Aditi Patwardhan

Agricultural entrepreneur Yogesh Shinde is trying to reduce the use of plastic by manufacturing and promoting bamboo products through his venture Bamboo India.

The Income Tax Department has decided to make Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards tamper-proof to curb illegal and fraudulent practices in taxation and banking.

Pune-based former IT professionals, Amita Deshpande and Nandan Bhat have launched their brand Aarohana Eco Social Development, which upcycles plastic bags into beautiful handbags, purses and other handicraft items.

A visually impaired child’s wish came true when police officers of Raipur police department got her a police uniform on her eleventh birthday.

Artistic community Kommune brings together poets, musicians and storytellers from across the country with the aim of creating quality content in performance art.

Popular singer Atif Aslam has set an example by stopping mid-concert after spotting an incident of eve teasing in the crowd to tell off the molesters.

Activist, writer and filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan’s 2003 film Gulabi Aaina (The Pink Mirror) was banned by the Central Board of Film Certification. It has finally released on Netflix worldwide. Sridhar speaks to TBI about the long wait, his journey, inspirations, and the film he is currently working on.

The first railway station to be revamped under the ambitious project is Habibganj in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The redevelopment is to start by January 14.

Seema Kale, a traffic constable in Thane, has been rewarded for standing up to an abusive political party worker and taking action against him.

Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2016 in Mathematics for his exceptionally wide-ranging, fundamental and creative contributions to the modern number theory.