Delhi

"My gardeners handed me a packet of seeds with the warning: Treated with poisonous chemicals. Do not consume directly. If these seeds were growing vegetables inside my house, how can we be sure about the food we buy from a store?"

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Dr Mani, who has spent almost four decades in the teaching profession, says, “I retire next year in October and in an attempt to do something meaningful at the time of my retirement I toyed with the idea of setting up a crockery bank in college.”

India generates about 2 million tonnes of electronic waste per year behind only the United States, China, Japan and Germany. Only 1.5 % of the total e-waste gets recycled.

Sonal attempted the paper for the first time in 2006 but could not make it to the interview round. When she wrote the paper again in 2007, she cleared it with a rank of 13.

It started with one innocuous cough in the middle of the night, waking me up, and for a moment, I was unable to breathe. I clutched onto anything I could lay my hands on as my lungs squeezed the life out of me.

Thanks to her initiative, 60 government schools in remote corners of the Spiti Valley now have access to quality children's books and fully functioning libraries! #Education

“When I was in grade 9, I started taking an active interest in working on issues around air pollution. I have worked with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Delhi Metro, and also with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on various issues pertaining to the environment,” says the proactive teenager.