In a first of its kind initiative in the country, the Rajasthan government has launched a unique concept ‘Living Arts of Rajasthan’, which has turned Jaipur into an open art gallery. Under the project, tribal and folk arts of Rajasthan have been put on display at public places...
Huge paintings dot Jaipur, R'than capital turns artsy
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Food pantry’s lease on life runs short
The couple behind a critical Kakaako food pantry continue to scramble to find an affordable replacement space, but Charlie and Diana Lorenz are preparing for the possibility they’ll have to close Feeding Hawaii Together for good on Dec. 1. “There’s going to be a great hole in the community,” Diana said Tuesday morning as needy clients lined up for free, fresh fruits and vegetables, protein and canned goods. “Our biggest concern is the people we serve.” Feeding Hawaii Together has been...
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Spanish Town Installs Communal Fridge To Fight Food Waste
Consider it a “free little library” approach to saving food from the trash. In the Basque Country town of Galdakao, Spain, residents have rallied around a public “solidarity fridge” installed earlier this year in an effort to reduce food waste. According to NPR, the fridge was the idea of Alvaro Saiz, who previously operated a food bank for low-income residents of the Spanish town. He had read about an Internet platform in Germany, called Foodsharing.de, that helped people get rid of their unwanted leftovers and wanted to bring...
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Engg student comes up with device for ‘smart dustbins’
A B.tech first year student from a Ghaziabad engineering college has come up with a device for dustbins that will inform authorities about the solid waste collected once it is filled to a certain level. The device will come in handy for the Ghaziabad municipal corporation, which often draws flak from residents for failing to empty dustbins in...
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Delhi’s hi-tech ghost parking lots
Multi-level facilities lie massively under utilised even as space crunch in the city forces people to park vehicles on road sides and bylanes Even as the paucity of parking spaces continues to be a major issue in the national Capital, the multi-level parking lots in the city have failed to attract consumers. The reasons range from the lots being non-user friendly to having structural flaws. The automated multi-level parking lots in the Capital were offered as a solution to the city’s problems of shrunken road space, increasing number of vehicles, and the resultant traffic snarls. They were developed under the respective municipal corporations of Delhi on a public-private partnership...
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Featuring smart facilities, Jaipur to be a 'Lighthouse City'
Pink City Jaipur has become the first in the country and South Asia to join the “Cisco Lighthouse Cities” to monitor and operate smart city infrastructure using a single network. The futuristic leap brings the heritage city in league with other lighthouse cities — Hamburg, Barcelona and Adelaide. For this, the government has developed a network operating centre (NOC) at the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) headquarters. Founded by Maharaja Jai Singh and planned by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya in 1727, Jaipur is the living example of a city based on the principles of ‘vastu shastra.’ Already unusually ‘smart’ among pre-modern Indian cities with the...
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Cops rope in Jaipur schools on road safety for kids
The Jaipur police held a meeting with school managements and other stakeholders on Saturday to ensure safety of school-going children. The meeting – held a few days after a five-year-old girl was crushed under a crane when she was going to school with her father -- aimed to emphasise the role of schools for...
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Lions to set up food bank for poor in Patna
Over 100 tonnes of food is wasted in Patna everyday, over half in homes all over the state. They constitute the leftovers, which a family cannot consume, or that go waste at hotels and restaurants. “It happens all the time, especially, when there is a marriage around,” said TR Gandhi, former governor of Patna Lions Club. But members of Lions Clubs in Patna, many of whom are into food business...
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Roadside parking of BMTC buses adds to traffic problems
Haphazard parking of BMTC buses on most City roads has been eating into prime road space, adding to the already existing traffic woes and causing much inconvenience to pedestrians and motorists. It is a common sight to spot BMTC buses parked on the roadside in areas such as Mysuru Road, Peenya, Yeshwantpur, Kengeri, Jayanagar, Koramangala, Magadi Road, Vijayanagar, JP Nagar and Banashankari. While the traffic police and Transport...
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'Rotary Fridge' ensures excess food goes to hungry
Many restaurants is the city incinerate excess food, even if it is fit for human consumption. Realising that this food could be used by those in need, Rotary Bangalore Brigades has launched ‘The Rotary Fridge’ as part of their ‘Campaign Against Hunger’. The club has tied up with...
