Mumbai: If you thought adulterating milk meant diluting it with water, heres a disgusting reality check. Cops caught four milk vendors red-handed selling milk packets mixed with sewage water to customers in Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai on Monday. The milk vendors were engaged in this act since the past six months and were using empty milk packets that they collected from garbage bins. Acting on a tip-off, Vile Parle...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2012
Barabanki: A girls college in the name of Bollywood star and Amitabh Bachchan's daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would be set up in UP by the mega-star's Sewa Sansthan instead of actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada's Nishtha Foundation. The Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Girls College would be constructed at Daulatpur village in Fatehpur tehsil, Rishikesh Yadav, representative of Amitabh Bachchan, said. The responsibility for construction of the college has been taken over from Jaya...
04:15 PM, Apr 22, 2012
b>Washington: An innovative device as big as a washing machine kills two birds with one stone - it harnesses bugs to clean up municipal sewage and produces fuel. Commercial versions of the two-in-one device, an aspect of microbial fuel cell (MFC) being developed by Orianna Bretschger's team at the J Craig Venter Institute, could be a boon for the developing world. "Our prototype incorporates innovations so that it can process...
12:35 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Shara, Leh: Tsewang Dorjey is a sub-inspector with the J&K police who set up a nursery school in Shara, a small village in Ladakh where children earlier didn't even start school before the age of 7. Shara is a tiny hamlet 60 km away from Leh, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places of the region. A yellow bus takes the children to their school - Sewa Shera nursery...
08:56 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Shefali Sewak turned Citizen Journalist to fight illegal encroachment on a public parking area by a reputed hotel. ...
09:48 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Shimla: Infant mortality rate has declined from 45 to 40 per thousand in Himachal as per the report of the Sample Registration Survey (RS) conducted by the Health Ministry, state Health Minister Rajiv Bindal said on Saturday. The Infant Mortality rate (IMR) was stagnating at 45 for some years but the government succeeded in breaking this barrier by adopting new policies and launching new initiatives, he said. The report released...
08:36 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Pune: Three anchors of an MTV reality show had their faces blackened by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and were chased out of Pune for using foul language on national television, party officials said here Friday. "We blackened the faces of MTV Roadies anchors Raghu Ram, Rajeev Lakshman and Ranvijay Singh and told them not to set foot in the cultural city of Pune," said Shailendra Dalvi,...
11:40 AM, Apr 23, 2011
Melbourne: Indian national Gursewak Dhillon, who accidentally knocked down three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa last year, was on Wednesday jailed for five years by an Australian court, which also ordered his deportation. Victorian Supreme Court judge Justice Lex Lasry sentenced Dhillon and said he had put his own welfare before the toddler who could have survived. The judge said 25-year-old Dhillon was concerned he would be blamed for injuring the child...
11:36 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Washington: Scientists have developed a new cheap igloo-shaped, pollution-eating device that can clean up sewage just as effectively as multimillion-dollar treatment facilities. Developed by researchers at the University of Utah, the sewage-eating device, called 'Poo-Gloos', use a thriving bacterial biofilm to consume pollutants from sewage lagoons. It consists of a set of four progressively smaller, plastic domes nested within each other like Russian nesting dolls and filled with plastic packing...
03:28 PM, Jan 10, 2011
New Delhi: After Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar, another Sangh leader has been named by the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in the 2007 Ajmer Dargarh blast case. Former RSS Pracharak from Madhya Pradesh Sunil Joshi is a mystery man. He was killed in broad daylight in Dewas in Madhya Pradesh (MP). He is the man whose name has figured in the chargesheet filed by the Rajasthan ATS in...
08:53 AM, Oct 27, 2010
The Mahatma used to say "the heart of a nation lies in its villages". CNN-IBN travels to a village to find out how villages are doing. ...
04:43 PM, Oct 02, 2010
For many, Gandhiji is not about a defined image but a way of life. ...
04:39 PM, Oct 02, 2010
Here's why you should read Gandhiji's autobiography 'My Experiments With Truth'. ...
04:35 PM, Oct 02, 2010
CNN-IBN pays tribute to the Mahatma as the world celebrates his 140th birth anniversary on Saturday. ...
04:29 PM, Oct 02, 2010
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