West Bengal

Over 40 transgenders from Kolkata, Malda and North Dinajpur came together and collected relief materials and distributed them among victims in the worst affected areas in the state.

Few people know that solar power not only saves energy costs, it can effectively cancel them out completely. Here’s how a professor from IIM Calcutta did it at his home.

The unique thing about their business was, and has always been, their ability to procure rare books and magazines.

In light of the declining sparrow population, these DIY birdhouses and feeders created by children from slum areas in Jadavpur area, Kolkata, at Anando Foundation can be a boon to birds. The project made it to the Top 25 stories at the ‘I CAN Awards 2014’ organised by Design for Change.

When 220 coal miners working the night shift realized that one of their coal wall blasts had cracked the underground water table, all they could do was run.

Partnering with more than 20 housing societies, 10 schools, and corporate organisations since its inception in 2016, Vital Waste has helped recycle 50 tonnes of waste.

Two parallel tunnels will connect the cities of Howrah and Kolkata, located on either side of the river Hooghly, by the end of July.

Ajita Toppo from the tribal community of North Bengal has been working tirelessly for the past 30 years to bring education to her remote village.

Abhishek Singhania could have enjoyed his corporate job, which earned him more than a lakh’s salary every month. Or he could have chosen to stay back at his stately house in Kolkata, joining his parents’s well-established business. But he chose a rather tough path to make a smoother road to success for our farmers.

Gazi Jalalluddin stoped going to school at 7 due to poverty. He begged on the streets of Kolkata and then became a taxi driver but now he is running two schools for the underprivileged and an orphanage.