Kolkata

Googel provides real time traffic updates in Google maps for twelve more cities

The attempt by Pavlov Mental Hospital at Kolkata to employ mental inmates to take a step towards their citizenship is incredible and creates hope.

The country's largest floating solar power plant will produce 100 KWP each day, and it is coming up in the largest fresh water lake in North East India - the Loktak Lake in Manipur.

Dhananjay Chakroborty, a taxi driver in Kolkata, has decided to use his green hands and transform his taxi into a miniature, mobile garden. A green crusader on the move.

If you thought just providing hearing aids to the hearing impaired could help them hear, you thought wrong. So did Elita Almeida until she met this Kolkata-based NGO, which seems to have cracked the right model to deal with deafness in an effective way.

Education is every child's right. But sadly, many street children do not have access to that. Mukti Gupta started an NGO 'Help Us Help Them' which reaches out to street children through a school on wheels. The children are given vocational training, and not only this, the students are also provided nutritious food to keep them healthy! Learn more about this unique effort.

From the rich culture to the beautiful Howrah Bridge, from the small streets to the people that make it special, from the crowded trams to the hand-pulled rickshaws, from Rosgullas to Durga Puja, Kolkata will mesmerize you. This video will make you experience the endless beauty of Kolkata in under 2 minutes.