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The Sangam rehabilitates and empowers people with physical and mental impairments. In its three decades, it has embraced more than 330 villages in four blocks of Tirunelveli district, touching a population of over six lakh.

From paragliding in Taiwan to zip-lining in Ecuador and even fighting the challenges of travelling in not very wheelchair-friendly China, she has done it all.

In 2015, the 15th National Para Athletic Championships was conducted in New Delhi. Even here, unfortunately, there were no proper arrangements made; no wheelchair lifts, no ramps/slope gradients or any other infrastructure to help the Paralympians.

Having met with an unfortunate road accident in 2003, she succumbed to an injury in her spinal cord, which resulted in paralysis of her lower body.

“Organic farming should be adopted as a culture and a way of life."

In December last year, Prof Lalji Singh, known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting in India, died after he suffered a major heart attack while at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur in Varanasi.

After a terrible accident, Nisha picked herself up, and fell in love with sports. Here's how it changed her life!

The force of the device's 10-ton magnet is about 30,000 times as powerful as Earth's magnetic field and 200 times stronger than the common refrigerator magnet.

Meet specially-abled sportsman Jitendra - a resident of a remote hamlet in Lalitpur, who is not missing his bounce despite lack of government support.

What started with just four equipment has now turned into an NGO called Aslot Manav Sahay Kendra, which has more than 450 pieces of equipment.