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Ladakh working towards becoming zero carbon emission UT of India

Shabir Hussain/Kargil Ladakh, the youngest of the Union territories of India that borders China is all set to emerge as the hub of solar and non-conventional energy in India. Kacho Ahmad Khan, Project Director, Kargil Renewable Energy Agency (KREDA), said that with Prime Minster Narendra Modi declaring Ladakh will be run entirely on renewable energy, the region has a potential of 7000 Mega Watt Solar Power - 5000 Mega Watt from Leh and...

Baltis in India celebrate their distinct culture, map migration at Dehradun meet

Shabir Hussain/Dehradun If you thought Balti people live only in Baltistan of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir you are wrong. The people with a distinct Himalayan culture, language and traditions also live in the Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India. Recently, the community’s organized its congregation at Dehradun, Uttarakhand called the “Confluence of Balti community in India,'with the collaboration of the Hi...

Blind cricketer’s vision lights up way for people with disabilities

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Fifty-one-year-old Mahantesh G Kivadasannar who lost sight when he was six months old turned his infirmity on its head to blaze a trail and become a guiding light for people with disabilities. Born in a well-off family in Karnataka’s Belgaum, Mahantesh attended school in Bengaluru where he fell in love with cricket. “I used to be glued to a radio to listen to commentary of cricket matches,”...

Pak teen Afsheen recovering after life-changing surgery in Delhi

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Almost two months after a life-changing surgery at Delhi’s Apollo hospital to straighten an impossibly bent neck, Pakistani teenager Afsheen Gul is recovering well at her home in Mithi in Sindh province. But Afsheen, who also suffers from cerebral palsy, still has a long to go before her condition stabilizes for good. The teenager who returned home in the last week of March along with her brother Moham...

Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, top gun with license to kill

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi At 64, Shafat Ali Khan is India’s most sought-after hunter to put down rouge wild animals when they turn dangerous for humans. The scion of an aristocratic family from Hyderabad, Khan lives most of the time in the Mudumalai National Park spread across the Nilgiri hills Tamil Nadu where he also runs a few resorts. Four decades of tracking and eliminating man-eating tigers and leopards, rogue elephants, wild...

Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, top gun with license to kill

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi At 64, Shafat Ali Khan is India’s most sought-after hunter to put down rouge wild animals when they turn dangerous for humans. The scion of an aristocratic family from Hyderabad, Khan lives most of the time in the Mudumalai National Park spread across the Nilgiri hills Tamil Nadu where he also runs a few resorts. Four decades of tracking and eliminating man-eating tigers and leopards, rogue elephants, wild...

Friday namaz in mosques was not stopped on Holi: Delhi Police

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi The Delhi Police has denied that it had banned congregation namaz in some mosques in the national capital last Friday when Shab-e-Barat coincided with Holi. Former Delhi Minority Commission chairman Zafarul Islam Khan had alleged that Muslims were not allowed to enter certain mosques in Delhi during Shab-e-Barat to offer namaz. In a tweet, Khan had alleged that Delhi Police did not allow the Friday cong...

Pak teen with impossibly bent neck gets kiss of life in Delhi

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Thirteen-year-old Afsheen Gul from Mithi in Pakistan’s Sindh province has never been to school or played with friends because of a condition that left her neck bent at 90 degrees for most of her life. The youngest of seven siblings has spent all her life in the family home in Mithi, 300 km east of Karachi. Afsheen who also suffers from cerebral palsy is said to have had a fall when she was less than a year...

Pak teen with impossibly bent neck gets kiss of life in Delhi

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Thirteen-year-old Afsheen Gul from Mithi in Pakistan’s Sindh province has never been to school or played with friends because of a condition that left her neck bent at 90 degrees for most of her life. The youngest of seven siblings has spent all her life in the family home in Mithi, 300 km east of Karachi. Afsheen who also suffers from cerebral palsy is said to have had a fall when she was less than ...

Tibbia College burnished itself during Covid: Dr Mohammad Zubair

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi The 100-year-old Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College and Hospital in New Delhi, better known as Tibbia college is a sprawling facility with an old-world charm that draws about 1,000 patients six days a week seeking treatment for a range of ailments. It was one of the hospitals in Delhi that had been turned into a Covid care centre. Its principal, Dr. Mohammad Zubair who took charge of the institutio...

