Agra (India): Only a year ago who would have thought this was possible? But thanks to the untiring efforts of one man, the Agra Municipal Corporation head Vinay Shankar Pandey, the old dilapidated John's Public Library in Paliwal Park that came up with liberal donations from the city's wealthy people before independence, is today a colourful feather in the cap and another reason to stay back for the night to see Agra's rich and glorious past. 

Aligarh (India): No act of charity is bigger than providing a fellow being with an opportunity to attain education and to make a respectable living with dignity, Salma Ansari, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari's wife, has said.

Just as charity begins at home, cleanliness has all the more reason to begin from home. Today, we talk about Global Warming and debate upon the reasons responsible for it at underwater conferences.

Mathura (India): More than 100 Vaishnavites from Amravati in Maharashtra led by Goswami Dwarikesh Lal and Pusushottam, met President Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan to request to save Yamuna.

Aligarh (India): A 4-day workshop on ‘Traditional & Contemporary Art of India’ organized by the Fine Arts Section of Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University in collaboration with the State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow, was inaugurated.

Dwarika Puri (India): From Braj Mandal (the birth and leela bhoomi of Sri Krishna-Radha) to Dwarika Puri on the western coast of India... The romance and magic of Sri Krishna-Radha lore was clearly missing, as was the royal splendour of the Yadava Empire.