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Tour Album: When Modi embraced Africa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign trips often reveal different shades of his personality. His visit to Africa has been no different. From displaying his skills as a drummer in Dar-es-Salaam......

Indians win two of the four 'Green Oscars'

Indians won two of the four prestigious Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, globally known as the 'Green Oscars', each carrying a cash prize of 30,000 pounds and a trophy, in London on Wednesday......

PM, Sachin, Sen on Time's most influential list

Nine Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and economist Amartya Sen have been named in Time magazine's annual list of 100 most influential people. The......

Meet the men behind the Bhima-Koregaon violence

Sambhaji Bhide and Milind Ekbote -- the right-wing Hindu activists from Maharashtra – are no strangers to controversy. IMAGE: Milind Ekbote (left) and Sambhaji Bhide have come under......

Himachal's hills come alive with labourers from Nepal

Nepali labourers are not only the backbone of the state's apple economy but also part of the highly grounded manpower in the orchards, setting an example for other states struggling with the......

The inspiring success story of Barefoot College

At the Barefoot College, women learn how to assemble charge controllers and inverters, establish a rural electronic workshop, install solar panels on roofs, connect them to batteries, and solar......

2 more Indian NGOs win US award

Two Indian non-government organisations are among 22 institutions to be awarded $615,000 each by the California-based Skoll Foundation for using "innovative approach" in addressing social......

'I wish to recreate an India of self-employers'

In December, some 400 youngsters aged 15 to 18 years boarded a train for the Tata Jagriti Yatra (TJY), a 9,000-km, 16-state journey of 18 days from December 24, 2010 to January 11, 2011, starting......

Rural 'beti' as businesswoman? A tough battle

If doing business in India is a problem for even the richest, it is unlikely to be a breeze for the average rural Indian woman, points out Kanika Datta. Image: Indian women in general and rural......

Honouring Solar Mamas

Given the scale of India’s energy needs the numbers of ‘Solar Mamas’, as they have been called in a documentary film, may not seem very promising, rues Rajni Bakshi Bunker Roy,......

When Preity walked barefoot

We asked readers to tell us if they had grown up or studied with movie or television celebrities. And we got a great response! Sharing his memories is Colonel Shrinivas, who was Preity Zinta's......

From Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Parzania

We first saw Parzaan Dastur in a commercial about Dhara oil, where he wanted to leave home because his family did not love him. But we fell in love with him when he played the silent Sikh boy in......

'Hollywood actors commented on my work'

Shiny Ahuja's first film could have been Farhan Akhtar's multi-starrer Dil Chahta Hai. But it did not work out, and the controversial Sins turned out to be his debut.The movie stoked controversy.......

Orphaned at 5, Revathi gears up to live Olympic dream

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Southern Railway/Twitter Orphaned at five, raised by her daily wager grandmother and forced to run barefoot early on as shoes was a luxury she couldn't afford, sprinter......

Race of a lifetime for tribal kids in Singapore

Five tribal youngsters from Maharashtra's Dhule district will run the Singapore Marathon this Sunday.Harish Kotian finds out how they made it. IMAGE: Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, centre,......

Tribal boy from Bengal set to play rugby in UK

A tribal boy from West Bengal has received a scholarship to a college in Gloucestershire renowned for its sporting prowess and has qualified to play rugby for Gloucestershire side Longlevens RFC.......

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