Pak baby gets rare stem cell transplant in India
Doctors at New Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital performed India’s first unrelated stem cell transplant on a one-year-old Pakistani boy on March 15. Shaheer Imran had familial HLH, a rare disorder where the body’s immune system [...]
Hat trick for Bihar’s Super 30
All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced on Wednesday.
“We [...]
Sulabh Sanitation Movement
Read about the movement which aims to remove maybe India’s biggest Shame “Manual Scavenging“.
Sulabh Sanitation Movement
The noble idea of starting a vocational centre at Alwar is to take out women scavengers out of their [...]
Nai Disha meaning “A new paradigm”
Nai Disha: Started by “Sulabh International Social Service Organisation”
Rehabilitation and alternate livelihood of scavenger women: Success story of Sulabh‘s initiative
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder of the Sulabh Sanitation [...]
Lifeline Express of India: The world’s First Hospital On Rails
Lifeline Express: Can Trains-turned-hospitals Cure Rural India’s Health Care Woes? Grateful patients bearing small bags of fruit and vegetables are common along the railway platforms where Lifeline Express — the world’s first [...]
‘Smile on Wheels’ launched to make poor smile
A NEW initiative to provide healthcare to people at their doorsteps, especially in the slums, is reaching the underprivileged. A mobile hospital called “Smile on Wheels” has been launched for slums in east Delhi and Noida under the [...]
India test-fires Prithvi-II, Dhanush successfully
India has successfully testfired in March 2010; indigenously developed ballistic missiles ‘Prithvi-II’ and ‘Dhanush’ from different locations off the Orissa coast, adding more firepower to the armed forces.
“The [...]
World’s Second Seed Bank in India
India last month commissioned its own ‘doomsday vault’ for long-term storage of crops germplasm at a permanently frozen mountain in western Himalayas. It is the second such seed bank in the world after the one at Norwegian [...]
State and society must root out ‘honour killings’
Earlier article “Honour Killings in India“, a landmark case was delivered in a case of honor killing. There is every reason to hail the verdict of a Haryana court sentencing to death five people who killed a young couple, Manoj [...]
