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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.

From the endearing term, ‘Anna’ to words like Abba, Achcha, Bapu, Bada Din, Bachcha and Surya Namaskar, over 70 new Indian words from Telugu, Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Gujarati alongside 900+ Indian words that already exist in the OED have turned global.

While flight would be the natural reaction of most people, one 7-year-old boy became a local hero after rescuing his friend from a vicious leopard attack in the village of Arathiya in the Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat.

Metro authorities decided to thank the workers with a moving gesture!

The pilot project will set the ball rolling in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar at the panchayat-level in the first phase.

In a time, when non-cooperation and corruption is all that is attributed to government agencies, the incident of two Samaritans from the UP roadways is an eye opener that warns us against generalizations.