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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
President Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred the first ever Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2012 on Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar at Rashtrapati Bhawan on 7th March. Since Pandit Ravi Shankar [...]
Jadav Payeng single-handedly turned a barren sandbar in Assam into a thick forest! We often fantasize about changing the world but don’t do anything thinking, “What difference can a single [...]
Aditya Yadav and Harshvardhan Pande are winners of the National Henkel Innovation Challenge 6. They will represent India in the global finals, which will be held in Shanghai and will [...]
India’s athletes put up a splendid performance in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games at Pyeong Chang, South Korea. The Winter games took place from 29 January 2013 to [...]
17-year-old Rashmi Parvathi K has found out ways to produce salt with medicinal properties from coconut palm petiole. The project titled ‘Salt from Coconut Palm Petiole – a remedy for [...]
Bikul Das, Postdoctoral Research fellow at Stanford, and his team have gained new insight on Tuberculosis (TB) that could help find a complete cure for it. TB infects nearly 2.2 [...]
Jocelyn Shiny Priscilla has won an all-expense-paid trip to New York in April 2013 to participate in the annual global gala event of the NFTE (Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship). She [...]
Dr Subba Reddy B,principal research scientist of Indian Institute of Science’s High Voltage Laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious National Research Development Corporation ( NRDC) Meritorious Societal Invention National Award [...]
Sumit Dagar, an Indian designer is developing a smartphone with tactile text that can be used by blind or visually impaired people. Sumit Dagar’s prototype Braille smartphone is expected to [...]
Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik is the only artist from India to have been selected to participate in the 40th International Snow Sculpture Contest to be held from Feb 3-8 [...]
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” ~ Helen Keller Sushmeetha Bubna does not believe in giving money or food as a sign of sympathy to [...]
Five girls from a government aided school in a little-known town panchayat in Coimbatore went to the village of Chinnakuyili trying to spread awareness about energy conservation among farmers. They [...]
Deepa Malik was diagnosed with spinal tumor 12 years ago and in August 2012, she received the Arjuna award from the president of India for her achievements in track and [...]
Reigning junior national champion Aman Indora (56kg) clinched gold as India finished third in the A Agalarov Cup youth boxing tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 18-year-old defeated Uzbek boxer Abdujabbarov [...]
National under-7 champion Divya Deshmukh once again made the country proud when she became the Asian chess champion in New Delhi on Wednesday. With eight wins and a defeat, Divya [...]
