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Man made forest and a RIVER!

Man made forest and a RIVER!

[caption id="attachment_4116" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image Courtesy : India Water Portal[/caption] 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 region ...

20 social enterprises win World Bank’s $2million grant

20 social enterprises win World Bank’s $2million grant

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 and scale up their innovative business models in the states ...

Aparajita Datta wins Green Oscar 2013

Aparajita Datta wins Green Oscar 2013

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 recognition of her work in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh, ...

Solar drying of vegetables and fish bringing good profits

Solar drying of vegetables and fish bringing good profits

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 the open . This is unhygienic and takes a ...

Jai Prakash Singh : Farmer Scientist – 4

Jai Prakash Singh : Farmer Scientist – 4

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 training and have reaped handsome benefits themselves and are helping ...

Zubaida Bai – Solving a global problem with a simple solution

Zubaida Bai – Solving a global problem with a simple solution

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 healthcare facilities in rural areas. But people like Zubaida Bai ...

Kalyanasundaram – Man of the Millenium

Kalyanasundaram – Man of the Millenium

[caption id="attachment_4052" align="alignleft" width="188"] "Everything is a state of mind. Finally, what do we take with us when we leave planet earth?"[/caption] He has donated his entire salary to charity for the 35 years he worked as a librarian. His retirement ...

Circle of 6 APP against sexual assault launched in India

Circle of 6 APP against sexual assault launched in India

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 in New Delhi in December, the team was motivated to ...

MIT’s TR35 India 2013: Top Innovators Under 35

MIT’s TR35 India 2013: Top Innovators Under 35

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 editors of MIT Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose ...

History of Indian rupee

History of Indian rupee

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 is a brief history of Indian rupee composed by Aparajita Sharma ...

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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 [...]

national technology day

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 [...]

school enterprise challenge

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 [...]

Sacchidanand Bharati

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 [...]

Development-Marketplace

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

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 [...]

Solar-Fish-Dryer-50Kg

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 [...]

jai prakash singh

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 [...]

Kerala-State-IT-Mission

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 [...]

zubaida bai

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 [...]

KalyanaSundaram

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 india

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Indian_Rupee

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 [...]

eg brigade india_ leader Usha in white

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 [...]

srikanta pal

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

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 [...]

LALITAMMA

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 [...]

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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

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 [...]