Hyderabad

“Bio-bricks are not only more sustainable than clay bricks, but are also carbon sinks because they fix more carbon dioxide than they produce during their lifecycle." #IIT #Innovation

The waste management solution provided by Shruti Ahuja is helping bulk waste generators across India lower their carbon footprints and save on gas bills!

As a child, Pradip Kurbah often heard his father express a desire for authentic Khasi cinema. This month the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea premiered his film 'Iewduh'!

With climate change and rising heat waves, this is the sort of natural cooling solution that can offset the load of ACs, which leave behind a devastating environmental footprint.

"Every ingredient also has an active skin benefit. Even if an ingredient is natural but does not actively nourish the skin, we don't use it."

Once a plot of land with merely 40-50 mango trees and two huge tamarind trees, today, it boasts of more than 2,500 trees.

"As a government, you don't want to pay overtime because it's a burden on the exchequer, but on the other hand you don't hire enough people. This is Khaki-collared slavery, which we must end," says Hyderabad's Vijay Gopal, who has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court for the same.

Apart from producing 100 per cent naturally-grown and ripened mangoes that have found patrons across Hyderabad, they have also been using Subash Palekar’s Zero Budget Natural Farming Method to grow an array of crops.

Skin rashes, frequent fevers and malnourishment are some of the commonly known health problems among the Chenchu tribe in AP’s Nallamala forest. In such a gloomy scenario IRS officer M Mohan Babu and his doctor wife Dr Sravani Deverakonda are a beacon of light

Food blogger Kalyan Karmakar says, “Biryani is always Hyderabadi biryani."