New Delhi:School and college students, watching the raucous two-day debate in parliament on a trust motion sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were stunned to see MPs springing to their feet and

New Delhi: The corridors of the school resonates with the chants of Sanskrit shlokas each day. Never mind the somewhat muddled and imperfect pronunciations, the spirit of the students, many of whom ar

Ranchi: A group of five people, including two illiterates, are running a school in a Muslim-dominated area here and transforming the lives of slum children by giving them hope of a better future. Aro

Ghaziabad: Baldev Gulati is visually impaired but that has not come in the way of his running a flourishing spice factory here - and training differently-abled people to help them get jobs. He starte

New Delhi: Popular Radio Jockey (RJ) Sayema Rahman, who had hosted the show "Purani Jeans" on Radio Mirchi since 2003, is back on air. And she says that making friends with listeners goes a long way i

New Delhi: Once a Class 7 dropout, a 20-year-old college student is now sensitising a group of Delhi youth to create awareness among them about social issues and their rights. Ashkeen Ahmad, a reside

Mumbai: The telephones never stop jangling and the waves go on crashing on the promenade outside. Unperturbed, 20 visually challenged men and women occasionally sniff the salty sea breeze even as thei

Chandigarh: Call it a post "Munna Bhai" phenomenon, but students in and around this city are suddenly showing a keen interest in courses like Gandhian studies, environment studies, peace studies and c

New Delhi: One has a doctorate, another is an instructor with a US-based adventure club -- eleven women from diverse backgrounds with a common passion - scaling heights - have come together for a moun

Sydney: It is not just companies sending work offshore, computer science students in Australia are outsourcing assignments to programmers in India and other countries. Students are willing to shell ou

New Delhi: What happens when a Yale man meets a roomful of cheering Indians on the eve of American Independence Day? They make music, sip Coke, dig into pizzas with a slice of American scholastic her

New Delhi: Abducted and sold at a young age to work at a construction site, 13-year-old Rakesh never thought he would one day represent India at an international event. A proud Rakesh (who uses only

Muthathi (Karnataka): He is just 17, but tackling climate change and transforming poachers into forest guards to conserve the environment makes more sense to Agastya Muthanna than cramming for his Cla

New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P. Venugopal retired on Wednesday after being associated with the top medical college and hospital for 49 years, and said it was "di

Behror (Rajasthan): It seems luck is still not ready to smile on 74-year-old Shiv Charan, who has been appearing in the Class 10 board examinations for the last 38 years. He has failed once again, mar

New Delhi: Delhi-bred Kunal Nayyar went to the US to study marketing, but as luck would have it he became an actor and now features in the popular American TV show "The Big Bang Theory" as Rajesh Koot

Patna: It may come as a shock to many that after topping the elite Indian Institute of Management (IIM), he opted to sell vegetables on the rough streets of this city. But then Kaushalendra is a man o