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.
A man of many firsts, Khemchand Prakash’s unparalleled contribution to the music of the Hindi film industry pioneered a legacy that should never be forgotten. Sahapedia trains the spotlight on the life and work of the musical genius ‘whose contribution to Hindi film music was far greater than just the songs he composed’
The 197th birth anniversary of legendary Bangali poet and father of Bangla sonnet Michael Madhusudan Dutt is being celebrated on a small scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Around 500 children who were once seen begging, ragpicking and fighting on the streets in Rajasthan's Churu district have now transformed into serious students and are attending regular classes, singing patriotic songs and dreaming high to serve the nation as military personnel, police officers and doctors
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami on Sunday termed the celebration of Netaji's birth anniversary in the country as "very touching" as he hoped that the two friendly neighbours would come even closer in the future
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the evacuation of a 150-year-old heritage building in Chittagong, which was once the law chamber of freedom fighter Jatindra Mohan Sengupta and his father advocate Jatra Mohon Sengupta, to be converted into a museum
Grammy-nominated Indian-American rapper Raja Kumari feels proud to represent the India American community at the the AAPI Inaugural Ball: Breaking Barriers, and says she is looking forward to a less divided, more united America
Cricket Australia (CA), in an open letter addressed to the Indian cricket board on Wednesday, thanked its counterpart and the Indian team after the conclusion of a successful series between the two teams
Three days after scripting history with the first winter ascent of Mt K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, one of the 10 Nepali summiteers, has announced that he climbed without using supplemental oxygen
Bangladesh is the ‘Country of Focus’ at the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that began in Goa on January 16
Setting a unique example, a teacher at a school in Madhya Pradesh in central India starts teaching only after worshiping girl students every day. He has been following this for more than 23 years
The Sikh community is all set to observe the Saka Nankana Sahib event from February 19 to 21, for which Pakistan has decided to issue visas to Indian Sikh pilgrims to attend the religious ceremony across the border
Rich tributes were paid to the undisputed queen of the silver screen, Suchitra Sen on her 8th death anniversary across Bangladesh on Sunday
Even as "Sun Dilliye Ni Sun Dilliye", a song written, composed and sung by the two young sisters on the ongoing farmers' protests in India continues to grab thousands of hits on social media from people across the world, the duo maintains that while all the praise has been extremely encouraging, what matters most is that people across barriers have been able to relate to it
Parents in middle-class Muslim families in India generally believe that their children would hardly get a government job, hence, they find it better to engage them in some work rather than letting them pursuing higher studies
They are the Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of Drukpa lineage, known globally for trekking across the Himalayas to clean trash, paddling through mountain rivers to break centuries-old taboos to educate others on women's health, and adopting martial arts as a way to champion gender equality
