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Praggnanandhaa, youngest International Master, can claim the coveted chess norm in a few months. In the crowded verandah of Ramesh Babu’s one-storey apartment in Padi, on the outskirts of Chennai, is a purple-rimmed bicycle, its wheels smeared with fresh mud and earth. It belongs to Babu’s 11-year

This is an inspiring story of a Ranchi girl Priya who sells books in night time and studies in a management college in day time. Read this report by K. Bandopadhyay in Navbharat Times. दिन में मैनेजमेंट क्लास, रात को सड़्क पर बेजती है किताबें यह रांची की लड़की प्रिया, कोलकता में। आधी रात होने में

In the next couple of months, you will be able to get updates on crashes, congestion and other information of a highway section across 13 corridors while driving down these stretches. All India Radio through its FM channel will be providing this information. This service will cover more than 2,500km

In order to promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetisation scheme among rural population, the Ministry of Human Resource Developmet (HRD) is now roping in its Adult Education Bureau. Primarily responsible for imparting basic literacy among men and women, mostly in rural areas, the Bureau will

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is taking various steps to promote Khadi products in schools and other institutions. Targeting the youth KVIC has taken up designing and marketing of products like Khadi denim and Khadi T-shirts. KVIC is working with reputed fashion designers to make

Come April 1, 2018, the Centre will make it mandatory for all public service vehicles — including buses and taxis — to have a location-tracking device and one or more emergency buttons to alert authorities in an emergency. Panic buttons to be installed in front of passengers’ seats. Once pressed

A number of government and private hospitals have been working on remote healthcare delivery for years. Lately startups are entering the space to provide the technology know-how and improve delivery of healthcare. And in the process, many have realized that women in rural areas are the ones with

One of the top ten scorers in JEE (Advanced) in 2013, Aditi Laddha has landed the most sought after job with Uber international. She is the only girl from the institute to land a US job, probably among the other IITs too. Aditi is from Ratlam in MP and became a household name back in 2013, when she

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, non-profit organisation 'Cross the Hurdles' has launched online courses to eliminate, or at least reduce, the disparity in access to quality education for children with severe and multiple disabilities. Under this programme, a student would be able to receive

Around 250 stations have been provided with the facility of water vending machines (WVMs) by Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) for providing pure drinking water to passengers at nominal rates. IRCTC has awarded licenses for installation of 2500 WVMs over Indian Railways

Indian Railways extend travel concessions in passenger fare to 53 categories of passengers and the element of concession ranges from 25% to 100%. The details are as under:- S. No CATEGORY OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE OF CONCESSION* I Disabled Passengers 1 Orthopaedically Handicapped/ Paraplegic persons who

After the demonetisation announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8th Nov there is so much of talking on encouraging cash less transactions. The government on its part is promoting this very actively through the media. Many ministries have joined hands in taking this message to the commoner