Maharashtra

One of the worst-hit districts during the second wave, Maharashtra's Bhandara has just become the state's first COVID-free district, thanks to the three-pronged strategy implementation by IAS officer Sandeep Kadam

Shamkant Thange and his family have helped revive the local 'Tikhliya' mango variety by saving grafts from the branches of one tree. His 2-acre orchard now grows 200 mango trees.

Parshuram Gangavavne won the Padma Shri earlier this year for reviving a 500-year-old artform called Chitrakathi, wherein musicians and instrumentalists use voice modulation to narrate epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata. But do you know why Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj found this art especially useful?

Dr Varad Giri is a herpetologist who has created hundreds of citizen scientists by helping them discover new species of amphibians and reptiles

Here's the incredible story of Keshav Pendharkar, who gave India the Swadeshi company VICCO to compete with  allopathic medicines and cosmetic products with ayurvedic products

Ganesh Kulkarni, a librarian from Aurangabad, learned how to grow vegetables, flowers at home with the help of Facebook. He now guides other newcomers in urban gardening.

Pune's iconic Aadya Amruttulya was launched way back in 1924 by a family from Rajasthan that had traveled nearly 1000 kms to set up the tea shop loved by Bollywood celebrities and freedom fighters

Bhaktaraj Garje came to Kulalwadi village of Sangli district in Maharashtra as a primary school teacher but he became a hero helping to double villagers' income and amplifying water conservation

Cello Group enjoys a significant market share today. But not many might know it had humble beginnings with Polyvinyl Carbonate (PVC) footwear and bangle manufacturing unit in Goregaon, Mumbai, in 1967.

After working at NASA for 12 years, Dr Parag Narvekar returned to Nashik to launch his tech startup Sensartics. Through this, he helps farmers predict disease and rain in advance, cutting their losses