Sustainability

Bharati is responsible for discovering more than 75 new species of ants from India and four new species from Southeast Asia.

Lal Ji Singh, scientist and head of the office at BSI’s Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre in Port Blair, told The Hindu that in its natural form, the bamboo species could not be used as a straw.

Sudarshana and Veena are NIFT graduates, who consciously chose to make the switch in their own lives last year and now aim to help others as well.

Even with a comfortable life in the USA, the couple has made sure they are connected to their roots and ensure that they return to their village, every year.

We talk with the co-founders of Ather Enegy to learn what sets them apart from other electric vehicle manufactures. And we have some amazing insight.s

Non-potable water is filled in the tubes after filtering with four-layered cotton cloth. The water gets heated in the stagnation mode by solar energy, making it potable.

The Adventures of Padma and A Blue Dinosaur is a book by noted children’s author Vaishali Shroff, which, as the names suggests, takes one through a gripping adventure undertaken by a young girl named Padma.

Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC), which includes one of Indian origin, have now developed a cheaper and sustainable method to build solar cells using bacteria.

The project was selected in the first phase of a Smart India Hackathon--Hardware edition--where more than 600 teams participated. The students also won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Even after changing houses and localities, the water situation did not improve, and Kalpana soon realised that the only way to resolve this, at least on a household level, was to start conserving water.