Showing posts with label Social Reporting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Reporting. Show all posts
Monday, June 11, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Battling the odds, shopkeeper's son makes it to IIT
18-year-old Rakesh Ranjan Nayak, son of a smalltime village shopkeeper in a nondescript village near Sarang-gad in Odisha's Kandhamal district, has made it really big. He's the state topper and ranked 154th in the national level IIT-JEE and 18 in the list of OBC category students. Rakesh wants to study electrical engineering in IIT Mumbai.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
वाह! 60 साल से यहां नहीं पहुंची सरकार
छत्तीसगढ़ के आदिवासी इलाके को देश की आजादी के 60 साल बीत जाने के बाद भी आज तक किसी भी व्यक्ति तक सरकार का एक भी मुलाज़िम नहीं पहुंचा है। इस आदिवासी प्रजाति को मुड़िया कहते हैं।
'We don't even have money to buy poison', say debt ridden farmers in Vid...
The drought-like situation for the past three years in Maharashtra's Vidarbha district has resulted in poor harvests. Coupled with ineffective government help and low cotton prices, the unending narrative of distressed farmers killing themselves continues.
Poverty through the prism of stats: 60% rural folk live on less than Rs 35
A new survey by the National Sample Survey Office for the year 2009 -10 has revealed that more than 60 per cent of the population in rural India lives on less than Rs 35 a day, while the same number of people in urban India live on less than Rs 66 a day. Activists claim these numbers have exposed the lopsided development in the country and highlighted the need for urgent action.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Bangalore autodriver returns five lakhs left behind
When an auto-driver found five lakhs left behind in his three-wheeler, he knew exactly what to do. K Panduranga drove straight to the police station and handed over the bag full of money.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Republic of hunger: Malnutrition plagues in Maximum city
An estimate 6,000 children from Mumbai's slums die every year of malnutrition-related illnesses. Among the worst affected are children in age group of 0-3 years, the age after which the impact of malnutrition- physical and mental- is irreversible.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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