everyday heroes

Jumping into quick action, he rushed to the duty pointsman and Station Master, who then as per protocol, alerted the Railway Protection Force in Tambaram.

It is the story of how a Chennai World bank employee and parent to a Grade 2 student, shelled money out of his own pocket to facelift the government-run primary school in Mugalivakkam.

Ashok started the Aikya Foundation in 2006, a community outreach program that trains Mumbai’s disadvantaged young people to become electricians.

The open-fire attack near Batengoo in J&K's Anantnag district claimed seven lives and injured 14 victims.

Her in-laws ridiculed her desire to study and forced her to do domestic household chores.

How many times have we gone to the tailor in our neighbourhood to get uniforms stitched just before school reopened, or something fancy for the birthday or festival coming up? Though it now sounds like a bygone era to most of us, these tailors are still around, still looking to make a living, in a world they probably can't stitch together anymore.