Syed Gulab, crusader against hunger in Bengaluru

Sabir Hussain/ New Delhi A visit to a hospital in Bengaluru to see a friend’s child in 2016 changed Syed Gulab’s life forever and turned him from an ordinary citizen into a messiah of sorts for the less privileged. That year, he had returned from Dubai where had worked for seven years as an automobile spray painter and was trying to set up his own business when that visit to the hospital spurred him to become a man with a m...

Syed Gulab, crusader against hunger in Bengaluru

Sabir Hussain/ New Delhi A visit to a hospital in Bengaluru to see a friend’s child in 2016 changed Syed Gulab’s life forever and turned him from an ordinary citizen into a messiah of sorts for the less privileged. That year, he had returned from Dubai where had worked for seven years as an automobile spray painter and was trying to set up his own business when that visit to the hospital spurred him to become a man with a m...

Shehzad and Saud - Brothers who nurse injured raptors

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Sometime in the mid-1990s, two teenaged brothers in Old Delhi found an injured kite that had been wounded by manjha or glass powder-coated string and took it to city’s most famous bird hospital in Chandni Chowk. But they were shocked when the hospital refused to treat the bird because it was a carnivore. They were unable to help that bird and left it at the spot where they found it. It was only in 2003 tha...

‘Lost sensation in legs waiting in snow at Romanian border’

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Many Indian students had a harrowing time crossing the borders from Ukraine during the evacuation in the wake of the war in that country. Many of them were studying medicine in Ternopil. Patna’s Rishab Mishra, a third-year medical student said the group with which he left Ternopil on February 25 took 36 hours to cross into Romania. “We travelled six hours to reach the Ukraine-Roma...

Hopes of quicker evacuation from Ukraine rise

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi The government’s efforts to step up evacuation from Ukraine have raised hopes of a large number of Indians, mostly students still stranded in that country. On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi deputed four ministers to neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinate the evacuation of stranded Indians amid ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine. Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia...

Govt plans overland evacuation of Indians in Ukraine

New Delhi India is making alternate arrangements for evacuation of its citizens from Ukraine after the country closed its airspace iin the wake of the Russian military attacks on Thursday. The plan is to make the Indians reach borders of Ukraine's neighbouring countries from where they could be evacated safely. the Indian Air Force is ready for the mission. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the m...

Ansar Ahamed, engineer who built a Rs 10-cr riding gear brand

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Motorcycles had been Ansar Ahamed’s passion since he was a teenager in the 1990s. As a schoolboy, used to hang around a mechanic’s workshop in Chennai to see how a bike is dismantled for service and repair and how it is put back in shape. But the real attraction for apprenticing with the mechanic was the prospect of riding in a motorcycle race. Eventually, he did get to ride on street races. &ldq...

Racing queen Rehana Reya sets sights on Dakar Rally

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Chennai’s Rehana Reya has come a long way from a teenager in love with bikes to becoming the poster girl of motorcycle racing for women in India. In a sport that still draws very few women, Rehana’s story is a heartwarming one of what the human spirit can achieve. Born in 1995, she loved to ride motorcycles as a teenager and took part in small races without telling anyone in her family of five in...

Dr Noori Parveen, a boon for the poor in Andhra’s Kadapa

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi A doctor’s fee for the price of a small packet of chips? Sounds incredible, but in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa that is exactly what is happening, thanks to a young doctor’s burning desire to make healthcare accessible to the poor. Dr Noori Parveen came to Kadapa, almost 400 km away from her hometown Vijaywada to study medicine at the Fathima Institute of Medical Sciences ei...

Olympian Sameer Dad turns guiding light for MP Hockey

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Once called the nursery of Indian hockey, Bhopal had been adrift for a few decades now before it began to script a turnaround late last year under the guidance of former Olympian Mohammad Sameer Dad. It was in June 2021 that 43-year-old Dad took charge of the Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy as the head coach and by October the sub-junior and junior teams of the academy had won the inaugural national championsh...

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