Jamshedpur: In Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, Kantha Singh is a father to 65 orphaned children. His extraordinary work fetched him the CNN-IBN Real Hero award in 2010. But two years down the line, Kantha Singh is facing the biggest challenge of his life. He doesn't have enough money to take care of his ailing wife. His wife is suffering from cancer and Kantha is helpless. He has been languishing in...
10:50 AM, May 15, 2012
Twenty-four unsung heroes were honoured by CNN-IBN and Reliance Foundation in the 5th edition of the Real Heroes awards. ...
11:45 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Murshidabad: Babar Ali was CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2009 as he was perhaps the youngest school principal in the world. It's a unique school where a 27-year-old Mumtaz Begum sits attentively and listens to the teacher and her 7-year-old daughter studies in the nearby classroom. Mumtaz is in her 9th standard and wants to give board exams next year. Babar was a young and lanky 16-year-old when CNN-IBN met him...
09:53 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Sundernagar: Karsanbhai Patel has been training state and national level swimmers in a small village lake in Gujarat. He said the CNN-IBN Real Heroes award helped give them a boost. The swimmers prepare for the championships in a canal at the tiny hamlet of Sundernagar. The canal that has produced many state and national level swimming champs. It is the government school teacher Karsanbhai Patel, CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2009,...
02:00 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Madurai: Narayanan Krishnan, a former five star chef who left his job, to feed the homeless was CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2008 and went on to become a CNN Hero in 2010. It's been 10 years since the former five star chef decided to leave his promising career and dedicate his life to feeding the homeless. In 2008, Narayanan Krishnan was recognised as a Real Hero by CNN-IBN for his...
09:32 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Ladakh: It is just the beginning of harsh winters in Ladakh. Come December and mercury dips to a chilling -15 degrees here. But for 78-year-old Chewang Norphel, temperature is just a number as he literally skips to the top of a very rocky mountain near the Numb village. The former civil engineer, fondly called the "ice man", became CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2008 for building more than seven artificial glaciers...
08:50 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Twenty-four unsung heroes were honoured on Saturday night by CNN-IBN and Reliance Foundation in the 5th edition of the Real Heroes awards. ...
10:49 AM, Mar 25, 2012
At CNN-IBN's Real Heroes awards ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday, Sachin Tendulkar dedicated his historic ton to his elder brother, Ajit. ...
10:02 PM, Mar 24, 2012
In a state infamous for female foeticide, Prakash Kaur is mother to 60 abandoned girls in Jalandhar. ...
04:40 PM, Mar 24, 2012
A day before CNN-IBN's Real Heroes awards night, the 24 awardees from various parts of the country were taken for a Mumbai Darshan. ...
10:54 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Anantapur: Two persons Bablu and Mary is the reason for transformation in Anantapur. Over the past 20 years the two have turned the barren land of 140 villages into an agro-forest habitat also helping villagers set up small scale industries. Many believed that the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh was destined to the wrath of scorching sun and barren arid land. But the will of two people, Bablu Ganguly and...
12:25 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Dehradun: Two friends Jo chopra and Manju Singhania have set up a school for children with Cerebral Palsy, Autism and Down Syndrome. Their school is responsible for transforming the lives of more than 1500 special children. It all started with a child who was neither meant to be born nor was she meant to survive. But Moy Moy was born and even survived. In many ways this happy girl is...
12:14 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Mukesh Ambani launched India's first registered national Braille newspaper in Hindi in association with CNN-IBN's Real Hero Swagat Thorat on Monday. It was Real Hero Thorat's dream to print India's first Braille newspaper in Hindi, and Reliance Foundation made his dream a reality. Nita Ambani launched 'Reliance Drishti' with Thorat as the chief editor, lighting up the lives of the blind and giving them their...
03:49 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mumbai: John Abraham, who will be seen as gangster Manya Surve in 'Shootout at Wadala', defends the glamour quotient attached to underworld-based movies, saying they are not trying to make heroes out of gangsters. "Gangsters will always be gangsters. The way they used to work, the language they used and their behaviour - we are not changing anything. We are not making heroes out of gangsters. We are showing what...
12:09 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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