Bengal laborer wins 10-million lottery in Kerala
2016-03-10
He came looking for a job in KeralaContinue Reading
First batch of cadet girls sets off on Everest expedition
2016-03-09
Pan-India trials at 25 selected hubs were carried out and 100 girl cadets nominated to undergo the customized mountaineering courseContinue Reading
Technology students turn garbage collectors
2016-03-08
Many professors have become the customersContinue Reading
Honour for 21 innovators
2016-03-06
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today presented awards to 21 innovators under the Odisha Youth Innovation scheme at the launch of the 12th Entrepreneurs’ Week here. The scheme, which was launched last year, honours youngsters with innovative concepts and entrepreneurial ideas. Abinash Sahoo, 22, an aeronautical engineering student from BhubaneswarContinue Reading
Arrested student leader gets interim bail
2016-03-02
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to student leader Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested in a sedition case three weeks ago. The court asked Kumar, president of the of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union, to furnish a personal bond of 10,000 rupees and aContinue Reading
Army says ready to help Kashmiri youths in career planning
2016-03-02
Charar-e-Shareef: A senior army officer on Wednesday said the force is open to help Kashmiri youths who want to pursue conventional careers in life. “We are pained when some youth shout slogans and then pick up stones and later some of them also pick up guns. We are pained whenContinue Reading
Bengal village teen bags top Nasa scholarship
2016-02-29
Kolkata: Eighteen-year-old Sataparna Mukherjee, a Class 12 student from a village around 30km from Kolkata, has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) for its prestigious Goddard Internship Programme under the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). She is among five scholars chosen from across the worldContinue Reading
50 percent girls sexually harassed on way to school: study
2016-02-25
NGO ‘Breakthrough’ studied 900 young girls and boys in six statesContinue Reading
Young artists create mythical characters from paper waste
2016-02-24
They created masks representing Vishnu and HanumanContinue Reading
Aligarh panchayat bans mobiles for girls
2016-02-20
Any girl under the age of 18, if found with a mobile phone, would be given corporal punishments for eight days, Ramvir Singh, a village elder said.Continue Reading