A mobile library has been set up for first-generation learners of a village on the occasion of the bicentenary of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar’s birth. An NGO that works in the districts for empowe...

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The Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre (KMWSC), a wing of the Loreto Congregation in South Asia, had received requests from women to reopen the vocational units in the initial days of the lockdown. &ldq...

The NGO has formed a panel for the livelihood loans programme to “identify genuine people in need of help”. Those who have been given loans are not being left to themselves. Volunteers fr...

An NGO has launched an initiative to provide a source of livelihood to disabled poor tribal people residing in rural areas of Dhanbad in Jharkhand. Nand Care Foundation, a 9-month-old NGO founded by ...

Within days of the ministry of health and family welfare issuing guidelines for gated residential complexes desirous of setting up “small Covid care facilities”, several housing societies ...

The Manchester United Foundation will provide financial aid to a city NGO to help tackle the social and economic impact of the pandemic on youths. The Foundation has teamed up with its supporters&rsq...

A woman from a village in North 24-Parganas was among the 15,000-odd people who took part in Calcutta’s biggest road race on Sunday morning.Two years ago, the 24-year-old was at a brothel in Pune wh...

Assam police on Friday said that combating human trafficking was one of its top priorities.Director-general of police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said, “Combating human trafficking is one of our priority ...

A football team had just lost a match. But many around the field clapped for them on Saturday afternoon.The applause was for a bunch of girls from Birbhum who had to apparently brave abuse and assault...