Jovita Aranha

In a mere span of two years, the country has managed to increase its forest and tree cover by a whopping 8,021 sq km; the India State Forest Report 2017 released on Monday by the Environment Ministry revealed.

Nath competed with over 20 innovators at the two-day 'Innovation Festival' in Guwahati, held by Indian Council for Science Museum in association with the National Innovation Foundation.

Air India, impressed by its captain’s feat, lauded Anupama Kohli. The woman pilot - with an experience spanning 20 years, showed grit and determination, to avert the major mid-air tragedy.

In just five years, the Robin Raina Foundation has adopted over 3,500 underprivileged children, is running multiple schools across the country, an orphan home in Mumbai, medical ambulances in Delhi, a cancer hospital ward in Pakistan and is building over 6000 concrete homes free of cost for the slum dwellers of Bawana in Delhi!

This girl, once left with no trace of her of family, now has hundreds of couple lining up outside the Child welfare committee office in Moradabad for adoption - thanks to local and national media who picked her story.

Besides, the much-talked-about Padman, here are a few other films that deserve honorary mentions for waking the Indian audience and using films as a source to open a new dialogue about an array of social issues.

Arwa was born and brought up in a Kashmiri family in which four members were speech and hearing-impaired. So, growing up she had always been sensitive to their needs because she witnessed first-hand their struggles to communicate with people around them.

Mohanraj remembers sitting next to his mother’s lifeless body with his 14 -year-old brother Velmurugan begging people to help them cremate their mother. They didn’t have the resources to give their mother a dignified end.

Under the policy, the state’s industries department will offer a host of benefits to all stakeholders involved in the manufacturing, creation of infrastructure and sale (consumers) of e-vehicles.

Deemed the 'mother of all metro stations', and under construction by Afcons Infrastructure, the three-decked metro station is expected to open in April 2018