A profit of Rs 3.5 lakh, that too amid the pandemic. A group of women from a Calcutta slum has done it. Mentored by an NGO, 20 women — most of whose income or family’s earnings dried up ...

One hundred farmers in Hooghly district on Friday got a pair of gumboots and gloves, each, as a shield against snakebites, from an organisation that works to reduce human-wildlife conflict. The monso...

“We have requested the CMOH that one machine be sent to the Jiaganj Covid Hospital,” Das added, referring to the hospital located in Arijit’s birthplace near Behrampore. Arijit&rsqu...

A gurudwara in the city on Friday started providing oxygen concentrators to people across communities and social strata. Gurdwara Bara Sikh Sangat, on MG Road, through the service wants to reach out ...

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In a rerun of last year, people’s livelihood struggle in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to NGOs struggling to raise funds to meet the needs of the communities they work with. ...

Children from financially deprived homes are being pushed into suffering a loss of learning once again with centres shutting down because of a rise in Covid cases, those who work with the children sai...

“Most of the students are children of economically weaker sections. We provide free of cost tutorial lessons under our free education programme since the last five or six years,” Singh add...

Concerned over the imminent encroachment of an open space at Dindli Housing Board Colony in Adityapur, local residents with support of local NGO Jan Kalyan Morcha have demanded  a common sports u...

Association for Parivartan of Nation, an NGO working in the field of education, has started holding free camps to raise awareness about provisions of the right to education (RTE) law among poor parent...