Good Samaritan: The word "nirman" means to "create" and that is what the initiative "Nirman" is aimed at - to create a new generation of leadership to take up social challenges like poverty, food shortage, energy crisis, child deaths, global warming, unemployment, and others. Read more .....
Expert speak: Former Chief of the Army Staff Gen V K Singh, a day before he hung up his uniform, impressed upon cadets at the National Defence Academy on the need for military leaders to have right kind of moral and ethical values.Read excerpts from the address delivered by Gen Singh at the passing out parade of the 122nd course of the NDA on May 30, 2012 .....
Innovation: Four final-year mechanical engineering students of the Pune Zilla Shikshan Mandal's College of Engineering at Manjri in Pune have designed an agro-scooter which is a multi-purpose vehicle that can perform 12 different farming operations. Read more ....
Fiction: A crude translation of one of poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore's short stories. The story "Feast of the rats" is about a group of school students who have not yet seen their new Sanskrit teacher, but yet taken a dislike for him. They undergo a change of heart subesquently. Read the full story .....
Colours: For the youth, life is a splash of colours. Whether on or off the campus, living is sheer fun, joy and laughter. Share some light moments here .....
Brain Teaser: Never ask a mathematician his age, or for that matter, the age of any of his family members. This is what my friend Ajit faced when he wanted to know the ages of our Mathematics teacher's three children. Instead of giving Ajit a straight reply, the teacher told him to determine the ages by looking at the house number and his oldest child's love for adventure sports. Can you help Ajit in detrmining the ages?Please help .....
History: Here is the text of Swami Vivekananda's famous Chicago speech through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions on 11th September, 1893. Read more .....
Science: Indian scientist Prof Ashutosh Kotwal from Pune has announced the World's most precise measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson. Read more .....
