Jharkhand education dept plans to boost green cover in govt schools

Edit The Times of India 19 Jun 2016
Ranchi. The school education and literacy department will soon launch 'Vriksha Lagao Abhiyan' - a tree plantation drive across all government and private schools in the state. Chief minister Raghubar Das has directed all schools to organize an oath-taking ceremony for the plantation drive during morning assembly from June 20-30. The month-long programme will begin July 1 ... "Schools can contact nearby nurseries to procure seeds ... RELATED....

Education Department Directs Tree Plantation in Schools

Edit The Times of India 18 Jun 2016
Ranchi. With ground water level decreasing day by day and global warming increasing, the state school education and literacy department has come up with 'Vriksha Lagao Abhiyan' (tree plantation programme) 2016 ... Those schools which do not have boundary wall can construct bio fencing using shrubs and hedges ... RELATED....

Plant trees, breathe easy

Edit The Telegraph India 16 Jun 2016
Over 1,200 tent house owners, under the banner of Dhanbad Zilla Decorators' Association, grew green fingers on Thursday as deputy commissioner K.N Jha launched their tree plantation campaign - Vriksha Lagao, Paryawaran Bachao - at Gandhi Seva Sadan in the coal town ... ....

Now zip through DND flyway with dedicated RFID lanes

Edit The Times of India 15 Jun 2016
On the first day of the drive, young girls and boys from Noida displayed colourful and attractive banners highlighting catchy slogans like 'Smart women make smart choices! Get RFID today!', 'Keep calm and fly through the DND flyway', 'Bina ruke jao, RFID lagao!' to encourage users to switch to RFID technology. Noida Toll Bridge Company said it will be offering free RFID tags for the first 5,000 users ... NAM SBT MKJ ... RELATED....

New year: Chinese in Mumbai welcome year of the monkey

Edit DNA India 08 Feb 2016
RINGING IN NEW YEAR . City's only Chinese temple is all decked up to mark the occasion (RVD). 'Yahan lagao' (put it here), he tells the electrician, asking him to fit the last of the bulbs into decorative lamp shades. Albert Tham (64) has just got done with decking up the city's only Chinese temple ahead of the Chinese New Year that will begin on Monday ... "We are expecting a lot of people ... Chaitanya Marpakwar. ....

6 die in Imphal as car hits group of gamblers

Edit The Times of India 14 Nov 2015
IMPHAL ... The car, moving towards Imphal from Thoubal, hit the gathering at Kiyam Sipai, Babu Bazaar ... People, mostly youngsters, play a dice game called Diwali Khouba or Lagao Khaoba in various places across the valley districts during the festive season ... ....

'I will dance till the time I can'

Edit Deccan Herald 16 Sep 2015
Do you remember the cute, good-looking and lenient man sitting on the judges’ seat of popular reality shows like Dance India Dance and Nach Baliye? Yes, we are talking about Marzi Pestonji ... “I saw Shiamak’s performance at a show and at that point of time, I didn’t know who he was ... So you have to oversee these things ... More or less these shows are authentic and they don’t chuna lagao (manipulate) people ... ....

Folk artistes to spread awareness for vaccination

Edit The Times of India 04 Sep 2015
JAIPUR. After winning hearts across the world with their rustic voice, Barmer's folk artistes will now sing for children's health in the state. The immunization drive has not yielded desired results in some districts. The health department is taking all possible measures to improve the immunization coverage ... "Rajasthan ro sarkaar ko, yo sandesha layo, gaon gaon, dhani dhani, tikakaran lagao," the artistes sang ... ....

Have kit, will cook

Edit The Hindu 07 Aug 2015
Is cooking cumbersome for you? The recipes don’t go well? The ingredients are a task to find? Bottomline. Have you been shying away from cooking because ‘it is not easy’, ‘it’s time consuming’ or due to ‘lack of recipes’? Yet nobody would say no to home cooked food ... “It is just the way they describe hair colour crème on TV — kholo, gholo, lagao (open mix, apply) ... Keywords....

Brazen boast: 'Bas maarna hi maarna thha'

Edit The Times of India 05 Aug 2015
JAMMU. Just how misleading can a face be in assessing a man's motive was evident when Usman Naved spoke chillingly about slaughter being his sole objective. "Bas maarna hi maarna thha (we were here to kill and only kill)," Naved told some local journalists and villagers who recorded his interview, possibly on phone cameras ... Dehaadi lagao (What's the rate at which you work?) ... Hinduon ko maarna thha ... Haan bas do hi bandey thhey (Yes.)....

We do not look at colours while awarding talent: CM

Edit The Times of India 24 Jul 2015
KOLKATA. Bengal is undoubtedly the culture capital of India and Tollywood will one day take the place of Hollywood, said an upbeat Mamata Banerjee at an awards function organized by the state information and culture department to honour film personalities and technicians ... The state observes the day as 'Bengali Film Day' ... 'Baba Tarakeshwar' is my favourite. I used to chant 'bhole baba paar lagao' all the time then..." ... ....

Neena Gupta: I want to tell all women that if you want to live in India and in society, you have to marry

Edit The Times of India 08 May 2015
Neena Gupta, 60, was way ahead of her times when she took the bold decision to go ahead with her pregnancy with one of the world's finest cricketers, Vivian Richards, 27 years back (their daughter Masaba today is 26 years old) ... Excerpts. ... READ ... Everything ... I would go out and play tennis for eight hours and he would say, 'Haldi lagao isko, yeh kaali hai, kya hoga iska?' I didn't like his school of thought and was rude to him as a child ... ....

Spotlight on supermoms

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Apr 2015
Telly review. It’s curtains up for the ‘mother’ of all Indian reality shows. As season two of Dance India Dance ... Khatron Ke Khiladi. Season 6), singing stars (India’s Got Talent) and what not!. So, what makes the second season of DID ... Then there is Swatabdi from Gujarat who dances with Govinda for Husn hai Suhana… while Sneha from Uttar Pradesh gets Govinda to shake a leg to UP Wala Thumka Lagao ... ....
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