Bangalore: Portable incubators are providing a new lease of life to hundreds of newborns. Priced at a reasonable Rs 15,000, these incubators have been installed in hundreds of hospitals and ambulances across four states. A woman, Katyayini gave a premature birth to a child, who weighed 1.4 kg. The doctors advised the 23-year-old mother to keep the baby in an incubator till he gained weight. "He sleeps well in this...
09:13 AM, Sep 10, 2012
For the past 12 years, Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 14 lakh children in government schools across the country. ...
04:12 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Bharatpur: Corporate social responsibility is becoming more than a buzz word. A pharma company's CSR initiative is aiming to make Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India's first poverty free district in the next few years. Lupin Foundation, the pharma company, is helping employ thousands of villagers. Shyam Kishore, 30, is a poultry farmer. In five years, his life has changed, and all for the better. Starting with 300 chicks in a small...
01:27 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal has set an example for the country's rich sportsmen as the start badminton player gifted Paralympic silver medallist HN Girisha Rs 2 lakh from her own earnings, Times Of India reported on Friday. In awe of Girisha's medal in the high-jump event, Saina recognised the effort he had put in to compete and win at the big stage. "I am very happy for...
08:48 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 56-year-old postman in Kerala is delivering an inspirational message by setting up a charitable society for cancer patients. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things - the 56-year-old, Babu is the true recipient of this adage. A postman by profession, Babu also saves the lives of many cancer patients. He, along with some of his well-wishers started the Santhvanam Charitable society in 2007. The society arranges meals for poor...
10:02 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Costa outlet in South Delhi's Green Park is quieter than other cafes. There's comparatively less noise as the people behind the counter can neither speak nor hear. Five years ago, the RJ group began employing such hearing-impaired people at KFC and Costa outlets. Today 145 such employees have made a mark for themselves, thanks to growing corporate social responsibility. Unnikrishnan Santhosh, the CEO of Costa, says, "The...
09:29 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Bangalore: For the past 12 years, Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 14 lakh children in government schools across the country. And now, it has reached an important milestone. The foundation just served its billionth meal in August. From a very modest beginning, the foundation now covers most government schools in nine states across the country. Says Chanchalapathi Dasa, the Vice-Chairman of the Foundation, "We have always...
08:21 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Lucknow: Muslim religious leaders have now come forward to extend a helping hand to sadhus and seers who are campaigning for conservation of River Ganga. Maulana Saeedur Rehman, principal of Centre of Islamic studies, said that it is well known that Ganga is associated with the faith of Hindus but it is not any less important for Muslims. Terming the drive to clean the river as a "holy campaign", Rehman...
12:50 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: An Indian American in New York is trying to bridge the gender gap in the tech world. Meet the Girls Who Code, an initiative thought up by Indian American lawyer and politician Reshma Saujani to encourage high school girls interested in tech and software programming. Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code, says, "Girls Who Code started in January 2011, it was a passion project of mine. Less than...
09:10 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Thursday unveiled an exposure draft on National Physical Fitness Programme for school children that would aim at making physical fitness "academically rewarding". The programme seeks to ensure better health among school going children and broad-basing sports culture in the country. The programme will put into place a system that would assess and ascertain a child's...
08:31 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: India is the global capital for heart disease. More than six crore Indians are already victims, and the number is rising every year. The problem with a heart attack is, we don't know when the next one will hit. Getting yourself checked can be expensive and not all clinics are equipped to do it. Now there's a device that lets you get your heart checked. And it fits...
08:30 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Kolkata: Iron man Manohar Aich, who turned 100, says a little discipline in life and treading the path of honesty will help one live long. The 1952 Mr Universe, who is 4 feet 10 inches tall, has followers who're as young as 65 years. Manohar Aich turned 100 this summer. But the way he flexes his muscles is a style statement by itself. All of 4 feet 10 inches, Aich...
09:03 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Chirang: The Assam riots at the end of last month left nearly 80 people dead and lakhs homeless. The real challenge now lies in rehabilitating those who were displaced. And helping them are young doctors, who assist the men, women and children afflicted with diseases in the camps. While children remain afflicted with diarrohea and fever, women suffer from leucorrhoea. There is also an alarming spike in cases of malaria,...
08:33 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Agra: A retired Army doctor says he has perfected a simple and affordable technique to allow the hearing impaired to hear. "I have developed a simple yet innovative approach in a family practice for age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), without the need for any hearing aid or surgical intervention," Lt Col (retd) Rajesh Chauhan said. "After treating dozens of senior citizens, I am reasonably sure that we might be on the...
03:21 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: Brikesh Singh is getting ready to climb another tree, this time inside a tiger reserve, and stay there for a month - not for fun or to avoid the big cats but to draw the young generation's attention to saving the environment. On September 1, the 32-year-old Greenpeace campaigner, born and brought up in the slums of Mumbai, will climb a tree on the site of a proposed power...
06:27 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Itanagar: Maharashtra government will make available chartered aircraft to take students of Northeast back to educational institutions in Pune or Mumbai from Guwahati. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told a goodwill team from Arunachal Pradesh, led by MP Takan Sanjoy, on Tuesday that concessional chartered flights would be offered to students willing to go back. In a statement, Sanjoy quoted Chavan as saying, "If state governments send written requisitions, officials...
06:39 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Orh-manjhi: Franz Gastler is no professional footballer. Born and brought up in Edina, Minnesota, he studied at Boston University and Harvard Law School before he found his true calling, at least 13,000 km away from home, in a small village in North India. A professional trip around five years ago to Jharkhand changed his life forever. He left his well-paying job, gathered all his savings and opened a football academy...
09:25 AM, Aug 22, 2012
Guwahati: The Indians from the Northeast, who had fled cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, are now returning from their hometown. Sources in the Home Ministry have told CNN-IBN that three special trains have been deployed in Guwahati for Bangalore to meet the rush. This comes almost a week after several Northeast Indians fled Bangalore and other cities following panic created by inflammatory SMSes and MMSes threatening attack against them....
05:33 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Kite flying, especially on Independence Day, may be a tradition, but it leaves hundreds of birds dead every year. However, now they have some hope as two brothers from Old Delhi have become their saviours. Nadeem Shehzaad and his NGO 'Wildlife Rescue' have treated over three thousand injured birds in the last eight years. Nadeem blames the use of the maanjha - or the glass-coated string used in...
08:17 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Gangtok: Sikkim, which started eco-friendly farming from a small area of land about a decade ago, is set to become a fully organic state by 2015, a senior state official has said. "The entire state will be converted into a certified organic state by 2015. Our schemes and policies are well tuned to realise that goal," Sikkim Agriculture Secretary Vishal Chauhan said in Gangtok. According to him, structured organic farming...
08:54 PM, Aug 20, 2012
