Kochi: Thirty-five-year-old Ruby S is the mother to two of Kerala’s most promising footballers – Midhun and Mijun Mathias, 15 and 13 years respectively. But her immediate concern is not how her children will fare in their next game of football, but about how to feed them when they returnContinue Reading
Ranikumari Khokar is campaigning to end a caste-based practice that condemns women to cleaning human waste by handContinue Reading
Patna boy pens fictional novel on hostility differently abled people faceContinue Reading
“Shall we sit in the sun?” asks Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, pulling a garden chair behind him. An old nameplate bearing his late dentist father’s name is still fixed on the front wall of the nearly 100-year-old house, surrounded by mango and Dehradun’s famous litchi trees. “I spend time sitting hereContinue Reading
Pope has sent forth 1,000 Missionaries of MercyContinue Reading
Selsella: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma today inaugurated a common facility centre-cum-handloom production unit in this town in West Garo Hills in a bid to provide local weavers an opportunity to start their own ventures. The unit was set up as part of a special initiative of the state governmentContinue Reading
Dadara: It’s an army without arms. “Armed” with the commitment to conserve greater adjutant storks, 14 women self-help groups of Dadara village in Kamrup district have formed a ” hargila army”, under the leadership of NGO Aaranyak’s greater adjutant stork project team. The aim of the “army” is to removeContinue Reading
On April 4, 1579, a young Englishman named Thomas Stephens boarded the Laurenco, a ship sailing to India, at Lisbon, Portugal, clinging to his most precious possession: his faith. A Roman Catholic, he was compelled to leave Wiltshire, his hometown in England, as it was a time when Catholics were beingContinue Reading
Student captaining Bengal Under-14 team wants to become policewomanContinue Reading
The foray of a resident of a village in Arunachal Pradesh into tea plantation inspired scores of people in the area to follow her example with many of them giving up growing opium. Affectionately called ‘tea lady’, Basamlu Krisikro, a resident of the remote Wakro village in Lohit district, startedContinue Reading
