When we have a question, we simply Google it, or post it on Facebook, Quora and other forums. If we want career advice we have our alumni, our friends and [...]
The President of India today presented National Technological Awards at a function held in Vigyan Bhawan to mark the National Technology Day 2013. National Technology Day is celebrated on 11th May [...]
Lovelesh Garg from Gurukul School,Ghaziabad, has bagged the first prize in the 2012 ‘Enterprising Student’ awards. Uday Choudhary from The Heritage School,Kolkata, has taken one of the two runners up [...]
People near the villages of the Doodhatoli mountains in Uttarakhand were leading a quiet life, rearing cattle and farming on their respective agricultural lands. Also going on simultaneously in the [...]
Twenty social enterprises were recently awarded grants totaling $2 million by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG). The grantees received $100,000 each to extend [...]
Aparajita Datta, a wildlife biologist and senior scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation(NCF), has won the 2013 Whitley Award, also known as the Green Oscar. The award comes as a [...]
Drying is a method of food preservation that has been practiced since ancient times to preserve food. The traditional method of drying involves sun drying products by laying them out [...]
In this series of farmer scientist we have taken you through some amazing and inspirational stories of people who have developed indigenous and innovative techniques in agriculture without any formal [...]
The e-district program of Kerala has been successfully implemented across the state. This makes Kerala the first state in the country to have all the districts linked into the network [...]
With a population of over a billion, life is cheap in India. Not many people care about the number of casualties during child birth due to lack of basic maternal [...]
He has donated his entire salary to charity for the 35 years he worked as a librarian. His retirement benefits and his share of family property were all used for [...]
Circle of 6 is a smartphone app against sexual assault. When the Circle of 6 app saw download numbers in India rise sharply after the devastating gang rape and murder [...]
The TR35 India 2013 list recognizes outstanding innovators under the age of 35 for their continuing work in India that has the highest impact locally and globally. Since 1999, the [...]
The rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, Indonesia (as the rupiah), and formerly those of Burma and Afghanistan. Here [...]
Red brigade is a self defence group formed by women in a Lucknow slum. They make themselves loud and clear : stop abusing women or get beaten up. Named for [...]
Researchers from BIT Mesra claimed to have invented the world’s smallest super compact ultra-wideband (UWB) planar antenna that can find application in homes and the military among other domains. Academician Professor Srikanta [...]
Rahi Sarnobat on Friday became the first Indian women pistol shooter to win a gold in an ISSF World Cup after she triumphed in the final of the 25m sports [...]
Here is an unbelievable story of a woman from a small village in India who not only practices advanced farming methods herself, but also willingly trains others. Aaidala Lalitamma of [...]
The forests of Assam are home to exotic species of animals. Elrhino is saving those forests and animals by turning elephant poop into paper. As a kid, I stayed in [...]
Mysore railway station has become the first railway station in South India to receive the ‘most tourist-friendly railway station 2011-12 award’ presented by the ministry of tourism. Mysore railway station [...]
