They are given special training to deal with the

Compliments to Shagun Goel for developing a mobile app which can help in fighting drug addiction. This Class XII student of DPS, RK Puram, Delhi, feels that app is a better option to fight drug abuse as most youths are now hooked to smartphones. Read more in Manash Gohain report in TOI.....

Using ground water, most of the rural population in villages are prone to water-borne diseases. It was a similar story for village Sadhopur in Greater Noida in UP till some time back. And then, initiated by the Enactus Shri Ram College of Commerce, a non-profit organisation with nearly 70,000

Every evening, after school homework or hockey practice, the boys and girls of Bhaini Sahib, a village near Ludhiana, grab their instruments and run to the music room. They learn to sing or play the sitar, sarod, tabla and dilruba. They learn compositions about peacocks dancing in the rain, and