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Alyte Cabs, a unit of Mahindra Logistics, will provide free cab services to pregnant women, non-critical patients and seniors citizens in Hyderabad. Launched by the Rachakonda Police on April 24, the 24-hour operational service can be availed by dialing 9490617234. Moreover, the authorities will keep a check on the driver's health and disinfect the vehicles often. The service will be functional in Kushaiguda, Neredmet, Nacharam, Malkagiri and… read-more

The Bhopal Municipal Corporation’s unique 'Kitab Ghar' initiative is collecting books from residents and redistributing them to underprivileged children. Partnering with Kabadiwala – a doorstep scrap collecting portal, the civic body provides the books and notebooks collected to BMC-run libraries, and also recycles some of them for environmental cause. Started under the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, the initiative garnered huge support from Bhopalis… read-more

Source of inspiration to many disabled, 45-year-old paralysed Kashmiri man Javed Ahmad Tak is educating specially-abled kids for free. Hit by militant’s bullet in 1997, the wheelchair-bound Javed opened a school for specially-abled kids in 2006. With donations from NGOs and locals, Javed teaches 120 differently-abled students and owns two busses to ferry them. Interestingly, some of the students have also participated and won medals in… read-more

Being apart for three decades, a 70-year-old man has reunited with his family with the help of ITBP soldiers. Knowing only Kannada, Kenchappa Govindappa from Karnataka was stuck in Uttarakhand where he worked at a roadside eatery, earning only a meal and sleeping at a bus stop in bone-chilling cold. Using the social media, the ITBP personnel reunited Kenchappa with his family. Later, the ITBP recognized the 36th battalion jawans for the… read-more

In a successful attempt, Hyderabad traffic police played an active role in helping an ambulance to transport a live lungs to 12 kms in just 15 minutes, which usually takes 45 minutes in traffic. Interestingly, the police still managed to provide 'green channel' while being busy with traffic diversions due to the Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu’s visit. Reportedly, in last 50 days, this was the eighth effort made by Hyderabad police.