Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk

Long before Prakash Padukone became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships, Prakash Nath and Devinder Mohan flipped a coin.

The Union Cabinet has introduced a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. Here are four initiatives by IAS officers, local communities and civil society that show us how this can be done better.

Since its inception in 2015, Deep Bajaj of Sirona Hygiene has developed products like PeeBuddy, herbal period pain relief patches, menstrual cups and anti-chafing rash cream, among other intimate female hygiene products.

We speak to Vivekananda Hallekere of Bounce, a Bengaluru-based electric mobility startup, which launched its first consumer electric scooter, Bounce Infinity E1. It comes with a unique ‘battery as a service’ option for consumers.

BatteryPool, a Pune-based EV startup founded by Stanford graduate Ashwin Shankar, provides IoT-enabled smart swapping stations that swap batteries in just two minutes.

Daniel Syiem's Ethnic Fashion House has not only played a pivotal role in the revival of Ryndia silk, a traditional and eco-friendly fabric, but also ushered in a revolution in Shillong's fashion industry.

Implementing Finland’s and Estonia's ICT education model for Indian students of government schools, Payal Manan Rajpal's Robotex India is bridging the digital divide in those communities that are often left behind by our public education system.

Inspired by the message of Dr BR Ambedkar, these sons and daughters of cobblers, daily wage workers and police constables from the Dalit community, who have lived in slums and experienced poverty, are now multi-millionaire entrepreneurs paving the way for others.

IIT Madras researchers have innovated two devices -- Vibe and iGest -- by enhancing wearable assistive devices with latest technologies to empower people with hearing and motor disabilities.

Professor U Pruthviraj, the Head of E-Mobility Projects at the Centre for System Design at NITK, Surathkal, and his team of students have built the VidhYug 4.0 e-bike that forest guards can use to monitor their surroundings.