Neeti Vijaykumar

Five enterprising youngsters from Bengaluru have come up with two innovative methods to reduce wastage of paper and save trees: re-writable notebooks, and printing ads on paper bags instead of pamphlets.

If you’ve ever planned to travel the world with no money, take a hint from what Anuj Khurana and Ishant Kumar have done. They hitchhiked across India, slept under bridges, gatecrashed weddings for food, and had a whole lot of fun all the while.

Four newspaper delivery men in water-scarce Kolhapur prevent residents from wasting water. Some residents sleep with the taps open, hoping to hear when the water supply begins, often leading to water wastage. This is what they do to stop it.

Five street children from Chennai represented team India at the Street Child Games in Rio. They won a total of five medals, including one gold by Hepsiba for the 100 metre dash.

Indo-Canadian Girish Agarwal scaled the heights of Mt Kilimanjaro as part of his campaign, Summit For Dignity, to raise money to build clean toilets in Indian schools.

Jagwinder Singh was born with no arms, but he does not let that get in the way of his dreams. The 23-year-old painter and one of India's top paracyclists aims to compete at the Rio Paralympics 2016, with support from crowdfunding.

In Mangalore, a mobile detection unit has been launched to combat the rising cases of malaria. The mobile unit is available on call, and provides quick testing and treatment for no cost at all.

Home to more than 2000 species of plants, three wildlife sanctuaries and a tiger reserve, the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve has been included in UNESCO's list of World Biosphere Reserve Network.

Abhishek Ray, a celebrated Bollywood music composer, is also a certified tiger and leopard tracker, a conservationist, and wildlife activist. He bought a hill, adjacent to the Corbett National Park, and turned it into the Sitabani Wildlife Reserve. Here's how he did it.

The legend of the Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram says that there were six other temples along with the Shore Temple, which were submerged in a tsunami long before they could be documented. Geologists today may have found proof that this is true.