Air quality in Delhi and many parts of north India has hit dismal levels, and is expected to get even worse with winter setting in and Diwali just a day away. While the government is taking efforts to curb air pollution, entrepreneur and ex-IIT-Delhi student Prateek Sharma has come up with a short-term, cost-effective way to …
Tired of pollution? Try IITian Prateek Sharma’s Rs. 10 ‘Nasofilters’ Read More »
For Rajagopalan Nair, retirement from the Indian Navy wasn’t the end of the road. The ex-Navy officer from Kerala went onto become a civil engineer, establishing his own firm, Hi Tech Bio Solutions, in Vasai, a suburban town in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, and developed India’s first portable biogas plant that consumers can use …
Kerala Man Makes Portable Plant That Provides 2 Hrs of Biogas & 4 Kg of Manure Daily! Read More »
Bengaluru boy Samay Godika (in picture) has emerged as the winner of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge with $400,000 (over Rs 2.9 crore) as the prize money. While Samay, 16, a student of National Public School-Koramangala, will receive a $250,000 (over Rs 1.8 crore) college scholarship, his ninth and tenth grade science teacher, Pramila Menon, who …
Bengaluru boy beats the world to win science prize, Rs 2.9 cr Read More »
She is India’s first ever female singer to win a Grammy for the Best Song Written for Visual Media award (with A.R. Rahman and Gulzar) for the song Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Tanvi Shah who began her career in Bollywood with the song Fanaa from the movie Yuva, went on to show her versatility by singing in …
Known in circles as the ‘Indian Sherlock’, Rajani Pandit has to her credit the distinction of being the first female private detective in India. In her 22 years of experience, she has solved over 80,000 cases. Mumbai: In a country like ours where investigating violent crimes is a profession that scares even the most daring of …
