By Siddhi Jain As a young girl, Assam’s artisan entrepreneur Nabanita Kalita saw her mother, grandmother and aunts spend hours on the handloom weaving beautiful Mekhela Chador and Ghamosas and other textiles... Read more »

“One more challenging project involves providing vocational training and employment opportunities for academically weak village girls. Our ultimate objective is to undertake activities that help uplift the community in which we operate;... Read more »

In the anthem, now streaming on TDDP’s social media platforms, the rappers narrate their own personal journeys while offering hope, reassurance, confidence and vanquishing the worry that beating COVID-19 is impossible. Now... Read more »

By Puja Gupta Designer Gaurang Shah, who is known for his exquisite handcrafted jamdani masterpieces and signature sarees, was previously against the idea of selling his creations online. Reason? He never wanted... Read more »

BY VISHAL GULATI Tribal women settled in tiny hamlets spread over Himalayan peaks of the picturesque Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, it seems, are no more immune to apathy by the state’s... Read more »

Apart from this, Santosh also runs a school named Kiran Disabled Social Welfare Institute to educate the disabled and poor children. In this, about 40 to 50 children are being educated currently.... Read more »

By Sujit Chakraborty The Tripura High Court has taken suo-motu cognisance of the media report on the sale of a poverty-stricken 14-year-old girl into marriage to a man in Rajasthan and now... Read more »

Rotary India and Rotary Club of Bombay have committed resources and effort across different platforms to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with a major focus on children. By IANSlife... Read more »

By Puja Gupta “Collaboration brings communities together along with their cultural nuances, musical instruments and genres. It blurs the dividing line and creates something out of the ordinary,” says singer and songwriter... Read more »

For, exactly a week ago on May 27, the girl’s distraught father had committed suicide – 24 hours before his daughter’s planned marriage on May 28. By Quaid Najmi Hundreds of people... Read more »

“We are getting very less salary and the landlords in whose home we resided here didn’t waive the rent. So that is the reason why I am going back to my native... Read more »

A regular ‘langar’ for years, it was only from the March 24 lockdown that it became a saviour for thousands of hungry people including stranded migrants, travelers, truckers and villagers. By Quaid... Read more »

Samyuktha tells me that there are few toilets for thousands of people. When I was looking at the sea of humanity and their outstretched hands for food, I was reminded of the... Read more »

A woman traveling back to her native place by Shramik Special train, on Thursday, gave birth to a baby girl, railway officials said. By Anand Singh  Patna, May 28 (IANS) A woman... Read more »

The owner of the dhaba in Majhanpura village near Manjhi has locked the cash counter for the people eating here after the lockdown. Singh told IANS: “I get self-satisfaction by doing this.... Read more »

Mandal a resident of Malda district of West Bengal, was thrown out of his job as a motor mechanic by his employer in a New Delhi garage. When lockdown was imposed he... Read more »

“It’s difficult but its a good thing because there are lakhs of migrants who want to go back home. You see them and you know how desperate they are. The government might... Read more »

Urmila Devi of Bozhi village of Borrio block of Sahibganj district in Jharkhand along with members of her family and other villagers walks for nearly two and a half kilometres to the... Read more »

Even as his films made in Punjabi, Haryanvi and Pahari continue to travel to Canada, France, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, England, America and Greece, the director whose cinema focusses on subjects... Read more »