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Urban Agrihood: Detroit Produce Project Feeds 2,000 Households for Free
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) has developed a multi-acre urban agricultural campus in Detroit with gardens and an orchard designed to feed thousands of local residents. This so-called “agrihood” reflects a different approach to neighborhood...
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Will the steep hike in towing rates curb roadside parking?
Can the recent hike in towing rates ease traffic congestion in the city? Will there be reduction in the use of private transport, owing to lack of parking space? R Hithendra, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), sees a slight reduction in roadside parking at a few places, while urban mobility experts claim that introducing pay-and-park system would ease...
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Hunger heroes to the rescue
--> Ritika Jain | Tue, 1 Nov 2016-07:35am , DNA NGOs like Feeding India, The Robin Hood Army, SPYM, etc collect leftovers from weddings, hotels, etc to feed the poor daily Two years ago, Ankit Kwatra, 24, had attended a typical Delhi wedding where he saw a spread featuring 35 diferent cuisines across the world. After speaking to the caterer, he found that all the leftovers that were enough to feed at least 10,000 people, would be thrown in the trash. The thought of so much food being wasted, when it could be donated, haunted him and thus Feeding India was born. “Our NGO works on a hyper local...
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For joy of giving! Going extra mile to feed hungry mouths
BENGALURU: How many times have we been guilty of ignoring those begging for food on the roadside? The answer, unfortunately, is innumerable. Some of us couldn’t care less and some of us, even though we do, don’t know what to do about it. Harshil Mittal, a 23-year-old software developer from Bengaluru, got tired of seeing hunger stricken faces everyday on his...
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Minu’s fridge filled with goodness
Most restaurateurs install big fridges inside their kitchens, Minu Pauline’s 420 litre fridge is on the road outside her restaurant. The 28-year-old banker turned restaurateur says she did this for a very specific reason: She wanted to feed many more people than just her customers. Nanma Maram (the tree of goodness) is an idea that banks on innate kindness, on empathy and hope. Judging by the enthusiastic flurry of attention and press, it’s also an idea that has the potential to trigger a powerful wave of enthusiastic volunteerism and sharing. “I have often seen the homeless and the hungry, especially the aged,...
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Wall of dedication in Bhopal: Leave what you don’t need, pick what you do
Inspired by the concept of neki ki deewar (wall of kindness) in different parts of the country, a youth group has installed a samarpan ki deewar (wall of dedication) in Bhopal. The wall provides a platform to residents, government and non-government...
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Smart street lights illuminate Jaipur
Chosen as a ‘smart city’ a year ago, Jaipur has now become the first in the country to install environmentally friendly smart lighting on its streets. Following the examples of smart cities in US and Europe, the pink city has installed the first 320...
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Residents of Gurgaon’s Sector-54 install a 24*7 community fridge to help the needy
The residents of Gurgaon have installed a 24*7 community fridge that’s for all and by all. Stationed at the exit gate of Suncity flats in Sector-54, Gurgaon since last Friday, the...
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Sunshine story: Community fridge in Oshiwara supplies food to the needy
Representational picture Mumbai gets it second community fridge, as an Oshiwara resident sets up a refrigerator for underprivileged people, daily laboureres including BMC workers, and auto rickshaw drivers of that area. Preeti Khurana, owner of an import business has taken the initiative to set up the community fridge. This is the city's...
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Caring for downtrodden: Serving the poor, with love
Madurai: Inspired by the divine teachings of Tamil saint Thiru Arutprakasa Chidambaram Ranalingam, popularly known as Vallalar, Gandhimathi used to attend Avaval (joint prayer for the welfare of humanity) in a house near Kela Masi street in Madurai 20 years ago, which is when she met Siva Anbanantham, a Sangmarga Anbargal. Siva Anbanantham, a staunch Vallalar devotee, spent most of his time serving the community by providing free food for the destitute and elders and so his family left him. Seeing him struggling single-handedly to mobilise funds and also cook the food to provide the free meals, Gandhimathi and a few other people helped him in preparing the food. That was 16 years ago. Today,...
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