Botanical Survey of India

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.

Nearly 71 years after the British left India with indigenous plant species, the BSI is set to bring some of them back home from London's Natural History Museum!

In an age when most Indian women didn't make it past high school, Janaki Ammal didn't just obtain a PhD at one of America's finest public universities, she went on to make seminal scientific contributions in the field of botany.