Sports & Culture

This will be the first Diwali in 100 years that will be celebrated during a raging pandemic. You and I may be safely ensconced at home with a box of sweets. However, for certain sections of society – senior citizens, families of migrants, those battling mental illness, ones lost their livelihood and others who...

PNB MetLife Insurance along with its NGO partner - Child Rights and You (CRY), hosted an interactive chat session ahead of Children's Day for over 150 children with PV Sindhu, Olympic Medallist and the brand ambassador of PNB MetLife and U. Vimal Kumar, international badminton player, coach and the founder of Prakash Padukone Sports...

Concluding our #LocalForDiwali series, we are being #vocalforlocal food providers in Mumbai. Diwali is not complete without awesome festival food. The tasty treats in form of sweets and savouries are enough to compel the most sincere diet watchers into taking a few cheat days. All across the country, home-made food businesses have increased in numbers...

Continuing our Diwali series, we are here being vocal for local for a few festival related services that everyone need at this time of the year. Diwali preparations involve a ton of cleaning and decorating of the house. The festival is all about letting the old clutter of the year go and welcome the...

Samvaad, organised by Tata Steel Foundation, is back in 2020 with the seventh edition. Scheduled between November 15-19, the conclave centred around tribal communities will take the conversations and celebrations online this year. The Samvaad ecosystem has brought together more than 30,000 people from 117 tribes across 27 states of India and 18 countries in...

In a world starkly altered by COVID-19, the 2020 Oxfam Trailwalker India, a fundraising walkathon has gone virtual and will be completely different from its past 16 successful editions. Just last year, thousands of Oxfam trail walkers had come together from all across India and around the world, to walk for better education, affordable and...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the citizens of India to be vocal for local and to promote ‘local for Diwali’ this festive season. He encouraged the people of India to participate in the festivities this year by purchasing local products. “Celebrating Diwali with local will give a new boost to the economy,” he said....

While weekends are the perfect days to laze about, they also consist of key hours during which we, as inhabitants of Earth, can actively engage with issues that matter. Last Sunday, Mumbai-based hip-hop school The Dharavi Dream Project (TDDP — Asia’s largest afterschool of hip-hop), graffiti collective Wicked Broz and civilian welfare initiative MRRWA...

Vedanta's Sesa Football Academy (SFA) has earned accreditation under Khelo India Talent Development programme. This association with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) through Khelo India scheme will help to further improvise training, infrastructure and expand the reach of the project. Khelo India Scheme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (MYAS), Government of...

Today marks the end of Ganga Utsav 2020, the festival which celebrates the glory of the historically and religiously important river Ganga. On November 4th 2008, Ganga was declared as the national river of India. Ganga Utsav Ganga Utsav is celebrated each year by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). The three-day festival aims to promote stakeholder engagement and...

Crimes against journalists are grossly overlooked in the judicial system. Killers of scribes often go unpunished. According to the UN, no less than 1,200 journalists were killed all over the world in the last one and half decades. Most of the murder cases are pending, with only one in 10 criminals being punished by...

India's rural communities remain underserved when it comes to information and education about sexual health, birth control, issues pertaining to adolescence, teen pregnancies, menstrual needs and more. However, an informative and entertaining show like Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon (MKBKSH) which airs on DD National has played a significant role in normalising taboo...