A former corporate employee, Goutham Kumar realised that his true calling lay in serving humanity. Meet the man changing lives in Hyderabad. While most of us struggle to stick to our 9-5 work hours, Goutham Kumar’s workday often commences at midnight. The Hyderabad resident and his band of dedicated workers and volunteers are most likely to be found at one of the city’s many function halls collecting leftover food items […]

This throwback video of Indian Army unfurling India flag at the world’s most difficult battlefield will give you goosebumps. On Indian Army Day, salute these nation heroes. This throwback video of Indian Army unfurling India flag at the world’s most difficult battlefield is sure to bring tears to your eyes. Climate change is making the life of the soldiers posted in the world’s highest and arduous battlefield – Siachen Glacier […]

One hundred and fifty six Alexandrine parakeets were seized from a trader’s house in Chennai on Friday morning. The trader was then arrested from his house. Mujeed Hassan, who hails from Ayanavaram, had brought the parakeets from Andhra Pradesh and had meant to sold them in Chennai markets. Speaking to The News Minute, Pradeep, Inspector, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, said, “It was a joint operation by the Wildlife Crime Control […]

Dear Parents, A very cruel incident happened yesterday at Thakur International School Kandivali west. pls read entire incident by student’s parent. I am sharing this incident which has shaken my belief on schools and it’s management system. I am asking myself whether our children are safe in these so called temples of education. When we all send our kid to schools, we feel that our little flowers are in tutelage […]

Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has threatened to never issue Indian visas to Amazon officials again–unless they remove all products that “insult” the Indian national flag. “Amazon must tender unconditional apology. They must withdraw all products insulting our national flag immediately,” she tweeted on Wednesday night. “If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official. We will also rescind the Visas issued […]

Nina Merchant (37) can’t stand the thought of losing another mother. She was a newborn when Kulsum Hussain joined the family as a nanny in the US and became her ‘Maaji’. Hussain nursed her through sickness and health, doubled as a confidante in the heady teenage years, and offered her just the comfort she needed at the death of her mother. Merchant is now trying to pay back. For the […]

Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year and will kill one-third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organisation and the US National Cancer Institute published on Tuesday. That cost far outweighs global revenues from tobacco taxes, which the WHO estimated at about $269 billion in 2013-2014. “The number of tobacco-related deaths is projected to increase from […]

The father of 12-year-old Parth, who has a rare and deadly brain disorder, had almost given up hope to treat his son. He had spent all his savings, sold off his property and his wife’s jewellery, DD News reported. With no option left, Parth’s father thought, “Why not write to the PM?” And to his complete surprise, he got a reply. A positive one. Parth is from Gujarat’s Amreli district […]

“Sabhi padheb to ladeb kaun”(if everyone starts reading then who will fight), a stranger asked Ashok Kumar Yadav mockingly while he was selling books at a Maoist infested village in Chattisgarh. But that could not diminish his spirit of reaching out to the people in far-flung rural areas with books. Yadav is a part of the mobile book exhibition team of National Book Trust (NBT). He has been travelling from […]

It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300 medieval forts in Maharashtra. But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. […]