Neeti Vijaykumar

India's holy city, Varanasi, is going to be on a cleanliness drive. The Varanasi Nagar Nigam has tied up with Airports Authority India to begin an automated waste management system, which involves sweeping, door-to-door collection of waste and transporting it to processing plants.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-educated mathematician, pioneered brilliant discoveries of theorems. He was aided by Professor G. H. Hardy in England. The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel, is a biopic on his life.

Haldhar Nag, the 66-year-old poet from Odisha, was recently honoured with the Padma Shri. His poetry has been included in the PhD syllabus at Sambhalpur University.

IIT-Madras student, Avisek Barla, has invented a new milk adulteration detector: a paper strip that changes colour when it comes in contact with adulterants.

In India, the deadly rotavirus diarrhea causes nearly 1,00,000 deaths among children. The vaccination campaign launched this March aims to curb these deaths.

IPS officer Monika Bhardwaj prevented a communal riot by denying that the murder of Delhi dentist Dr. Pankaj Narang had any communal angle to it.

The Vivekanand Education Society, which produces 100 kilograms of waste, has a zero-waste campus. While dry waste is given away to recycle, wet waste is used for composting. In the end, none of the waste generated ends up in landfills.

This year, Bollywood bagged most of the big awards, while a few gems from regional cinema also made its presence felt.

Children are an integral part of the population, and even though they can't vote yet, their voices need to be heard. Which is why these children from West Bengal have begun a campaign to reach out to political candidates ahead of the elections.

The aeronautic industry is at a thrilling phase around the world as they innovate and invent ways to reduce travel time economically. Boom, an aerospace company, is working on a supersonic passenger flight that could be affordable.