Gujarat

For his ingenious innovation, Dr Haldar was awarded the “Biotech Product, Process Development and Commercialisation Award, 2018” byThe President of India.

But whale sharks are far off from the mainstream image of sharks. Firstly, they feed on plankton--copepods, krill, fish eggs, crab larvae and small squid or fish. Contrary to popular belief, they do not threaten humans.

On her birth centenary in 2018, Google paid a beautiful tribute to Mrinalini Sarabhai—the doyenne of Indian Classical Dance.

Indian Railways' in-house contest for the country's most beautiful station found a winner in Maharashtra's Chandrapur and Ballarshah junctions. Madurai, Madhubani, Gandhidham, Kota and Secunderabad also made it to the coveted list.

Kindness of strangers and a mother's hard work fuelled the success of Gujarat's 22-year-old Hasan Safin, who recently cracked the UPSC exams with the all-India rank of 570.

In a rare and heartwarming gesture, Gujarat man marries off seven girls from the Valmiki (Dalit) community during his own daughter's wedding to fight social stigma.

The project that Saloni has undertaken in this village is to set-up a social enterprise in partnership with an NGO, BAIF Development Research Foundation, for the tribal bamboo artists of Dang. These artists earn a meagre living by making jewellery and bamboo products, while keeping the culture alive.

Spread over pitch dark area of about 2,000 square yards, the project is the only one of its kind in the country.

To the farmers of Dhundi, the blazing sun means surplus power, plentiful water, and steadily rising incomes!

Panchot has an informal village trust christened the ‘Madh ni Pati Kutariya Trust’ which holds this land. And while the land may not technically be in the dogs’ names, all the income from the land is set aside for the dogs.