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A school in Mumbai has started this unique programme to create awareness for conservation of water. They have made a water tank at the entrance and the students have been motivated to pour all the unused water when they leave for home. Read this motivating story published in DNA. Other schools

To ensure smokeless kitchens across rural India, 14.13 lakh LPG connections have been released to women of BPL families under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). The scheme is currently under operation in 487 districts of 17 states. Under this scheme, LPG connections are provided to women of

Madhya Pradesh government becomes the first in the country to have a Department of Happiness. Passed by the cabinet on 15th July this will be called "Anand Vibhag". The idea was first mooted by state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan some three months back. The department will identify the

IIT Madras has developed the “Green Building Cooling System” technology, which will regulate the entire air-conditioning system without harmful HFC chemicals. The technique will also reduce power bills by at least 30 per cent. In this technology at night, when India is significantly power surplus

The Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology and Law & Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad today formally launched new Transforming India website - www.transformingindia.mygov.in - in New Delhi. 'Transforming India' website is a repository for sharing the impact of various governance

The Ministry of Power has organised a "Painting Competition on Energy Conservation - 2016" for school students. The Ministry invites children to paint a world of imagination and discover the magic of clean, green and energy efficient future. It is this future that the children will inherit. The

दलहन उत्पादन बढ़ाने के लिए केंद्र सरकार द्वारा उठाए गए महत्वपूर्ण कदम देश में दलहन की बढ़ती कीमत पर नियंत्रण लगाने के लिए केद्र सरकार कई स्तर पर प्रयास कर रही है। एक तरफ सरकार विदेशों से दलहन आयात कर, और घरेलू स्तर पर जमाखोरों पर कार्रवाई कर जनता को राहत देने का प्रयास कर रही है, वहीं दूसरी ओर दलहन

One Meera Vashisht, a class VII student in US has raised 1.4 lakh Rupees through crowd funding to distribute LED bulbs to the underpriviledged. This Indian origin student learnt about the Ujala programme and came up with the idea of helping the poor to reduce their power bill and reducing CO2

A tribal woman in Uttar Pradesh's parched Bundelkhand has dug a well almost single-handedly for 40 families after her upper caste neighbours denied them access to a hand-pump. She took this bold step to dig a well when she was forced to stay without water for two days. Read this report by Shailvee

On the directions of the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri J P Nadda, Ministry of Health launched nationwide “Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)”, here today. The Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF) will be observed from 11th to 23rd July across the country. The

Gurugram or Gurgaon may soon become the first city in India to get a full-scale smart grid. This would help the city in getting rid of blackouts and also make it diesel gen-set free. The central government has given a grant of 273 cr of the total budgeted amount of 1382 cr for the first phase

This is the story of Harish Dhandev of Jaiselmer in Rajasthan who quit his job and started cultivating aloe vera and other crops on his 120-acre farmland. Turnover from his farmland is from Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 2 crore per annum now. The quality of aloe vera grown in desert area is so good that there