RailTel is a Government of India enterprise exclusively providing broadband and Wi-Fi services for Indian Railways. It owns a Pan-India optic fiber network on exclusive Right of Way (ROW) along railway tracks. It covers important towns and cities of India. It also works on the modernization of train operations and administration network systems.
Sarojini Naidu’s charisma gets carried forward!
Sarojini Naidu had been the Governor of a state. She became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh after independence. Her daughter Padmaja Naidu became the Governor of the state of West Bengal.
A post office that floats
A floating post office was established in Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir, in August 2011. This was established to facilitate the tourists visiting the Dal Lake. It also houses a museum.
This great teacher’s life of 21 years received laudable repute
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio lived little more than 21 years and in this short span he made his mark as a great teacher. Derozio (1809–1831) started the Young Bengal Movement in the first half of the 19th century with a group of courageous young men of Bengal, which included among others Radhanath Sikdar, the man …
What’s in a name? – ‘Benaam’
In the Hindi film Benaam, the name of the character played by Amitabh Bachchan was ‘Amit Srivastava’, which is his real name. ‘Bachchan’ was the title taken by his father, Harivansh Rai, and Srivastava is their original family surname.
Conjoined twins got a new lease of life at AIIMS
Shaily and Shilpa were born as conjoined twins with fused abdomen and chest on 19 November, 2012. Their livers, the largest solid organ in human body, were fused in the middle. They have been separated successfully by a 30-member team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and they have got …