The evolution of this grassroots initiative in Bangladesh offers a model for other nations seeking to better address the crisis of road traffic injuries. It also provides insights into the vital importance of the collaborative process in creating broad support for the development and sustenance of such national programmes. While technology is often seen as the remedy for all our problems, the success of such community-based programmes is an important reminder to focus first on people, using technology as a tool, not as an end in itself.
JNU has stood against authoritarianism, market-driven education policies, and ideological conformity for decades, serving as a defiant emblem of resistance. The JNUSU election results last week by virtue of scale and impact on student and larger national politics may be deemed as extraneous. However, in spatial understanding of power dynamics, it metaphorically stands as a symbol of resistance at the heart of the nation’s capital.
Even coffee-table books, despite their visual focus, rarely abandon text altogether. They rely on commentary to contextualize the images. Goyal takes the opposite approach. Her photographs, painstakingly gathered from her travels across India, are not documentation but an invitation to look, to remember, to imagine. The result is a deeply personal journey for each reader, or rather, viewer.
Trees are also rain producers since the evaporation of water from their leaves changes the microenvironment and helps in rain precipitation. Increased rain can also reduce air pollution. Trees also help clean the air and environment by reducing dust, reducing noise pollution, absorbing pollutants like carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc. and fighting soil erosion.
In an immaculately conducted award ceremony at the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, Junior Under Officer (JUO) Kinley Norbu, a Foreign Gentlemen Cadet (FGC) from Bhutan, was awarded the prestigious motivational trophy for his excellent all-round performance during his training at the IMA
Pakistan’s famous ghazal singer, Sunny Benjamin John, 87, better known as SB John, passed away on Monday in Karachi after a prolonged illness
Veteran Indian actor Dilip Kumar, who is currently hospitalised, is on oxygen support, his official Twitter handle confirmed
Recognizing her efforts to protect the ecology on World Environment day, Filza was awarded by the South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists (SAVAE), a Kashmir-based organisation that focuses on environmental policy in South Asia
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar has been admitted to Mumbai's Hinduja hospital on Sunday morning after complaining of breathlessness, media reports said
Pakistani actress Saba Qamar, who starred in the super grosser Bollywood comedy-drama Hindi Medium opposite late Irrfan Khan, says she learned a lot from the Indian actor
The uncertainty dogging the remaining matches of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has finally come to an end, with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announcing on Thursday that the games will be played from June 9-24 in Abu Dhabi
Former chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Khalid Mahmood suspects the “Indian lobby” to be behind the hurdles created by Abu Dhabi authorities in holding the remaining 20 matches of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL)
Top Australian cricketers are participating in a 12-hour gaming live stream Thursday to raise money for UNICEF Australia's India COVID Appeal
The government in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has taken possession of the ancestral houses of Indian film legends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor in Peshawar, the provincial capital
Bangladesh stars Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman appear to have played their last matches in the Indian Premier League following the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s refusal to issue a no-objection certificate to the duo for the remainder of the season
Vogue magazine announced has announced that Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani education activist Malala Yousufzai will star on British Vogue's July 2021 cover
Seven South Asian women - two each from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan and one from Sri Lanka - have been selected to be mentored as part of the ICC (International Cricket Council) 100% Cricket Future Leaders Programme beginning this month to support emerging female talent in cricket
For Sajid Haji Ababakar, an ordinary fisherman from Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, the last Sunday was perhaps the luckiest day of his life. A fish, he caught last week, fetched him a whopping $46,500
The Indian cricket board on Saturday decided to organise the remaining matches of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) - the cricket world's premier T20 league - in Dubai later this year
