How a 21-Year-Old Travelled to over 80 Cities on a Shoestring Budget
"I’m 21 and my aim is to remain this young, and never give up my longing to meet new people, my wanderlust and most importantly my will to give something back to the society. I’m a traveller at heart...
View ArticleIndia’s Real Estate Bill Will Have a Clause to End Bias against Religion,...
For the first time ever, India is all set to bring into force an anti-discriminatory provision in its housing sector. The centre is planning to introduce a new clause in the real estate act to check...
View ArticleThis Awesome Machine Can Crush 300 PET Bottles an Hour and Ensure They Get...
Do you ever worry that the mineral water bottle you just discarded will be picked up and used to package unclean water again? Now there is a machine to crush the bottle at source and convert it into...
View ArticleHow Bluetooth Is Helping People in Many Remote Villages Listen to News on the...
Shubhranshu Choudhary, the founder of CGNet Swara, was in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh to take a class on citizen journalism with some tribal school students. One winter morning, he saw a group...
View ArticleThis IRS Officer Has Used up His Holidays in the Last 7 Years to Help Save...
Hari Narayan Meena, a 2004-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, has been spreading awareness about the need to save the girl child for seven years now. Currently posted as the Joint Commissioner,...
View ArticleMy Story: I Worked as a Ragpicker until 1981. Today I Have a Cooperative with...
Manjula Vaghela, a 60-year-old resident of Ahmedabad, was a ragpicker until 1981. Today, she is the proud leader of Shri Saundarya Safai Utkarsh Mahila Sewa Sahkari Mandali Ltd (SSSUMSSML) – a...
View ArticleGarage Sales, Lemonade Stands & More: This 12-Year-Old Is Helping the Society...
“She is a born giver,” says Mumbai-resident Manisha Pradhan Singh about her 12-year-old daughter Maanavi who has been helping the needy for four years now. Be it raising funds for charitable...
View ArticleA Class 9 Kerala Student Swam 3 Km to School to Send an Important Message to...
Arjun Santhosh is a 14-year-old resident of Perumbalam, an island in the Vembanad lake of Kerala. Every day, the Class 9 student used to take one of the Kerala Water Transport Department’s boats to...
View ArticleHow a Tiny Bracelet Can Save Millions of Newborn Babies Every Year in India
Many newborn deaths from hypothermia in India can be easily prevented with regular temperature monitoring techniques and early intervention. A Bengaluru-based company has devised the perfect solution....
View ArticleThis Gurgaon Woman Offers Chilled Drinking Water to Passers-By for Free
Shailee Shah, a resident of Gurgaon, has quenched the thirst of thousands of people by distributing chilled drinking water among passers-by for free. The 41-year-old keeps at least 30 water bottles in...
View ArticleThis Chennai Mom’s Personalised Book Labels for Kids Contain Important...
Remember a time when just before the beginning of every new school year we used to sit with piles of new books and notebooks and rolls of brown paper to cover them? The excitement of all things new and...
View ArticleThis Bengaluru Organization Shows Us How It Became a Carbon Neutral Campus in...
Public Affairs Centre (PAC), a not for profit organization in Bengaluru, started working towards the mission of developing a carbon-neutral campus in 2014. Today, with initiatives ranging from solar...
View ArticleDraped in a Shroud That Covered His Son’s Body, a Father Is Protesting...
Mukhtiar Singh, a resident of Patti in Tarn Taran district of Punjab, is protesting against drug addiction in the state in a unique way. The 47-year-old, who lost his son to drug overdose on March 26,...
View ArticleThis Incredible Man Uses Social Media to Celebrate Birthdays of Street...
Many street children in India do not even know the date on which they were born. But one man in Delhi had an idea as to how their birthdays could be celebrated. And he’s inspired over 2,000 more people...
View ArticleMeet the First Three Women Inducted as Pilots in IAF Fighter Squadron
The Indian Air Force inducted its first batch of women pilots into its fighter squadron on Saturday. The passing-out parade organized at the Indian Air Force Academy in Hakimpet, Hyderabad marked a...
View ArticleHow Matunga Residents Transformed the Space under a Flyover into a...
Mumbai's first garden-under-flyover was finally inaugurated on Monday after the dedicated hard work of many Matunga residents. Named Nanalal D. Mehta Garden, it is located under the Tulpule Flyover on...
View ArticleThis Company Brings Waste Collectors & Generators on One Platform to Help...
Unsure about whether the waste you segregate and dispose of is actually recycled or not? Here is one company that will take complete responsibility of the waste generated from your house or office, and...
View ArticleHow One Institute Helped 4 Kashmiri Students Crack the IIT Advanced This Year
In October 2012, three IIT alumni – Mubeen Masudi from IIT Bombay and Imbesat Ahmad and Salman Shahid from IIT Kharagpur, decided to give up their lucrative corporate jobs and go to Kashmir to set up a...
View ArticleThis Pune Family Shows the World How to Exercise and Save Water at the Same...
Sanjay Athavale, a 51-year-old resident of Kothrud in Pune has been recycling wastewater from his bathroom and kitchen to water plants in his garden every day, for the last four years. He uses a cycle...
View ArticleIN PHOTOS: Water Tanks Never Looked This Fancy Before. Check out 10 Awesomely...
Shaped like aeroplanes, ships, kangaroos and more – water tanks on the roofs of several houses in Punjab are not mere concrete structures to store water, but more of creative figures with emotional...
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