Music, dance therapy helps disabled children dream big
byNew Delhi: Gulshan Kumar has come a long way from being the polio-stricken wheelchair-bound son of a washerman to performing in the House of…
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IGNOU offers course on Gandhi
byNew Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is offering a masters programme on Gandhi and Peace Studies from the 2013 session, an official…
1,000 water plants for Rajasthan villages
byJaipur: To provide clean drinking water to villages in Rajasthan, the state government will set up over 1,000 RO (reverse osmosis) plants in rural…
Baseball, squash, wrestling shortlisted for 2020 Olympics
bySt. Petersburg: The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here Wednesday recommended that baseball, squash and wrestling be proposed to the…
Himachal notifies four schools for physically challenged
byShimla: Himachal Pradesh has notified four senior secondary schools in the state as inclusive institutions where the physically challenged will be provided education, Shimla-based public…
Working women help children develop: Study
byNew Delhi: Increasing participation of women in the work force, especially in the government’s flagship rural employment guarantee scheme NREGS, has reflected positively on the…
Girls outshine boys again in CBSE Class 12 exam
byNew Delhi: Girls once again outperformed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 exams this year. The overall pass percentage…
A 78-year-old woman anchors Moplah food festival
byChennai, May 26 (IANS) Seventy-eight-year-old Ummi Abdulla, an expert in Moplah cuisine of Kerala, is still far from retiring, busy as she is with…
Women in this Uttarakhand village get a day off since 1956
byDehradun : Women in Uttarakhand have to do the majority of work, which is not limited to the domestic chores of cooking and cleaning…
Senate confirms Chandigarh-born as top US judge
byWashington, May 24 (IANS) Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan made history Thursday as the US Senate confirmed his nomination as a top…