Jovita Aranha

Sovni isn’t the only girl in the village whose family had a resistant mindset towards education for girls. For the longest time, villagers felt that educating a girl would have no long-term benefit for her family.

During the freedom struggle, he was jailed plenty of times. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose referred to Gopabandhu as the ‘father of national movement in Odisha’.

Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) challenge calls for residents to carry their own steel glasses, plates or containers instead of using plastic or paper cutlery. And post pictures it on social media with #BYOC.

Fearing that the electric panel next to her flat would catch fire, she quickly alerted her own family. Her husband Girish rushed out with her four-year-old daughter, so did her mother and a friend who was living with them.

'Caring Friends' was able to achieve this without secretaries, presidents, admin staff or even a bank account. It isn’t even a registered organisation.

And though the mission had to be temporarily aborted in Greenland due to terrible weather conditions, the two young pilots managed to fly the aircraft for 12,900 km in 27 hops, covering over 17 countries.

A final-year student of BTech (Mechanical) at the Chandigarh Group of Colleges in Mohali, his design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) is gaining limelight among top brass, including the Department of Defence Production.

When newspapers in the sleepy town of Bhadreshwar hit the doorstep of her family home, she had made it to the front page. ‘Daughter of Grocer tops state, clears UPSC with AIR 19’ the headlines splashed.

For the last 30 years, the Kurla-based drawing teacher has made a whopping 4,000 sketches for the police, of which 450 sketches have helped successfully detect suspects.

The Sector-28 resident is a computer engineer, who spoke about his initiative ‘Aap Ki Rasoi’ on the show, impressing host and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan.